And the travels begin!

We bought flowers at the flower market today! It’s amazing how much you can get and it’s all so cheap haha.

We’re trying to figure out travel plans for the semester and details on what we want to do for the next couple of weekends. My mom bought me these Top 10 of Provence, Barcelona, and Paris books and I was just looking through the Provence one and it is great. I’m so excited to see all this! Next weekend we’re going to Monaco (it’s a trip paid for by the abroad program). It’s just a day trip like Marseille was yesterday, but I’m really excited to see it. When we get back we’re going to climb the Mt. Saint Victoire which is close to us here in Aix. It’s the mountain that inspired a lot of Cezanne’s paintings, and it supposedly has some really great views of Aix. The kids that did this program last year said we should definitely do it. So that’s next weekend, pretty much all set to go.

The weekend after that, I think we might go to Valencia, Spain. We were looking around on ryanair and I clicked on Valencia just for curiosity sake (and Allie said that it is a really nice beach town) and the flight is TEN EUROS each direction!!! So yea, we’re definitely going there haha maybe a few times. It’s quite a bit farther south than where we are here, so it should be pretty warm. Honestly, in Marseille yesterday it was warm enough to be in a swimsuit on the beach. It was certainly seventy something degrees in the sun, and it was just the breeze that was keeping it cool. Out of the wind in those coves was just amazing. So we’re thinking that we’ll have some good weather in Spain and it will at least be as warm as here.
The next weekend is Valentine’s Day and all of us girls are thinking of spending the weekend in Paris! Where better to be on Valentine’s Day?! Especially with everyone’s boyfriends far off in the states, we might as well be doing something romantic here!
Well these are the travel plans for the next couple weeks, hopefully it works out! And if it doesn’t, there is so much exploring to do here in Aix.

P.S. We scheduled our classes so that we have nothing on Mondays and can travel longer (and hopefully a little cheaper). I got lucky and don’t have classes Friday either, but other girls do, so I’ll probably just take my Fridays and explore around Aix and the markets!