Besides its pretty little towns, Calanque cliffs and beautiful beaches, the Provence offers a seemingly endless number of natural parks. Driving for not more than 2-3 hours you will pass through a multitude of diverse environments, vegetations and landscapes. One second it’ll be a curvy road winding through forests with rocky mountains to all sides, the next second you find yourself in swampy fields, not a single other soul in sight. Renting a car and just wondering from one place to the next is probably the best way to explore the beauty of this area’s natural parks.
Let’s skip the introduction of how where and when – this will follow in my next post – and get right to it: Chicago is such an amazing city and there couldn’t have been a better way to start our 3 weeks in the States.
With winter temperatures creeping up on us and Christmas – with all its hustling and gift-shopping – just around the corner, who wouldn’t want to escape onto the island and into the sun for just a little while. For my mom and I, this opportunity presented itself when my host sister from my high school exchange in Texas announced her wedding to take place on Bali. Not thinking twice about the 16-hour-long trip from Frankfurt to Denpasar, we booked our tickets via Singapore and found ourselves swimming in the ocean and wearing flip-flops in 30 degrees Celsius in mid-November.
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