photos de Provence

With the exemption of the beach scene which is in Villeneuve-Loubet near Nice, all the other scenes are in and around Gordes, a small city nestled on top a hill in the Luberon region of Provence, around an hour southeast of Avignon, France. I stayed with a friend of mine J.P. All the people shown here are JP's friends and family who live or spend their summers in Gordes.

This is the typical French way of spending July and August: in villas with swimming pools, sun, fun, family, friends with lots of gourmet food and wine.
Parties every night, of course.

Provence

Photos de Barcelona 2, more Gaudí

Inside Casa Ametlla



El Palau de la Música Catalana


Park Güell

Photos de Barcelona 1

Some memorable photos from my trip to Barcelona (July 31-August 15)


First two pictures are me in the Parque de la Ciutadella



Me at the fountain on the Plaza Real


Me in an inner courtyard of a former monestary now an art center for the University of Barcelona.

This summer in Barcelona, there is an exhibition going on: Barcelona back then. They take old photos, blow them up huge (as you see here on the Plaza San Jaime near the cathedral) and put them on the street so you can stand behind them for an odd effect of old superimposed on new. It's better to be there. Right here is a motorcade process with Generalíssimo Franco in the 1960's.

View of the Eixemple neighborhood from the Plaza de Cataluña.


The next two photos are in the Eixemple on Manzana de la Discordia, a block where there are several famous modernist buildings by Antoni Gaudí, of which Casa Batlló and Casa Amatller.