Ideally located opposite the Congress Centre and 5 minutes from the city centre, the hotel ... more
welcomes you near the Camargue Regional Nature Park. The hotel Mercure Arles Camargue features air conditioned rooms equipped with modern comforts and free Wi-Fi...
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HOTELYEAR BUILT 1975ADDITIONAL PROPERTY DESCRIPTION THE HOTEL IS 1KM FROM THE OLD ... more
TOWN CENTRE OF ARLES AND FEATURES 80 ROOMS. A SHORT STROLL FROM THE CONVENTION CENTER AND ARLES MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY. RESTAURANT, BAR WITH TERRACE, CONFERENCE R...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
HOTELYEAR BUILT 1975ADDITIONAL PROPERTY DESCRIPTION THE HOTEL IS 1KM FROM THE OLD ... more
TOWN CENTRE OF ARLES AND FEATURES 80 ROOMS. A SHORT STROLL FROM THE CONVENTION CENTER AND ARLES MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY. RESTAURANT, BAR WITH TERRACE, CONFERENCE R...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Advantages: Lots of character, Roman monuments, history Disadvantages: It's a long way away
So there we are, driving south on the motorway, heading for ARLES in Provence. The weather is not too great, it's overcast and everything is dull and grey. It's a long drive and it's not made any easier by my fellow road users. Is there some sort of French custom that I'm not aware of? Is it a requirement of passing a driving test in France that you have to be able to stray over the lines at frighteningly regular intervals, usually when some good natured, happy-go-lucky proxam-like character is overtaking them. SACRE BLEU! It's not all that difficult to steer a car between two white lines along a wide and straight road.
Anyway....we survived (obviously or who would have written about it - a ghost writer?).
About an hour from Arles the skies cleared, the sun broke through and it warmed up markedly.
"There you go Mrs P" says I ...
proxam 06.10.2002 (01.09.2004)
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Advantages: decadent reading for the open hearted Disadvantages: unfinished just a taste, to tantalize and tease
could be my soul-mate. Then I go through the regular procedure known as dating. More accurately the process known as 'Trying to get a date'.
I have had my share of wrong numbers, and my absolute rejections. One man even cussed me out for sending him a love letter through locker express. Oh but only one man was the truest mystery of all.
He was Matlock, Murder She Wrote and a Nancy Drew mystery all in one. He was more decadent than a triple layer dark chocolate cake with an extra layer of c-r-e-a-m-y caramel icing. His name is Arles. Like Prince Arles and Lady Iana.
Damn he was fine. More fine than a mink coat. He was dressed so immaculately. He always had his shirt tucked in, his pants ironed and creased perfectly, and he always glowed. I mean this man was beautiful. He could make the dessert wet.
I wouldn't have noticed him. I ...
Advantages: The land, and the people Disadvantages: The Mistral!
Lovely hot, windy, passionate Arles! This town has a strong awareness of its own identity, history and heritage which includes the wonderful produce of the surrounding countryside.
Everyone has heard of the red rice of the Camargue, and the sea salt but you must also taste the black bull beef, and the tender lamb, the cheeses made from goat and ewe's milk, to say nothing of the many varieties of olive grown in the surrounding areas.
Arles has a passion for it's "bull games", a Camargue version of bullfighting where a troupe of young men dressed in white attempt to remove ribbons from a young camargue bull's horns, without getting tossed in the process. The good and intelligent bulls learn the rules of the game and become famous in their own right, reported on regularly in the local newspapers. In this French version ...
