Our days in sunny Provence came to a close in the lovely way that they began. We spent our last full day exploring some of the smaller towns near where we were staying. That is, after our daily stop at the boulangerie for a brioche or eclair and before our daily swim in the pool. Y’know, Provence priorities.

We first headed to Orange to check out the Roman theater. It’s still a working theater and they were setting up for a show while we toured the panorama. It was pretty cool to explore a theater that has been showing performances for nearly 2,000 years.

One of our strongest memories of this day will be the Mistral winds, which came up in force that day. It was a little freaky to be so high in the air with gusts of winds blowing at you. But we all survived and made our way to lunch in a cute little plaza.

We drove up to Fontaine-de-Vaucluse to check out a little town that a friend told us about. The town was up tucked into the side of a cliff in the Luberon region. It was as gorgeous as advertised (if a bit touristy) and we walked up the path to see the headwaters of the river come out of the rocks.

Good hikers, on every continent.

The water was really that tourquoise. It was unreal.

Our sixth day was sadly our last day in Provence, for now. I think we all plan to come back at some point since we were so taken with the region. But we made our way to the train station for another travel day. The train took us to Paris for the last leg of our McFourson’s European Adventure.