{"id":10237,"date":"2015-07-24T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oreccy.pl\/likethis\/?p=10237"},"modified":"2018-01-23T18:17:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T17:17:25","slug":"provence-day-2-lavender-and-ochre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/likethis.oreccy.pl\/?p=10237","title":{"rendered":"Provence Day 2: Lavender and Ochre"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nMission completed. Lavender fields: check \ud83d\ude42
\nOur main goal of a trip to Provence was to see the lavender blooming.  In the end, this is the main attraction there. So our first tourists’ steps headed to Abbaye Notre-Dame de Senanque. The view you see above appears in most of the postcards sent from here. No wonder… \ud83d\ude42 Although we were a bit late to see the lavender in full bloom it was still pretty. We also made a walk in the abbey but to be honest – without the violet frame it would have been a bit boring.<\/p>\n

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\nWe made a stop in Gordes where I discovered my utter love to lavender ice cream. I ate at least two boules of them every day throughout the whole visit. Even now, when I think of them, I start drooling and wish I was there again.<\/p>\n

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\nOur next destination was Village des Bories –  beehive-shaped stone huts that date back to the Bronze Age (and have been restored some time ago). A short 30-minute walk around the settlements and we’re off to the next place – Lavender Museum.<\/p>\n

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\nOk, so there was a lot of lavender that day. But what not many know, Provence’s treasure is also its ochre industry. Ochre is a pigment used in all sorts of products. Starting from rubber, ending with cosmetics. To be honest, I never heard of it earlier so I didn’t know what to expect but when we visited ochre trails I was simply stunned. The three ochre-connected places we visited were the most interesting to me from the whole trip. First on: Rousillon.<\/p>\n

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\nIt’s worth mentioning that these photos were not retouched. The landscape was simply like out of this world. The soil was red. Like… red red red. Check out this (untouched) photo:<\/p>\n

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\nCan you see the colour of the soil? Amazing! We made an hour walk around the Sentier des Ochre and then we headed to Rousillon which was … wait for it … red too \ud83d\ude42 Truly amazing place – worth paying a visit.<\/p>\n

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Mission completed. Lavender fields: check \ud83d\ude42 Our main goal of a trip to Provence was to see the lavender blooming.  In the end, this is the main attraction there. So our first tourists’ steps headed to Abbaye Notre-Dame de Senanque. The view you see above appears in most of the postcards sent from here. No … Czytaj dalej \u201eProvence Day 2: Lavender and Ochre\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,29,33,36],"class_list":["post-10237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii","tag-cities","tag-france","tag-nature","tag-provence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/likethis.oreccy.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/likethis.oreccy.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/likethis.oreccy.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/likethis.oreccy.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/likethis.oreccy.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/likethis.oreccy.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11432,"href":"https:\/\/likethis.oreccy.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10237\/revisions\/11432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/likethis.oreccy.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/likethis.oreccy.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/likethis.oreccy.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/likethis.oreccy.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}