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 Le petit déjeuner des
champions ! by davequ
Hotel Calendal will serve you one with absinthe spoon, glass, sugar, etc. in the garden as an overture to your late night Arles promenade.
Recommended!
You can learn much about one of my favorite Arles beverages here:
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 Hey bro, pass the sugar.... by davequ
What in the picture looks like what might be a flock of crows in the stands is actually a group of monks from St. Trophime cloisters who snuck into the arena for about 15 minutes to just sit and enjoy it.
They didn't make hardly a sound, just sat there for a while, then filed out back to the cloister. Leave a Comment
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 El torero de Arles by agarcia
But that's the Spanish version of bullfighting. The French version is more an acrobatic (even choreographic) spectacle, in with the death of the animal is not a requirement. Whish we could learn something from our northern neighbors...apart from eating baguettes or croissants ;-)
As you could appreciate in the picture, Arles taurine fair takes place in the third week of April, in Les Arenes Leave a Comment
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 One with the ball :-p by agarcia
So when I found these guys playing petanque in a park not so different to the one I grown up, I immediately remember grandpa, and the intense look in his eyes while playing, calculating the distance to the objective and the exact impulse needed to reach the goal.
I don't speak a single word in French, but when this people noticed my interest in the game, they tried to talk to me, with signals, writing things down in the sand. And so they explained to me how the game works and many other things about themselves. For example, one of the players was 93 years old and he was still the best of them. This kind of moments, this kind of people. These are the real reasons for my travels... Leave a Comment
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 Farandole Logo by Lady_Mystique
The free broadsheet 'Farandole' gives details of everything from theatre, concerts, fairs and exhibitions to local basketball results.
You can find and pick up the free newspaper, with over 35000 entries, every month in the various business's, or tradesmen of Arles (and surrounding areas), town halls, offices of tourism...
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 Arlesian women in
costumes by Lady_Mystique
(for ticket reservations for Arènes events call: 04.90.96.03.70) These are the bloody bullfights, although Arles also holds bullfights where no animal blood is spilled.
Other Festivals you could see in Arles are:
St. John's Day (June 24th), where you will see typical Arlesian dances in costume around bonfires, and the distribution of blessed bread.
Costume Festival:
First weekend in July in the streets of the old town, the people of Arles pay tribute to their local costume. There is a religious ceremony and procession, in costume, to the Roman Theatre.
Rice Harvest Festival:
Mid September
Every two years, a Rice Ambassadress is elected in Arles.
Blessing and offering of a sheaf of fresh rice by the Rice Ambassadress. An imposing procession of decorated floats (with a prize for the best), processions in costume, cowboys, folk dancing.
This is the one I went to and it was an amazing event! Don't miss it if you're going to be in Arles at this time of year.
For a list of more festivals year-round check out the website below. Leave a Comment
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 Windows on Hot Night by LauraWest
I was in Europe for over a week when I realized --- no window screens!! This is fairly unheard of in the USA. I asked my Paris hostel roomies, from Dublin, about it. Window screens? What are those? I had to describe them, as they had never seen any before. Don't birds fly in your windows? No, never, she answered. Pretty smart birds in Europe, I said. Later, in my Florence hotel I met a dumb pigeon!! The desk clerk tried to get it to abandon the perch outside my room door, at the request of another guest down the hall, but it was "no go." It was a pretty view afterall, so was the pigeon smart or dumb? I don't know ;>)) Maybe it just wanted a comfortable hallway to spend the night! Leave a Comment
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 Map ~ Arles by Lady_MystiqueLeave a Comment
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 by davequ
.... a funny book by Peter Mayle is for anyone who loves and appreciates not necessarily the city of Arles but the entire Provence.
After two trips to the Provence I finally got around to reading it, and it has its moments in depiction of the local customs of its people. The copy I read from my hometown library also had some very good illustrations.
You can rent it from the library, lots of used copies are available on the net for ~$2, or buy a new one. I hear there is a DVD / movie now.
I enjoyed it. Leave a Comment
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 by englishchris
The main difference with the Camarguaise style bull fights is that more emphasis is given to "humane" fights where the bullfighters aim to pull ribbons from between the bull's horns rather than kill the bull. Although be warned, there are also the full monty shows where the bull does get killed (so check the programme). In the show we went to, all the bulls happilly trotted off at the end of fifteen minutes - whereas some of the fighters came away with bruises and scrapes.
I'm not keen on the idea of animal cruelty, but I try to keep an open mind when it comes to local culture, and I fully admit to loving the whole spectacle and atmosphere of this. The crowd are really into it, the fighters are really into it, and I even suspect that at some level the bulls are too! I was surprised at how the bulls limbered up, and used some pretty crafty strategies to corner the fighters.
All in all, don't go if it offends your moral stances, but otherwise - Go! Leave a Comment Other Contact: Arenes d'Arles
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