It was another beautiful weather, and we got a good start for a walking tour of the town we have been stayed.
The coffee shop has such a cute witty name, Aix-presso. ^^
A cute little sweet shop
The colorful candy shop, La Maison Du Calisson
A fruit paradise here
This store has a very good selection of the summer felt hat.
The lime-plastered wall under the glare of the Mediterranean sun
Old shade trees and quaint antique buildings everywhere
Hotel de Ville(the City Hall) of Aix
Taking a good rest at Les Duex Garcons on the Cours Mirabeau
Aix is often referred to as The city of a thousand Fountains.
Posing with Darrin by the one of the lovely fountains on the Cours Mirabeau
I easily could get a nice and cool water when I felt dry and thirsty, plus it's all free.
The one of my favorite novelists, Romain Gary described his happy remembrances of the college days in Aix-en-provence by his autobiographical novel, PROMISE AT DAWN that he used to bum around the Cours Mirabeau after school and he could see many pretty girls walked around on the street like him in early 1900s. He often enjoyed bluntly looking at the Swede girl headed off to the market whom the most beautiful girl in the town, as he aggressively munched a salted cucumber leaning alone against a wall. He said that what he just wanted to do was that eating cucumbers savoring beauty of her not to ask to her 'would you like to have some coffee with me?'
I couldn't see any pretty young Swede girls on the Mirabeau street any more, but I believe Aix is still the best place to spend a leisurely afternoon having some tasty espresso(instead of the salted cucumber). (^o*)
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