It was Honorine's birthday on Christmas day so Pauline and I organised a belated birthday celebration back in Avignon at our apartment. It was also their friend Claire's birthday happening over the weekend so it worked well as a joint birthday party. Everyone brought along apéritifs and we had a delightful French spread of patés and crudités as well a birthday cake I'd made that afternoon. That night they introduced me to the drinking game Picolo, an app (available in French and English) which was fun to play!
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| Birthday girls |
Early Saturday morning (British) Annie and I met up with Jean-Pierre, our Blablacar driver taking us to Aix-en-Provence. He was super-friendly, chatting away to us for the whole journey, and we arranged to get a lift back with him the following evening. We met up with the rest of the gang and grabbed a quick lunch where we experienced more of France's stellar customer service - despite being served by three members of staff they managed to get our order wrong and nearly overcharged us! After checking into our Air Bnb we spent the afternoon exploring the city and met up with Emma's boyfriend Tom who lives in Aix so was able to act as our tour-guide.
As it was Saturday night we thought we'd better check out Aix's nightlife, so after a few rounds of my new favourite game Picolo we headed out on the town. We'd realised pretty soon after arriving that things are a lot more expensive there and this was especially reflected in the €20 entry fee for the first place we tried. Eventually we managed to find a local hangout with free entry and live music! The following day was spent brunching and browsing the sales before we headed back to A-ville with Jean-Pierre.
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| Aix-cited for a night out |
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| Lovely views from the bus |
I'm currently tucked up in bed as I've definitely come down with something, although pretty impressed I'd got this far considering how many bug's I've probably been exposed to travelling from school to school up until now!
Ciao,
Katie x
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