• This map shows an overview of the places we visited in Southern France. Orange shows our nine-day tour while based in Palavas-les-Flots, blue our time with Andrew and Lauren based in Aix-en-Provence, and green for Kathryn's and Doug's time in Nice. The following albums show these places in more detail.

• Translation: Palavas The Waves - The Queen of beaches of the Mediterranean

• Hotel Les Coquilles, our home for nine days in Palavas-les-Flot

• The mosaic-covered stairway to the second floor, where our room was located

• 'JR', the initials of the mosaic artist. We saw much of his/her work in Palavas, but were not able to find more information.

• Our room had a lovely balcony overlooking the sea.

• The view from the balcony of our room at Hotel Les Coquilles

• The beach across from our hotel

• The sand bar on which Palavas les Flots is located is bisected by this canal which is the extension of the Lez River.

• Fishermen dock their boats and sell their catch along the canal each morning.

• Église Saint-Pierre de Palavas-Les-Flots

• The breakwater and harbor at Palavas-les-Flots

• We walked the length of the breakwater.

• This tower houses Restaurant Le Phare, a rotating restaurant where we enjoyed our welcome dinner.

• Our welcome dinner (photo from Julia)

• Kathryn's pork chop

• Doug's roast duck

• A view from the restaurant

• The two Ford vans (center and right) that carried our tour group of eleven throughout Provence.

• We watched vendors setting up for the Friday market from the balcony of our hotel room.

• We enjoyed the sights, sounds, and smells during our stroll through the market.

• We had two delicious dinners at Ty Breton Creperie in Palavas. It is a family-owned and operated restaurant. The granddaughter and great-granddaughter of the girl in the photo served us. They were delightful!

• We saw many flamingos in various bodies of water on our drives through the Camargue region on our way to and from Palavas-les-Flots. This is an enlargement of a drive-by photo.