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A verbose travel blog with unique insights and comments on some popular European travel destinations (and some off-the-beaten-path places). Initial entries on Provence, France. Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Avignon, Montpellier and more!
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Happy Face Travel Place @happyfacetravel.bsky.social · Jul 25
This is Grote de la Salpetriere near Pont du Gard, Occitanie, Sounthern France. Pretty neat.

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#France #Occitanie #Provence #SouthernFrance #Blueskytravellovers #TravelEnthusiasts✈️🗺️ #Nimes #Pontdugard #Occitanbluesky!
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"As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young." Jan Steen. Mauritshuis. #hague. #Mauritshuis. #Dutch #Holland.
November 16, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Cool old-school graffiti on Pont-du-Gard, Occitanie, Southern France. There are a bunch of these all around the structure all dated in the 18th & 19th centuries.

#Southernfrance #travelblog #France #Pontdugard #Nimes #Occitanie #TravelEnthusiasts✈️🗺️ #blueskytravellovers
Carving in a stone wall of a masonry hammer with a name and a date. Carving in a stone wall of a masonry hammer with a name and a date. Carving in a stone wall of a masonry hammer with a name and a date. Carving in a stone wall of a masonry hammer with a name and a date.
July 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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This is Grote de la Salpetriere near Pont du Gard, Occitanie, Sounthern France. Pretty neat.

Read about it and more at www.happyfacetravelplace.com/post/provenc...

#France #Occitanie #Provence #SouthernFrance #Blueskytravellovers #TravelEnthusiasts✈️🗺️ #Nimes #Pontdugard #Occitanbluesky!
July 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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A beautiful Saturday March Morning in Avignon. Place d'Horloge. Read about this and more at www.happyfacetravelplace.com It's fun! pretty pictures too!

#Avignon #provence #southernfrance #travel #travelenthusiasts✈️🗺️ #France
A French plaza with merry-go-round, cafes and old buildings. The trees have no leaves and the sky is very blue.
July 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Les Baux-de-Provence.

Read about our recent visit to this marvelous city on a hill in Provence, France.
#provence #livinginprovence #blueskytravellovers #Travelenthusiasts✈️🗺️ #baux-de-provence #France

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A stone village with cobble streets and stone buildings. Flags fly from the building to the left.
June 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Fontaine Nostradamus and Nostradamus' birth home, Saint-Remy-de-Provence. Read about our exploration of Saint-Remy and Les-Baux-de-Provence in the newest entry on Happy Face Travel Place.

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A fountain with a bust of Nostradamus on top. Water spigots emerge from the mouths of five mystical creatures below the bust and there is a large, half-circle basin at the bottom An old, stone French home on a cobblestone street. A placard about the door identifies it as the birth home of Nostradamus.
June 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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This dragon is doing some harm to that fella. This carving graces the pointed arch portal of Saint-Trophime Church on Place de la Republique, Arles, Provence, France!
#Arles #provence #travelfrance #travelenthusiast✈️🗺️ #france

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A medieval stone carving of a dragon eating a person. The person in laying on its side with arm inside the dragon's fanged mouth. The dragon has a large clawed paw on the side of the person and on their face, making large gashes in both.
June 20, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Water wheels are neat. Where is this one? Check out the new blog post at Happy Face Travel Place and find out! YAY water wheels! #Travelfrance #TravelEnthusiasts✈️🗺️#Avignon #Provence #LivinginProvence #France #Francevacation

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June 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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These two guys are holding up a balcony with their heads at the same time their loin cloths are slipping dangerously low. See my blog to learn more!

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#traveltrance #Marseille #Aixenprovence #livinginprovence #blueskytravellovers #Travelenthusiasts✈️🗺️
A French doorway with the words "Tribunal de Commerce on the door." There are two bas reliefs of men on either side of the door, shirtless wearing only loin cloths and holding up a balcony. Their pubic hair is showing.
May 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Where is this creepy doll and what does it want? #aix-en-provence #livinginprovence #travelfrance #France #travelenthusiasts✈️🗺️
A child-sized doll holding a Christian cross. The doll is wearing a dress and in bare feet. It looks like a little girl.
May 11, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Fontaine Mousse spits at person trying to video record. A malicious action or the Mistral being wicked? You decide at:

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#Aix #Provence #travelenthusiats #France #Marseille #livinginprovence ✈️🗺️
May 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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The last entry on #Marseille for our amazing trip through #Provence and Occitainie. #France #Travelfrance #Livinginprovence

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Provence and Occitainie: Day 3, Part 2
Marseille: Brass Bands, Mass Protest, Sea Crossing, and My Cheese…
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May 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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April 27, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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New blog entry! Day 3 of exploring beautiful #Marseille in Provence, France. Canebiere, Palais Longchamp, Noailles, Frioul Islands and more! Come along and enjoy the journey!

Next posts: More Marseille & Aix-en-Provence! Art, fountains, dining and more!

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Provence and Occitainie: Day 3, Part 1
Sea Crossings, Brass Bands, A Massive Fountain, A Mass Protest, and My CheeseSaturday morning in Marseille began much the same way each day would begin on this trip: I would wake way too early, get to...
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April 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Day two in Marseille! Massilia was wonderful! And you should read why! Happy Face Travel Place is the place to read about Marseille. Cool Art, the seaside, great views and bus rides! Marseille!

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Provence and Occitanie: Day 2, Part 1
Bus Rides, Ex-Votos, A Really Old Abbey and an Arc…
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April 20, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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The first post in what I hope to be many on my new travel blog, "Happy Face Travel Place."
This is about first impressions of Marseille, Provence, the South of France. There will be more to come about Montpellier, Avignon, Arles, Camargue, etc. Enjoy!

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Provence and Occitanie: Day 1
Arriving in Marseille was unlike touching down in any other place…
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April 20, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Hi! I just created a travel blog. Hopefully my insights & commentary will add something fun & different to the travel blog landscape.
Initial posts on Marseille & Provence, France. Upcoming on Montpellier & more. #Marseille #Provence #France #Travel

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Provence and Occitanie: Day 1
MarseilleArriving in Marseille was unlike touching down in any other place. I had been planning this trip for literally 10 months. I concocted an itinerary, worked it, reworked it, planned daily route...
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April 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM