France Travel Journal. Day 12 (Sat., June 11) - Orange

It's now evening, and we have arrived in Orange.   We started the day visiting the famous Uzes marche, which is held every Saturday in the summer.  It was huge, with booths and stands and tables filling every sidewalk and square. There were many arts and crafts on display, and we bought several souvenirs.


We then headed toward Orange, but detoured slightly to a city famous for it's ceramics (not famous enought for me to remember the name right now however). Many of the shops were closed when we arrived, which was around lunch, but opened as we were leaving.  The work we saw was a marvel;  it was ceramics which surpassed craft.  Original, colorful, intricate delicate.  I'm sure Kate will add to this.


We did a walk-around of the city before dinner, and also viewed the Arc de Triomphe, one of the 3 best preserved in the world.  The colossal Roman Theater awaits us in the morning, then on to Aix-en-Provence.


But for tonight, more French jazz.


Steaphan Grappeli and Michel Legrand.


Here's snip from wiki about Legrand:


Legrand has composed more than two hundred film (including the Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and television scores and several musicals and has made well over a hundred albums. He has won three Oscars (out of 13 nominations) and five Grammys and has been nominated for an Emmy. He was twenty-two when his first album, I Love Paris, became one of the best-selling instrumental albums ever released. He is a virtuoso jazz and classical pianist and an accomplished arranger and conductor who performs with orchestras all over the world.