Day 4 Nice to Lourmarin

We left Nice this morning, rented a car and did the three hour drive to Lourmarin which is in the Luberon area of Provence. It was a fairly simple drive so we're still kind of talking, but it's never fun driving the autoroutes. We arrived around two in the afternoon and had lunch in the Cafe L'Omeau on the right of the picture with the red chairs. We met the people there who gave us the keys to the apartment on the second floor above the cafe with the blue chairs. Our apartment is very old and very french - we like it a lot. Plus there are Three cafes and a brasserie within 20 yards of the place. Lourmarin is a very small village centrally located in Provence and calls itself "The most beautiful village in Provence", and it can't be far from the truth. Albert Camus is buried here, but you have to find the cemetery by yourself because nobody will tell you where it is. Peter Mayle, author of a series of books about Provence, lives here and again nobody will tell you where. Last night we had pizza next door at L'Insolite Brasserie-Pizzeria and met some people from London who use to live in DC. It was nice talking to someone in english, since most people here don't. It's somewhat entertaining listening to me attempting to communicate with someone in french. Sylvia doesn't seem to have a problem watching me make a fool of myself. Tomorrow we will be driving around the area, so I suppose the only one's either of us will be talking to are french, since we probably won't be talking to each other.