Avignon

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. A Provence Travel Guide for People Short on Time We almost skipped the lavender. The plan was a lazy week of café terraces in Aix-en-Provence and not much else, until a woman at the Tuesday market — handing me a wedge of tomme and pointing at a basket of dried purple stems — said we’d be mad to come this close and not drive up to Valensole. So we did, early, and pulled over on an empty road between two seas of lavender with the light still soft and not another car in sight. That detour became the trip. The mistake we nearly made is the one this Provence travel guide is built to stop you making. ...