It was spring, although the trees were not yet green. Taking a side trip out of Arles, I headed off to Tarascon and while climbing around the castle there, I discovered that there is a town across the Rhone River called Beaucaire. I walked across the bridge that connected the two towns to investigate. It [...]
Photo Of The Day: Stairs at Tarascon
Which way to go? Does one style of stairs attract you more than another? Round or square? Is the destination determined by which set of stairs you choose? I found pairings of steps like this all over France, where one set were straight and harsh and a set perpendicular to them were rounded and visually [...]
Tarascon
A water filled moat surrounded the castle, and as I walked across its bridge and through the large gate and into the courtyard, I was suddenly and irrevocably, for the time being, sucked back to the fifteenth century. That sensation comes over me often, in places like this, where history and mystery meet. But once [...]
