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3 days in Provence itinerary

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I will be traveling with my husband via train from Paris in May and staying 4 nights in Aix-en-Provence before driving to St. Paul de Vence. I’ll be renting a car in Aix. I put together an itinerary for 3 full days that I think will work but am open to suggestions to rearrangement of sites/drives. It may be too ambitious, but I’m willing to drop sites and just go with where the day takes me if necessary to enjoy the trip.

Saturday - arrive in Aix mid-day. Explore Aix.

Sunday - drive to Avignon and see Palais des Papes and St. Benezet Bridge. Drive to Pont du Gard early afternoon and then to Châteauneuf-du-Pape for late afternoon.

Monday - drive to Cassis, do 1-hour boat tour, short hike/walk around town, then lunch. Drive to Arles and spend afternoon/inner.

Tuesday - Aix market, then Roussillon and back to Aix for 2 p.m. wine tour.

Wednesday - leave and drive to Gorges du Verdon.
If I had more time, I would do the Côte du Rhône drive, visit more towns in Luberon, maybe the Camargue, and St. Rémy.
Suggestions welcomed. Thank you.

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I love Aix and hope you do too, I have a suggestion for Sunday that you might consider.

You don’t specify why you’ve chosen the places you plan to visit. Chateauneuf is not actually that interesting unless your plan is to visit the tasting rooms. If you’re just looking for a lovely place to stroll, you could substitute Uzes, a beautiful town a bit to the west of the Pont du Gard. I’m not sure whether things would be open on Sunday, though, which certainly could affect your decision whether to visit.

The drive from Cassis to Arles is about an hour and a half. Again, I don’t know whether you have a particular interest in seeing Arles ; if not, you could substitute a visit to the beautiful coastal town of Sanary sur Mer, east of Cassis, after driving the Route des Cretes, outside Cassis, which offers spectacular views. If time permits, you could continue east to Bormes-Les-Mimosas, too.

There are so many beautiful places to visit, it’s hard to pick.

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For CNDP I think unless you are on a wine tour for that day (and I can recommend a very good one wine-uncovered.com) you might enjoy more as a companion with PDG to go to Nimes for the Roman museum and the area there. And whatever you pair PDG with consider to invert the order. We went to PDG in August after spending the day in Nime but in the late afternoon there were hardly any other people there and the light was beautiful on the architecture.

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