Pasta, usually tagiatelle, with salmon in a rich cream sauce is a traditional dish in Arles.
Photo of the Day: Saint-Trophime Cloisters
The light streams through the columns making it a high contrast environment, a perfect one for thought and contemplation on the abstract spiritual concepts of light and dark.
Photo Of The Day: Saint-Honorat In Les Alyscamps
Inside, the church was cool in comparison to the growing heat outside. Even though the space was in better shape than the last time I visited it, and more inviting to visitors, I was still alone in my visual research.
Photo Of The Day: Arles Saint-Trophime
This photo, although not perfect from an editorial perspective, was caught perfectly as the man on the bicycle passed by the church just as I clicked the shutter.
Photo Of The Day: Arles Green Shutters
Arles is a painterly place. More noticeable on the back streets, in the landscapes, or even in the cafes, which are all affected by the light and the color of the south.
Arles Restaurant and Cafe Recommendations
Provencal cooking is a wonderful sunny melange of French and Italian cooking [...]
Les Alyscamps
Walking down the wide, poplar tree-lined path that leads through what is now a sort of jardin, I couldn’t help but notice that the place had not changed in the hundred years [...]
Cafe de Van Gogh
My table this night is almost the same table that I sat at when I first visited the cafe four and a half years before. You can see it, it’s the one with the waiter in the painting.
Passing Time in Arles
There was something delightful about Arles. It wasn’t just in the air. It was in the color, of the stone, of the paint on the buildings, in the landscape of the city. The smell. It felt old. It felt gnarled. It felt lived in. It felt as if it knew life, knew what it was, really.
