Postcard from Arles: La Crau and Montmajour
I wanted to go to the old ruined abbey at Montmajour, just 3kms from Arles…
Postcard from Arles: artist’s bedroom
14 September 2007
The Yellow House, where Vincent van Gogh lived in Arles in 1888 was hit in an Allied bombing raid 1944 and subsequently pulled down:
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Another postcard from St Remy de Provence
I’d made my first visit to St Remy the week before to discover places where Vincent van Gogh painted while in the asylum there in 1889.
Postcard from Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
6 September 2007
In the 119 years since Vincent van Gogh came to Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, the village has transformed from a tiny mosquito infested ba…
Postcard from Arles: the Road to Tarascon
9 September 2007
The road to Tarascon heads north out of Arles from Place Lamartine, which in 1888 was the site of Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Yellow House’.
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Postcard from Arles: an evening in Arles
7 September 2007
Vincent’s Café Terrace at Night today
I wanted to eat at La Cafe La Nuit, on the Place du Forum in Arles which Vincent van Gogh immortalised in his fabulous painting ‘Café Terrace at Night’ in 1888:
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Postcard from St Remy de Provence
4 September 2007
In May 1889, Vincent van Gogh checked in at the St Paul de Mausole hospital in St Remy de Provence, 15 miles from Arles to be treated for his mental illness. He stayed there for more than a year and completed many fine painting…
Postcard from Arles: a walk in Vincent’s footsteps
2 September 2007
Vincent van Gogh arrived in Arles in the south of France in February 1888 to seek light, warmth and colour for his paintings for many other romantic reasons, inspired by books he’d read and a quest to find scenes which remind…
