Tradition

South of Arles on a small canal is a famous bridge: Pont de Langlois remains almost as Vincent Van Gogh would have seen it in 1888. Moved from its former site, today it's off a secondary road and fairly difficult to find. The air is full of lavender and asparagus. Ripening sunflowers nod like happy-faces. Black cypresses -- those expressive exclamation points in the Provençal landscape -- bow to an unseasonable mistral...

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