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A 40 something dad of five and a half wonderful kids with amazingly different traits and temperament from whom he wants a break from at times, yet wish they never grow older.....and be with him always.....(howzat possible?)and now wishing that he can be a stay at home dad......

05 April, 2007

Vivre Provence





I got tagged by Adam whose blog I read without fail (apart from the occasional lapses). I really had to blog-hop to understand how this works....! Quite easy once you see the sample meme!

Well really, I'm off to perform my umrah (pictures above were taken last May by wifey) with parents, my aunts and uncles (18 of them) in exactly 24 days from today. Mecca and Medina really do not qualify for the purposes of this tag as I'm really going there!

Thought about where I really want to go next and few places came to mind....Santorini, region of Provence, Ubud, Petra, Ulan Batur, Jerusalem (Al-aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock to be specific), Ayers Rock, Istanbul....and many many other interesting places which will take ages for me to list down!


***Place your 2-3 paragraphs of where you want to go here***


For this tag, I really have chosen the region of Provence in Southern France as my desired destination. I fell in love with this place after reading Peter Mayle's, international bestseller, Encore Provence (of course one of his books A Good Year was recently immortalised in a movie acted by Russel Crowe).


My itinerary would be something like:-


Visiting a perfumery in Haute Provence (L'Occitane products are produced here) and experience a valley fill with lavender, sage, roosemary etc.....

Traipsing along in Provencal markets of St Remy-de-Provence, St Tropez, Arles etc sampling fresh produce.

Sampling breads of different kind from different boulangerie.

Siestas in the open on a hammock basically...do nothing!

Watching truffle bargaining/transcations at Carpentras market.

Driving around the region without any plan and just follow what your heart says!


Man, I can go on and on....But dreaming is free, right?

**Start Copy**

Proposition : Where do you want to go Next, OUTSIDE OF YOUR COUNTRY, for tourism, work, study, whatever.

Requirements: Find some info about the place, itinerary etc, pics if possible so you get MORE Traffic coming in, and maybe some people can find somewhere to go to. Excludes your NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOUR, i.e., a country that borders yours. You must register for
MyBloglog so we can blogwalk ah…..get it?

Quantity : FIVE PEOPLE.

Tag Mode : Chain Link. 15 of them.You leave 15 people and their DEEP LINK of their Blog Name and TAGGED POST and hit out for five more.

So it will look like
Adam who really wants to go on a spiritual journey
Doris who wants to go to the the Carribean Islands,
MaRLinda in Disneyland Paris
Athira Baby and her Balamory Antics


LAST EXTRA SET OF RULES:YOU MUST VISIT EVERYONE ON THE LIST!

**Add in the blog you get the tags from and tagged post.**
I am tagging the following people:

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hiyah oledi kena tag lo. Wanted to tag you lah!

Dad of 4+1 said...

Doctor-thanx for having me in mind..!

NJ@Goboklama said...

tq for tagging me but it may take a looonggg time b4 posting,beezee mah..

WAHM said...

Provence... sounds like a great place to visit. Hope your dream comes true!

Dad of 4+1 said...

Qisst - Looking forward to it!

Doris - Thanks for ur visit!

on my mind certainly constantly

on my mind certainly constantly