Geo-fail.

Well, I made it without hassle back to France. It's been great. My first night here, Michel had an apéritif at the house and (almost) all of my French friends made it. Afterwards, I went to see Oaistar in concert in Salon-de-Provence with Nolwenn, Antoine and Jérôme, which was a lot of fun.

Nolwenn and I also did a lovely scavenger hunt from geocaching.com in old Miramas (Miramas-le-Vieux). The goal is to solve the different enigmas to collect the right numbers of the lat/long. location of the "treasure." We got all the clues just fine... then we never did find the treasure at the end. :( Anyways, here are some photos from our adventure:


The first solution to an enigma--the right kind of pine... Apparently this one here is protected by the French gov't and is over 200 years old.


Me with the tree.


Nolwenn, my partner in treasure-hunting crime.


One clue told us to find the numbers that went with the letters "VC" on this one street... We couldn't find it anywhere, and finally asked a nice guy who works at the ice cream shop at the end of the street--His response? Oh, the VCs (toilets) are downstairs! Then when we explained (the poor guy must've thought we were crazy) he was like OOOOH roman numerals! ... We hadn't even considered that....we are so blond.


A view of the Etang de Berre from Miramas-le-Vieux. If you look at the circle thing, it shows you what you're seeing. Ex. straight ahead is Fos-sur-Mer.


A "post card" type photo of Olive trees then of Miramas-le-Vieux. Took this when we came back to hunt for the illusive treasure a SECOND time.


Another view of our treasure hunt. We know we had the right coordinates, but we never did find it. We even dug in this wall on the right. The boys don't believe us.