Andy Rodker's photos with the keyword: Vaucluse

Saint-Léger-du-Ventoux

Where I used to stay in the summer as a teenager. I was very fortunate with my school French exchange partner!!! This was his family's summer holiday home here in Provence. (We are still in contact!). Look on the satellite map for an idea of its size

I stayed here one summer. No electricitiy, except I could get music from a cassette player running off the car battery. Food cooked on the open hearth and water from a well a few hundred metres away. Idyllic then. It wouldn't suit me now of course! The map shows houses all around now but this little cabin is still there, I'm pleased to see.

Where I used to stay in the summer as a teenager. My school French exchange partner's family converted this huge farmhouse into their holiday home. I was very fortunate! They told me that the whole family (it was a large one) camped in the fields here every holiday in the 50s and 60s and gradually transformed it from a ruin into what you see here. They were still working on it in 1972 but they finished during the 70s and I last saw it in 1983. This is near St-Léger-du-Ventoux, in the valley of the Toulourenc and just in the département of Vaucluse, on the border with La Drôme. From a slide

Taken with my trusty old Russian 35mm on my very first day of rock climbing aged 14! A scanned slide. Down below are the famed vineyards of Gigondas.

In the Enclave-des-Pâpes.