More Aix!

More pics around Aix-en-Provence (by the way: Aix = "Aches"):

A pig fountain throwing up water...

And lions doing the same...

Hot spring roman baths from 2 B.C....incredible....

Aix's St. Sauveur cathedral--built mostly during the 14th-17th centuries, but with a baptismal font dating to 4 A.D.

Sauveur's 4 A.D. baptismal font (more of a spa, really...the thing is huge)

a typically narrow Aix alley...THIS IS WHAT WE DROVE TO OUR HOTEL, PEOPLE!

laundry, Aix-style

more laundry

and more laundry...Aixers like clean clothes, apparently

and finally, a weird stone and green blob intended as an art fountain that burbles up the same water Romans bathed in during the early A.D. years.  Lovely, if you like potatoes.

xo
--s