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To visit France, what could be better than the small roads that avoid traffic jams and allow you to enjoy the uniqueness of each region, exploring small villages and breathing the fresh country air. From Grenoble, we arrived in Provence through the apple orchards of the 'Hautes Alpes' and then the lavender fields and vineyards of the 'Alpes de Haute Provence' and the Vaucluse. Installed in our holiday home on the plain near the old railway station at Bonnieux, next to the wine cellar cooperative, we set out to discover our surroundings ......

A beautiful rose garden is located in the gardens of the museum Geo-Charles in Échirolles. Formerly, the house belonged to the plant manager of the Viscose factory. The city acquired the grounds in 1984 and has since landscaped a rose garden and a playground for children. The museum houses the private collections and archives of a sports writer and columnist known as Géo-Charles. Although you may be disturbed by noise from the nearby motorway, a visit to the Rose Garden is well worth the trip. But here, you can have a quiet visit.

The tramway from 'La Tour du Pin' to 'Les Avenières', lasted only 26 years, but we can imagine in the early twentieth century the importance of this lifeline for these isolated rural communities at the time. The tramway joined the PLM railway station 'La Tour du Pin' to the CEL railway station 'Les Avenières' with an extension to the town center.  This was a distance of 17.5 km. Travel time was, if all went well, 1h20min, only 13 km per hour. With some tight curves and some quite steep slopes, the journey was not easy, we will look at it station by station. (10 pages)