December Trip to Provence

December 6, at 3:35 pm I fly out of SFO to PAR/CDG, and in 11 hours I am in Paris,
at 1135 am. I catch the TGV (Bullet-train) and in 2 1/2 hours, I am in Avignon.
And, just outside of the new Cortine TGV station I pick up a Citroen C3 1.4, and
drive to Apt/St Saturin les Apt, in about 45 minutes.
Then I plan to check out 'yearly-rental' maisons, and about twenty small villages, nearby (that Marie Gabrielle recommended, she has Watercolor classes, each year, in most of them, she, is also, my landlord.) I am going to buy a good, used bike, (did this 3 years ago, also, - this time it will be at least twice as good as that 03 bike), take some pictures, eat at some good restaurants, shop at the 'Farmers/Village Markets', check out 10 or so of 'my favorite' villages, look at a local French-immersion school in St Sat, spend a couple of days in Paris, and fly home. I think it is mostly, "a get-organized" kind of trip, for all the future trips of 07.
There are, only, two, sort of, bad things: December doesn't have 'real-good' weather, and the "Euro" is above 1.30