Aroma Tours Newsletter - October 1999

THIS ISSUE
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- Welcome
- New subscribers
- Mail out
- Travelers Tales
- Bali Women's Retreat
- Lost in Australia
- Previous Bulletins
- Thought for the Day

WELCOME
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Welcome to the October issue of the Aroma Tours newsletter.

NEW SUBSCRIBERS
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If you have joined us recently we would like to extend to you a hearty welcome. We would also like to encourage you to take a look at our September newsletter at http://www.aroma-tours.com/newsletters/sep99.htm which talks about our programs from last year as well as information about our exciting new programs in Turkey and Australa.

MAIL OUT
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For those folk not on the Internet we are sending out our printed brochure by snail mail this week for all of the tours. If you would like to have a printed copy sent to you by snail mail also, we will be happy to do so.

TRAVELLERS TALES
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After our tours were over in Provence Jim and I rested up at Cassis a delightful little seaside port not far from Marseille. Cassis is the home of Bouillabaisse, a typically Provencale fish soup, so we sampled our way around the village. It would seem there are endless varieties of Bouillabaisse and each version declared the more authentic than any other. After Cassis we travelled up into Haute Provence where the lavender grows most prolifically.

Driving down yet another absolutely gorgeous, winding country road, we followed a tiny sign to a beautiful old abbey set high upon a windswept hilltop. Here we found a magnificent rose garden and a chapel being restored. Definitely a long labour built on a love of things ancient. The abbey was built in the middle ages and slowly it is being restored to its former grandeur. The vault in the chapel had been completed, right down to the the finest guilding on the archetraves and the altar was made of a hand hewn slab of marble. Sitting upon it flanked by candleabra was one of the most beautiful rose quartz crystals I have ever seen.

At the opposite end, high above the chapel door was a small round window. Each year on the day of the winter solstice the sun shines through the window, pouring its golden light directly onto the altar, lighting up the rose quartz crystal. The photos we were shown of this event were amazing. Incredible to know that they worked out all those measurements in the 13th century.

BALI WOMEN'S RETREAT
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The Bali Women's Retreat will be going ahead next year as planned. We have had such great feedback about it that I can hardly wait to return to Bali next year and create yet another magical voyage of self discovery for all who join us.

"The Bali Women's Retreat was the most holistic life experience I have ever had the pleasure to enjoy"

Jennifer Jefferies Townsville Queensland

LOST IN AUSTRALIA
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One original key to the gates of the Bastille! Recently the key was stolen ( Oh dear!) while on display in Madame Tassaud's travelling waxwork exhibition down under. Happily it was handed in to a Sydney chapel a month later. I guess they couldn't find a lock that fit!

PREVIOUS BULLETINS
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If you would like to read our previous bulletins, they can be viewed on our web site at http://www.aroma-tours.com/newsletters/

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickenson
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If you have any questions about our programs, comments or suggestions for either the list or our website please contact us at info@aroma-tours.com Also, if you would like to chat with us about any of our programs please let us know how to contact you by phone.

Find happiness in every moment.

Fragrant regards,

Robbi and Jim Also, if you would like to chat with us about any of our programs please let us know how to contact you by phone.

Find happiness in every moment.

Fragrant regards,

Robbi and Jim

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