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The Provençal Christmas Market at Château de Berne
Greetings dear readers and friends. Well things have sure cooled down here… a lot. We’d been really lucky to have sunshine up until about last week and now the real fall / winter temperatures are setting in – as low as 40° F in the morning… and, as you can imagine, that’s pretty low for…
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5 Fantastic Christmas Markets in Provence
Greetings dear readers and friends. Well, I hope this post isn’t too early… This year I am super excited to actually be celebrating Thanksgiving with a good American expat friend of mine. She’s from South Carolina, so she’s got the southern thing all figured out and I’ll try to throw in a dash of California…
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Market of the Month… Ollioules
Greetings dear readers and friends. Well, it’s been a bit of a funny spring so far in the south of France. We’ve had a lot of rain, sun, and then rain again… even up to this past week when we were hit with surprise thunderstorms. But the good news to come out of all this…
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The Sunday Brocante at Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
Greetings dear readers and friends! We’re enjoying the long Pentecost weekend over here and thought it would be a nice time to share with you another great experience I had while visiting the Vaucluse a few weekends ago. I had Sunday morning all to myself and it was quite difficult to decide how to spend my…
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Market Day in Aix-en-Provence
Greeting dear readers and friends! Well, spring is finally here, hurray! Of course winters in Provence are not as terrible as elsewhere in the world, but we do get our share of bad weather, whipping Mistral winds, and the occasional thunderstorm. So these first few rays of sunshine and blooming flowers are greatly appreciated. And…
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Market Day in Saint Tropez
Greetings dear readers and friends. Well, it looks like we’re finally seeing some spring weather come our way… it’s been quite a long, wet winter here in Provence, but thankfully that’s what makes this place so green all year round. And for all of the complaining about the long winter months in the south, a…
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Market Day in St. Remy de Provence (Guest Post)
Today we have a lovely guest post from Ashley at Curious Provence blog. Ashley is a Canadian who found herself enchanted with France, and notably Provence, after spending time traveling elsewhere in Europe – particularly her time spent studying art in Florence, Italy. In her own words, her blog is “about living and experiencing Provence…
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Market Day in Arles
Well, there hasn’t been a “market of the month” for quite some time – mainly because I think we’ve visited almost all the markets near us and we have our favorites that we go back to time and again (I’m talking about you fabulous Sanary-sur-Mer & Aix-en-Provence ). So, it was with great anticipation that…
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How to Shop at a Provençal Market
Since it’s officially spring and the time when Provençal markets are at their finest, I thought it would be a great idea to share a few ideas for getting the most out of your market experience. The following are a few tips I’ve collected over the years, and I hope you’ll share your own market “must-do’s”…
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Market Day in Carpentras
During our “mini-break” to beautiful Isle-sur-la-Sorgue we found ourselves quite overwhelmed with the number of villages to visit and all the things to see (and taste) in the Vaucluse. A stop-over in Avignon was a definite must, but after a pop-in at the Papal Palace, how best to organize our time – a mad dash…
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