Category: Food & Restaurants
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Bandol Wine-Tasting at Domaines Bunan
It’s been a week of rain, rain, and more rain in the South of France. While we usually manage to escape all sorts of weather calamities, this wave of storms is particularly strong – evacuations, floods, and a classification of alert “orange” for our department (the Var) and 10 others. So while we’re huddled-up at […]
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Fall Comfort Food at Le Clos du Père Louis
Deep in the heart of the Var, off autoroute A57 (way off), lies the colorful village of Collobrieres. Known in the summer for its growing Fête Taurine (bull festival), Collobrieres real claim-to-fame is its annual Fête de le Chataigne (chestnut festival) – 29 years and counting. While we set out on Saturday to take advantage of one fall favorite, […]
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Chocolate Festival at Belgentier
Well, there’s not too much to say about the incredible-ness that was Sunday’s chocolate festival. I think the photos speak volumes… and calories. There were a few surprises from last year though. Namely, Champagne-tasting. As if you needed another reason to make the trip? Then again, only to make sure we hadn’t “overlooked” anything, we […]
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Going “Bio” (Organic) in Correns, France
It was a near perfect day as we pulled-up to the small village of Correns deep in the heart of Provence Verte (Green Provence) last Saturday. We were, in fact, a few degrees away from “perfect” as by 11am temperatures had already reached 35° C on what was one of the hottest days of […]
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