Category: Travel Posts
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Guest Post… The Best of the Vaucluse
Bonjour from a cool South of France. It’s been quite a busy week with a quick trip to Paris for a work training that has me dreaming of the next visit the City of Light. Between a brief afternoon spent wandering the “food hall” at Galeries Lafayette, and furtive glances in pastry-shop windows on my…
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15 Things to Do in Provence… in the Summer
On the roads and in backyards all over the South, you can hear the distinct “chirp” of the unofficial mascot of Provence – the cicada (le cigale). And as anyone will tell you, it’s not officially summer in the South of France until that first tsi tsi tsi rings clearly through the air. And foolish…
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The Beauty of Porquerolles Island
Living abroad is a funny thing. At first it can all seem like a permanent vacation in which you’ve somehow managed to land the starring role in the docu-drama, I Live in France, Isn’t that Crazy? Slowly, things start to take shape – you make friends, get a job, and can order macarons at the…
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Wine-Tasting in Corsica at Clos Capitoro
If I’d been asked a few years ago to make a list of travel destinations I knew little or nothing about, Corsica would have been quite near the top. There are certainly more exotic places – China, India, and surely many places in the Pacific Islands – but they seem more “accessible” to the travel…
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Visiting the Calanques at Cassis
There are some places in the south of France that are so beautiful they make for a pinch-me-is–this-real kind of experience that you will not soon forget. The Calanques of Cassis are such a place, and should be put at the top of any visit. If you’ve ever even touched a guide to Provence, it’s more than…
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