Tag: Travel Tips
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Walker’s Provence… Review + Giveaway
This summer, amid beach days and a bit too much Rosé, we’ve started to explore different “off the beaten track” areas in our region… on foot. In my city-days, I was never much of a walker. Besides rushing down the street to grab my morning cup o’ Joe at Starbucks in sunny SoCal, or shuffling from…
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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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My Provence: An Interview with Philip Haslett of Unique Provence
For the second interview in the My Provence series, I was very happy to be connected with Philip Haslett, a man who seems to be living the Provençal dream to the fullest. Having lived in the South of France for six years, Philip is also the director of Unique Provence travel and tour company. Before he started traveling…
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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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What to see and do in… St. Tropez
On what was to be our fourth trip to the most famous of all Provençal villages, I was determined to get our weekend visit to St. Tropez “right”. Past trips had been memorable for all the wrong reasons… including one ill-timed winter outing where we were whipped-about by Mistral winds & doused by rain. A couple of…
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