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An Afternoon in Lourmarin
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An evening stroll in Aix-en-Provence
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Back in Aix-en-Provence again, our home away from home
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By now, our third stay in the second-floor apartment of the solid house our landlady’s grandfather built early in the last century, Kathy and I feel as much at home here as in Lexington. Perhaps more so. Life’s cadence in Aix has a simplicity like no other — the 7-minute walk to the boulangerie for…
FollowDevon in Provence
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Farewell Again to Aix, Our Old and Increasingly Familiar Friend
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We head home to Boston Saturday, and some of my students reiterated after our game of petanque this evening that they just don’t want to leave Aix-en-Provence yet. My friend Tom, who joined us for our middle week of three, wrote that this was one of the best short vacations he’d ever taken. He promised…
Pavillon Vendome in Aix: Knowing It’s Near the Street Where We Live
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Market Day in Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
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Hiking Beneath the Cliffs of Provence’s Mont Sainte-Victoire
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“I don’t want to talk to the person who is going to die in approximately 5 minutes,” Devon said, giggling. That would be me. I’d just slipped, bum knee and all, on the way down from Oppidum d’Untinos, the Roman ruin that we’d hiked to above Maison Sainte-Victoire. And Devon, our 8-year-old grand-daughter, was ragging…
The Magic of Aix-En-Provence
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Nowhere else other than Aix am I able to live so completely in the moment. Perhaps it’s the 35-minute walk each morning down narrow streets to the international school at which my students are studying. It leads me past street signs with exotic names (we live on Avenue d’Indochine), past a restored chateau built for an…
A Geography Lesson on Foot in Aix-en-Provence
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