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Cassis: ‘The Poor Man’s St. Tropez’
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Sometimes Slow-Lane Travel Means Sitting Still
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Kathy and I have covered a lot of ground by car in the last week: Visits to Saint Remy de Provence, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Gordes, Roussillon, Arles, Avignon, Cassis, Mont Sainte-Victoire and Banon. Each stop has brought its own surprises — a snippet of history, a special shop, freshly painted shutters or the slant of afternoon sunlight…
Hill Towns of the Luberon, and Beyond
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A Spring Day on Mont Sainte-Victoire
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The D17 is the scenic route through the scrub pine forests along the southern base of Mont Sainte-Victoire. It’s also the only route, a narrow, sometimes single-lane-wide road with no center divide. Thankfully, at this time of year, there are few cars and, once off on the trails, fewer people. The road heads east from…
A Meal from the Food Gods
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It’s not as if we’ve been lacking for good meals here in France. Not close. In Aix, we’ve consistently enjoyed the lunchtime formule at Bistroquet, a plat du jour, dessert and glass of wine for about $22. Or we’ve relished the chevre chaud, plat du jour and absolutely divine chocolate cake at Fanny’s Bistrot Gourmand.…
Agony & Inspiration: A Gallery of Van Gogh’s Asylum in Saint Remy
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So Much Light from the Darkness: In the Footsteps of Van Gogh
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Vincent Van Gogh spent most of the last year of his life in an asylum, Le Monastere Saint Paul de Mausole, in the Provence town of Saint Remy. When he committed himself to the mental hospital on May 8, 1889, doctors noted that Van Gogh was suffering from acute mania and both visual and auditory…
Arles: City of Roman Arches, Provencal Windows & Doors
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Listening to – and Learning to Visualize – la Langue Francais
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Kathy’s sister Chris arrived Wednesday for a week’s visit. Today it poured so we stayed in town and took her to Aix’s Granet Museum. It’s actually two museums in one because of the lovely and well-curated separate collection of Swiss art collector, gallery director and painter Jean Planque, housed in la chapelle Penitents Blancs, a…
I Visit the Doctor & Other Small Adventures
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I’ve had this nasty, hacking cough for much of four weeks, since j’ai attrape un rhume (caught a cold) the weekend immediately after we finished our French language classes. I’ve tried tea, my anti-asthma “puffer,” and two kinds of throat lozenges. So it seemed time to meet le medicin, a doctor recommended by our language…