Devon in Provence

by Slowlanefrance • May 29, 2016

And, of course, had yet another ice cream.

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Farewell Again to Aix, Our Old and Increasingly Familiar Friend

by Slowlanefrance • May 26, 2016

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

by Slowlanefrance • May 26, 2016

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Market Day in Isle-sur-la-Sorgue

by Slowlanefrance • May 24, 2016

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Hiking Beneath the Cliffs of Provence’s Mont Sainte-Victoire

by Slowlanefrance • May 20, 2016

“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

by Slowlanefrance • May 14, 2016

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…