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The Signs of Provence

Posted on July 28, 2014March 7, 2018

Author Slowlanefrance

Signs sell a brand and an image (Aix-en-Provence).

But they also give insight into a culture (“Think of us, drive gently,” reads this Lourmarin sign.).

By an Ansouis parking spot: “If you want my place, take my disability also.”

Those cultural messages don’t always rely on the native tongue.. (Aix)

“Here is better to what’s opposite”” (L’Isle sur la Sorgue)

Here Cezanne painted (Aix)

Welome to a veritable artisan (Aix market)

The allure of Provence’s special marzipan-like candies (Aix)

Used book store (Aix)

Bike trail in the Luberon

Marseille’s magnificent new MUCEM, a museum of the Mediterranean

Arles billboard

Aix market

Aix market

Aix market

Aix market

Country road above Aix

My namesake! (No, I’m not related)

The headlines paint storm clouds (Aix)

Who says public bathrooms are hard to find? (Camarque)

Apt baker

Dixieland at night in Aix park during the annual night of European museums.

A sign that’s seen better days in Nice.

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I’ve never measured a successful trip by how many destinations I can circle on a map or check off a Bucket List. To me the best journey, and the best ravel, moves more like a good conversation. It ebbs and flows. It rarely rushes, but it’s also animated and unpredictable. It is filled with banter and laughter, and invites participants to linger rather than march forward inexorably like a tightly wound clock. Want to have dessert? A second glass of wine? A detour in a back-alley artisan’s shop? A pause at an overview by the side of the trail? Why not. Read more.

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