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Category: Letters From Provence

Letters from Provence

Featured Posts, France, Galleries, Letters From Provence, Slow Lane, Uncategorized / April 24, 2020

Remembering Aix: City of Light, Laughter and Joie de Vivre

Adventurer's Index, Featured Posts, France, Letters From Provence / May 9, 2017

Back in Aix-en-Provence again, our home away from home

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 […] Read More

Adventurer's Index, France, Letters From Provence / May 26, 2016

Farewell Again to Aix, Our Old and Increasingly Familiar Friend

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 […] Read More

Adventurer's Index, France, Letters From Provence / May 20, 2016

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

“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 […] Read More

Adventurer's Index, France, Letters From Provence, Uncategorized / May 14, 2016

The Magic of Aix-En-Provence

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 […] Read More

Adventurer's Index, France, Letters From Provence, Uncategorized / May 10, 2016

A Geography Lesson on Foot in Aix-en-Provence

Adventurer's Index, France, Letters From Provence / May 8, 2016

Back in Aix: Our Home Away From Home

Adventurer's Index, France, Letters From Provence / July 14, 2015

In Aix, Emerson Students Learn Lessons of Language, Culture

I’ve been reading the reflective essays of the Emerson students I took to Aix this May. Some arrived worried about having to speak a language […] Read More

Adventurer's Index, France, Letters From Provence / June 4, 2015

Aix’s Elegant New Art Center

As a place to stroll down narrow, centuries-old streets or to shop for field-fresh food in near-daily markets, the city of Aix-en-Provence is without peer […] Read More

Adventurer's Index, France, Letters From Provence / May 25, 2015

A Moment of Respite in the Slow Lane

I confess. There have been times in the last week that I’ve craved life in the slow lane. This morning, after breakfast with my host […] Read More

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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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