Expat Living and Real Estate · Guest Post · Living in Provence Aix-en-Provence Roadworks Building for the Future July 6, 2018The town is at a perfect storm of roadworks right now, according to La Provence, (le chantier est a pleine puisssance) but they say that things should start to improve from here on. Work on the 7.2km Aixpress bus-route is taking place along its full length, the restructuring and pedestrianisation of the ‘troisplaces’ are ongoing, and a …Continue Reading
Artists Inspired by Provence · Guest Post · Inspire Why Visit Fascinating Biot Museum and Glassworks October 3, 2019Biot Museum Have you visited the Musée Fernand Léger at Biot? It’s the only museum in the world dedicated to this major 20th-century artist who lived and worked in the town. It is also one of the few Musées Nationales de France dedicated to a single artist. Purpose-built and spacious, its white walls and huge windows …Continue Reading
Guest Post · Learning French The Art of Learning French in Aix en Provence March 21, 2016‘L’art d’apprendre le francais’ and ‘l’art de vivre en Provence’ are combined for those signing up for courses with Destination Francais. It’s an Aix-based company started by two French teachers, tired of the classroom-based teaching methods they’d been tied to in the traditional system. They felt that learners need more information about their ‘Cours en Context’ …Continue Reading
Artists Inspired by Provence · Guest Post · Inspire New Cézanne Drawings March 19, 2015The art world in the US is a-buzz with the discovery of a Cezanne drawing and a watercolour hidden away at the back of two pictures in the Barnes collection in Philadelphia. The drawing illustrated here is, I’m sure, the side view of Jas de Bouffan with the farm buildings alongside.…Continue Reading
