It’s three years since I visited Delhi Delice, so I was happy to find it still flourishing on a recent visit. It is a family-owned restaurant run by the couple Shahnawaz and Dominique. Chef Shahnawaz has previously worked in restaurants around the world, including the famous Bukhara restaurant in Aix …

Just posting an image from the current Van Gogh exhibition in Arles reminded me that the town is undergoing big changes. Van Gogh’s view of Arles; it’s hardly changed in 125 years. The Luma Foundation is building a cultural complex on the site of the former railway sheds. This art-focused …

Launched this month, the 2016 Guide Gantié How do you choose which restaurant to visit? This is a real question here in Provence with so many to choose from. So this week I talked to local writer Ester Laushway who is the Vaucluse correspondent for the Guide Gantié, the ‘little …

After a 45-year business career with some of the largest corporations in the world, Anthony Craig called it quits. It was a milestone moment when he resigned from nine corporate boards, and he and his wife relocated to Provence. Craig is now a published author, his book It’s All About Lunch shares their story of renovations …

On Saturday, we were surprised at how few tourists there were in Avignon. The Place de l’Horloge and the space in front of the Papal Palace are usually bustling with visitors, but all was quiet. Our waiter told us that it was ‘une catastrophe’. Hopefully, the forthcoming Avignon Festival will …

This book, with an initial print run of 10,000 in September, sold out in two weeks. It would normally take three years to sell such a number. It sold like hotcakes at Christmas and Hachette have printed 300,000, a record. So what is this phenomenon? It’s Simplissime, the brain child …

Van Gogh was so incredibly productive that, while in Arles and in Saint-Remy, he produced some 500 works; so it’s always seemed sad that there was, until recently, only one of his paintings in Provence (in Avignon). Two more have arrived (one in Aix and one loan in Arles), this …

If you love Provence, you will love this exhibition. Charles Camoin was born in Marseille and spent his later years living in Saint-Tropez and painting all along the Mediterranean coast. The Musée Granet’s exhibition, ‘Camoin dans sa Lumiere’, has wonderful examples of his works showing Marseille, Cassis and Saint-Tropez. This Provençal painter who …

At last a chance to try Segond, the patisserie run by Philippe Segond who is apparently the only ‘meilleur ouvrier de France’ in action in Aix. At the top of the Cours Mirabeau, it is in the building which used to be ‘Riederer’, a family of Swiss origin who had …

I hadn’t heard of Raphaël Ponson before visiting the exhibition at Marseille’s Musee Regards de Provence, but I thoroughly enjoyed seeing his work from the 19th century; it gives us an insight into the region in its pre-modern tranquility. The Vieux Port is shown as being a bustling centre this …