Cheryl Shufflebotham · Restaurant Recommendations · Taste Visit Maison de la Truffe et du Vin du Luberon in Ménerbes January 10, 2019At the top of the dreamy village of Ménerbes within a 17th-century mansion is la Maison de la Truffe et du Vin de Luberon. Year after year, upon visiting this village, we would peer curiously through the iron gate of la Maison de la Truffe into the most beautiful, intimate garden on the side of a …Continue Reading
Explore · Guest Post · Villages Towns and Cities Bonnieux a Great Place for a Day in the Luberon March 10, 2022Discovering Bonnieux Our family first visited Bonnieux during a week in Provence in early June 2003. We stayed in a nearby village and spent a few hours in Bonnieux one afternoon. The Luberon truly captivated all three of us. The following year we returned for a longer stay—six-and-a-half months—renting a farmhouse in the countryside between …Continue Reading
Carolyne Kauser-Abbott · Explore · Locals Travel Tips · Paul Shawcross Photographer and Writer Paul Shawcross Shares his Provence November 28, 2014France got in the way of Spain. That might be the way Paul Shawcross would describe his first taste of France in 1979. His plan was to drive through France en-route to discovering Spain. He stopped at a campground in Millau, part of the amazing Tarn River Gorge. It was here that Paul says he …Continue Reading
Caroline Longstaffe · Explore · Villages Towns and Cities Spring in the Luberon Valley a Visit to Lourmarin May 15, 2018When you leave a place for several months, however much you love it, even somewhere as special as Lourmarin, you wonder. Wondering if it is as magical as the images you have so firmly imprinted in your mind. Wondering whether you’ll feel the same when you return. And then you do and wonder why you ever …Continue Reading