Explore · Julie Whitmarsh · Stay Fit Walking Along the Mur de la Peste from Cabrières D’Avignon in the Luberon March 28, 2018Contributor blog post by Vaucluse Dreamer: Heading back from L’Isle Sur La Sorgue market this week I thought I’d take the opportunity to stop at Cabrières D’Avignon and seek out a walk that I had heard about that follows some of the Mur de La Peste. The Mur de la Peste, which ran for over 27km …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
Explore · Our House in Provence Gordes, a Beautiful Hillside Village in the Luberon January 26, 2017Contributor blog post by Michel: Gordes is a beautiful village in the Luberon region about 1 hour southeast of our home in Sablet. The obviously strategic site where Gordes sits has been occupied since prehistoric times. The stone buildings were built against the base of the cliffs and spiral up around the rock to the …Continue Reading
Explore · Sophia van Woensel-Mose Provence: Falling for the Real Luberon August 11, 2015Before we moved to France I had read Peter Mayle’s account of his idyllic year in the Luberon region of Provence, and thoroughly enjoyed it. However, when planning our great escape from the grey-skied rat-race that is the City of London we never contemplated moving to the Luberon. Somehow it all seemed too much of …Continue Reading