Carolyne Kauser-Abbott · Explore Travel to France Health Pass Need to Know July 21, 2021France is implementing a new health pass if it wasn’t hard enough to keep track of the Covid-19 variants, infection surges, and colour-coded travel restrictions. Effective today, the “pass sanitaire” (health pass) is a requirement for anyone (18 years and older) for entry into locations with a capacity of more than 50 people – museums, …Continue Reading
Barefoot Blogger · Explore · Villages Towns and Cities Only One Day to Spend in Aix-en-Provence November 29, 2018Aix-en-Provence in One Day It’s surprising to me that when people come to Provence, their tours are often so short. Travelling from the Côte d’ Azur to Marseilles, to Aix-en-Provence, to Montpelier, to St. Rémy, to the Luberon, to Avignon, and all the quaint villages in between is a pretty tall order. One destination that …Continue Reading
Explore · Renata Haidle · Villages Towns and Cities Why I’m Heading Back to Avignon, France February 23, 2022Back To France 22 months. 22 months of uncertainty and worry, of hopes that were dashed, of plans that didn’t come true. 22 months of maybes and if onlys. 22 months of a feeling I ended up calling traveller’s despair. The gnawing fear that France, like the rest of the world, would change, that things …Continue Reading
Barefoot Blogger · Explore · Villages Towns and Cities Arles: Feria du Riz Food and Fashion September 19, 2014Just tell me there’s a bullfight close to Uzes, and I’m there. As usual, there’s always a party that makes the corrida even more fun. Arles, a town less than an hour down the road that’s mostly famous for being one of Van Gogh’s “hangouts”. The Feria du Riz, the annual Rice Harvest Festival, celebrates …Continue Reading