Explore · Jemma - French Lessons Grab Bag: Bizarre Summer in the Côte d’Azur September 13, 2016Contributor blog post by Jemma: It has been a bizarre summer. Security problems, and all their cultural complications, have meant that the Summer of 2016 in the Cote d’Azur has been more than a little off. Bookings and revenues have plunged 10-15% across the region since the Nice attacks in July. Significant but not disastrous,is …Continue Reading
Carolyne Kauser-Abbott · Explore · Locals Travel Tips Discover Provence Top Picks from a Traveller May 4, 2015Claire McAlpine is a mother, a wife, a reader, a writer and the owner of Flairesse a massage and aromatherapy practice. Claire considers herself a citizen of planet earth, which makes lots of sense after you consider her life filled with relocations since the age of 13. Please read the rest of her interesting expat …Continue Reading
Barefoot Blogger · Explore · Locals Travel Tips The Simple Ways Tourists Make the Best of Hot Weather July 14, 2015For days the temperature has hovered around the ninety degree mark in Uzes. Next week, they say, it’ll hit ninety-nine. For those who live in hot-weather areas around the world, ninety degrees is not so bad for summer. In France, when it’s this hot, it breaks records. Century-old buildings with thick walls …Continue reading here…Continue Reading
Explore · Our House in Provence Sunflower Fields are Special Places of Beauty in Provence October 13, 2017Contributor blog post by Michel: Friday, July 21, and we were on the road to find a good vantage point to watch the Tour de France near Lauris. As we drove toward the town of Orange to get on the A-7 autoroute, we came upon a huge field of sunflowers. There is nothing Shirley likes …Continue Reading
