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Inspire · Provencal History & Traditions · Sue Aran

Gypsy Pilgrimage to Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in the Camargue

March 4, 2022

I find myself increasingly comfortable listening to conversations I don’t understand. Throaty vowels, rusty consonants, over half a dozen languages being spoken at once; French, Spanish, Catalan, American, Austrian, Italian, Romani during the Gypsy Festival, Pélerinage Gitan, in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. Listening with our minds instead of our hearts, language often limits the art of being human.

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Provence WineZine · Taste · Wines and Spirits of Provence

Vacqueyras Rhône Valley Wine Pairing

March 2, 2022

After a long year and a half, our good friends and neighbours Ursula and Bob returned to the neighbourhood from their other home is in upstate New York, in the Catskill Mountains. It’s nice to have them back. We had them over to dinner to celebrate their return and wanted to share a bottle of

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Explore · Paul Shawcross · Road Trips South of France

How to Spend 2 Days Driving Around the Idyllic Luberon

February 25, 2022

Mountains, Old Abbeys, Pretty Villages and a Roman Bridge The Luberon in the Vaucluse boasts many charming villages, four of which are classified as Plus Beaux Villages. Moreover, there are wooded hills with plenty of good walking, great markets, excellent restaurants and a producer of quality wines—all in this relatively unspoiled corner of Provence. While this

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Explore · Renata Haidle · Villages Towns and Cities

Why I’m Heading Back to Avignon, France

February 23, 2022

Back 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

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Beef · David Scott Allen · Main Course · Provencal Recipes · Taste

Winter Meals Braised Oxtail with Potato Purée

February 21, 2022

As the weather in the Sonoran Desert finally cools down, the morning temperatures are just low enough to use the fireplace. Once winter arrives, I  look forward to that first fire and spend all morning staring into the flames. Along with those indolent desert winter days come the addictive comfort foods of the season. That’s

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Explore · Keith Van Sickle · Villages Towns and Cities

Arles or Nîmes Where Best to Visit Roman Provence?

February 18, 2022

Roman Provence Way back around 50 B.C., Julius Caesar conquered Gaul (now France), and the area remained part of the Roman Empire for centuries. As a result, Roman ruins are all over France, but the best ones are in and around Provence. In fact, ‘Provence’ comes from the Latin ‘Provincia Romana,’ the name of the

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Artists Inspired by Provence · Inspire · William Adams

Searching for Cézanne at the Gardanne Sunday Market

February 15, 2022

The Gardanne Market It’s Sunday and I’m Heading to the market in Gardanne. It’s a cold, grey, wet morning — brumeux. I arrive at about 8:00, just as the market is beginning to open and park the car at the head of Boulevard Carnot, directly across the street from the massive Alteo aluminium factory. I’m

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