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Carolyne Kauser-Abbott · Explore · Guided Holiday Tours

Creative Holidays Painting Provence with Tessa Baker

November 13, 2018

An Artist in Provence Born in London, Tessa Baker’s spent her early years in the English countryside. Her creative education included Chelsea School of Art and later at Slade School of Fine Arts. Baker also studied culinary arts in Switzerland. Fast forward, she has painted for over 30 years, and her talents in the kitchen

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Guest Post · Restaurant Recommendations · Taste

Provence Living Top Picks for Restaurants in the Haut-Var

November 6, 2018

Sadly, restaurant meals do not always live up to our expectations for service, food quality, price and ambiance. We asked Susana Iwase Hanson the founder of Provence Living Cotignac for her top picks for restaurants in the Haut-Var. Why Visit Haut-Var The Haut-Var is filled with striking scenery, hilltop villages and plenty of unspoilt nature to

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Carolyne Kauser-Abbott · Inspire · Shopping & Gifts

Fall in Love in St Rémy Gift Ideas from Provence + Discount

November 5, 2018

Some of us (myself included) are fascinated by striking images on Instagram, and the Love in St Rémy photo feed is no exception. Laetitia Labrune de Luca is the founder of the company and the visionary behind an exquisite collection of products for gifts (or for personal a treat). There are lovely scented candles and

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Expat Living and Real Estate · Living in Provence · Paula Kane

Living in Provence and the Healing Power of Nature

October 12, 2018

Contributor blog post by Paula Kane: My first week here has gone by in a flash. Perhaps because summer is always like that, or perhaps it was my fuzziness and lack of focus most of the week due to some lingering vertigo. Either way, it went by quickly with dinners and lunches with friends, sunshine, bike

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Books on Provence · Carolyne Kauser-Abbott · Inspire

The Last Word. Peter Mayle’s My Twenty-Five Years in Provence, Reflections on Then and Now

July 10, 2018

Almost 30 years ago, Peter Mayle introduced many of us to the arrière-pays Provençal (rural countryside) for the first time with his internationally best-selling novel A Year in Provence.  The success of that book and his subsequent novels had many primed to book flights to the South of France. If that wasn’t enough, the scenery

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Carolyne Kauser-Abbott · Taste · Wines and Spirits of Provence

New Hoppy Brews in Brantes La Géante de Provence la Bière du Ventoux

May 22, 2018

La Géante de Provence is a new microbrewery located in the perched village of Brantes. Naming the beer might have been the easy part of a process that has taken the co-owners Rory White and Pascale Merlette-Lagarde well over two years of talking, planning, ordering and finally brewing. As brewmasters, this duo might seem like

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Carolyne Kauser-Abbott · Expat Living and Real Estate · Living in Provence

Provence Living Founder Shares the Resources you need for Life in the South of France

May 21, 2018

From the bright lights of one of the world’s biggest cities to a rural village in the South of France, Susana Iwase Hanson has plenty of experience with relocations. Tri-lingual (English, French and Japanese) and armed with diplomas in linguistics, and international business and marketing, she launched Provence Living in 2012. Susana encountered a lack

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