FALLING IN LOVE WITH A VILLAGE IN PROVENCE AND TAKING THE LEAP TO BUY A HOME
This is the first in a series of posts about buying, renting, and selling our property in Provence. It [...]
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THE LITTLE PRINCE RETURNS TO NEW YORK
Look up at the sky. Ask yourself, “Has the sheep eaten the flower or not?” And you’ll see how [...]
NEW SHOW AT CARRIERES DE LUMIERES: BE ENVELOPED BY THE MUSIC, MOVEMENT, GLITTER, AND BRIGHT COLORS OF ARTIST GUSTAV KLIMT
What does a town do with a vast web of stone quarries with a “Closed” sign on every door? The folks in [...]
AIGUES-MORTES: SEA SALT & SEE SALT
My dear friend and fellow blogger, David of Cocoa & Lavender, is a self-proclaimed salt-addict. When [...]
LA CAMARGUE SAUVAGE
When you’ve tired of charming hilltop villages in the Luberon and swanky restaurants along the French [...]
PROVENCE ROSÉ: TASTING AND TRAVEL NOTES FROM “PROVENCE IN THE CITY 2014”
Provence—today, the very word conjures up images of sipping rosé: on the beaches of the Côte d’Azur, by the pool of a handsome mas nestled into the garrigue-covered hills in the Luberon, in outdoor cafés along Cours Mirabeau in Aix-en-Provence, with bouillabaisse in Marseille’s vieux port, and, for some folks, in yachts docked at St. Tropez. Mon dieu, rosé was born in Provence and, well, bred there [...]
MARTIGUES—THE VENICE OF PROVENCE—IS A PICTURESQUE STOP FOR LUNCH & A STROLL
Martigues was a magnet for painters in the 19th- and early 20th-century. Painters from the schools of French [...]
ROUSSILLON: BRING YOUR CAMERA, PAINTBRUSHES, AND BASKET FOR THE MARKET
Roussillon is designated as one of “Les Plus Beaux Villages de France,” and with good reason. Its [...]
SACHA LICHINE TALKS ABOUT MAKING ROSÉ IN PROVENCE AND WE TASTE HIS WINES…including the just released 2013 Whispering Angel
Sacha Lichine, the man behind the wine at Château d’Esclans, was in his old stomping grounds this week. In Boston for the city’s Wine Expo, I caught up with him at the Seaport Hotel where he was hosting a seminar on—guess what—the four tiers of luscious rosé [...]
AUPS TRUFFLE FESTIVAL: MEET THE BEST TRUFFLE DOG AND THE CUTEST TRUFFLE PIG
I am immensely grateful to Pamela J. O’Neill for her reporting and photographs of this event. Aups, the [...]
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