Category: Places We’ve Been
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Living the Pandemic in France, Part 2
This is the second in a series of posts describing our experience of moving to France just as the COVID-19 pandemic blossomed. Part 1 is here. Part 2: Lock-down Life in Beaulieu-sur-mer My wife and I moved into a little one-bedroom holiday rental in Beaulieu-sur-mer on February 13, 2020. The house was a snug two-room…
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Living the Pandemic in France
This is the first in a series of posts describing and reflecting on our experience of moving to France just as the COVID-19 pandemic blossomed. Part 1: Moving to France My wife and I began planning to move to France almost as soon as we returned home from nine weeks of exploring Provence and the…
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Lourmarin and Cucuron
In the Fall of 2018, we spent nine weeks in the south of France, mostly in Provence and the Cote d’Azur. I naively thought that I would post an article about our experiences every few days. I managed to put out five posts, all during the first month of the trip. The following is a…
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Back to the Côte-d’Azur
Hello again. A lot has happened in the world, obviously, and in our lives, since our last post in July of 2019. We had big ambitions to write something every couple of days during our nine weeks in Provence in the Fall of 2018: didn’t happen. When we got back to the States, I thought…
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Bonnieux Day 1
We arrived in Bonnieux yesterday afternoon for a nine-day stay in another Airbnb apartment. After walking around this steep hill-side village last evening, looking for a store or bar open on a Sunday evening so I could buy a couple of bottles of wine, I am sure that by the time our stay is over…
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Four Nights in Arles
We stayed four nights in Arles, Thursday to Monday. The annual Feria du Riz, a celebration of the rice harvest with music, art, and Spanish-style bullfighting, was held on Friday and Saturday. The Apartment We stayed in a VRBO apartment just outside the walls of the vieille ville (old town) on Rue des Alpines. The…
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Transport Modes
Every vacation trip requires transport: getting there and getting around. For our trip to France, getting there involved two modes of transport: air and rail. We elected to get around by car and on foot. Bicycling is also a possibility. The Flight We flew nonstop from LAX to Paris Charles de Gaulle airport on a Norwegian…
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The Bulls of Arles
The first of our destinations is Arles, a UNESCO world heritage site. We are here for four nights, staying in a lovely VRBO apartment just outside of the vieille ville (old town). We will put up a few posts about our experiences here, not necessarily in chronological order. Today’s post is just a quick gallery…
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Two Months in Provence – Recommendations?
My wife used to run a boutique tour company, taking groups of a dozen or so travelers to France and Italy and Turkey. I helped out with her last tour, to Provence in 2013. Provence was magical, and we vowed to return, just the two of us. Beginning in September, will be in Provence and…
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