Tag: Travel
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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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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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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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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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