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La Petite Cuisine, Cassis, France
Blog: An American in London - 30 October 2009
Less than an hour’s drive south from Aix-en-Provence is the pretty port town of Cassis, which is *not* famous for creme de cassis but which *does* produce crisp, white Cassis wines. In addition to wandering the town’s pretty lanes, admiring the town beach, and taking a boat tour of the local inlets (les calanques), we had [...]
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Parisian of the Month: Jennifer Butler
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 28 October 2009
I met Jennifer Butler earlier this year at a book signing party she graciously hosted in her lovely Paris apartment. I immediately liked her ebullience and wonderful style and we became fast friends. She is passionate about art, literature, and...
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Restaurant Pierre Reboul, Aix-en-Provence, France
Blog: An American in London - 25 October 2009
Jon and I just returned to London after a week in Provence. It was nice to get away, but the trip didn’t turn out the way I’d pictured. On the three days of sunshine we had, it was hard to relax because outside our rental house, workmen were chain-sawing the branches off gorgeous [...]
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Le Potager de Louise, l’Isle sur la Sorgue, Provence, France
Blog: An American in London - 19 October 2009
Jon and I are spending this week in Provence with some friends who have a five-month-old. We feel like we were “just” here, but really it’s been three years since our last trip to Provence, and this time we’re staying in a different part of the region, just outside Aix-en-Provence in a small, charming [...]
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Researching a Guidebook Off-Season
Blog: Tripalong - 30 March 2009
In a tourist-hot region like Provence there is one enormous advantage (bar the obvious) of travelling out of season – or rather on the cusp of the season as I have done for the past fortnight. Come Easter, this fabled part of southern France will burst into mad-busy life. But for the moment many hotels [...]
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