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How to put into words the many delightful towns and villages that you can find both here along the French Riviera and throughout Provence? Seeing is certainly believing and hopefully the articles we currently have will help you know more about them all. For many people, visiting the French Riviera and Provence is a "once in a lifetime" event. I do so hope that for those of you who can't come here and so sorely wish to, that this website, its articles, photos and now videos will go some way into making your disappointment less upsetting.

Menton, Pearl of the Riviera

Menton, Pearl of the Riviera

A recent edition of Alpes Magazine described the French city of Menton as La Perle des Alpes (the Pearl of the Alps), an interesting description for a city of 30,000 people, which lists among its attractions several kilometres of beach front and 2 ports. As you will understand, Menton is no ordinary city.

As you enter either from the A8 autoroute, or through the neighbouring commune of Roquebrune Cap Martin, you will see signs which also describe the city as La Perle de la France. So, what are we talking about?

Last Updated ( Monday, 09 February 2009 13:01 )

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Christmas is Coming to the Côte

Christmas is Coming to the Côte

Yesterday we sowed the wheat seeds that will, if we’re lucky, germinate in time to serve as a grassy mat for the nativity scene on our mantlepiece.  It’s a local, provençal tradition that signals the approach ...

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 17 December 2008 20:26 )

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The Autumn Village

The Autumn VillageThe “season” has ended, and Autumn has arrived in our village on the Côte d’Azur. Autumn in this part of the Côte is a delight. The sun is warm, the skies and the sea a deep blue. The beaches are almost empt...

Last Updated ( Sunday, 02 November 2008 09:11 )

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La Turbie

La TurbieLa Turbie ticks all the right boxes: the Romans really knew what they were doing.  And where to do it. In the Alpes-Maritimes, not far from the Italian border and (literally) overlooking Monaco, is the delightful v...

Last Updated ( Thursday, 14 August 2008 19:07 )

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Avignon

The first thing to be clear about Avignon is that it is very much bigger than it looks. It is tempting to imagine the area within the ramparts as roughly circular, but it is not. The shape is more rhomboidal, which...

Last Updated ( Thursday, 14 August 2008 19:07 )

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A Passage to Quinson

I arrived in Quinson on 1st August 2007 in a beaten-up, dirty, white transit. The van was heavily laden with as much as I could bring from my home city of Bristol in England. Possessions ranging from children’s ...

Last Updated ( Thursday, 14 August 2008 19:08 )

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Gourdon

The beautiful perched village of Gourdon is not very far from Chateauneuf-de-Grasse where Nigel and I live. Although I would be wont to say it's just a hop and a skip away (only a short 12 kms drive) I'd be best say...

Last Updated ( Sunday, 03 August 2008 13:37 )

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Julia Child: My Life in France

If, like me until recently, you had never knowingly heard of Julia Child, it will help to understand that she was, so to speak, America’s answer to Elizabeth David.  It was she who, after the second world war, introduced the dishes and techniques of French cooking to, principally, her countrywomen.  I had been aware of, but never read, her encyclopaedic work Mastering the Art of French Cooking, but could not have told you who had written it (or even that it was an American book).  In fact, Julia Child later parted company from Elizabeth David: while David went on to explore the cuisines of Italy and other Mediterranean countries, Child stuck to that of France but developed her teaching skills into pioneering television cookery programmes decades before they came to clog up our TV channels on a daily basis.

 

Sarah's Midnight Anthology

A year ago I introduced readers of this website to an old friend, Sarah Nock, who had written an insightful  –  and surprisingly funny  –  account of what it is like to suffer from Parkinson’s disease.  (My review of Ponderings on Parkinson’s is still on-site.)  Now she has published another book of a quite different kind: an anthology of verse, but one with a difference.

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