Ah, Les Baux. I fell in love with this charming spot the first time I laid eyes on it. How could I not? It’s the quintessential village perché, or a perched village, though Les Baux takes the usual perching tactics ever so much further. In fact, Les Baux was, according to Marvelous Provence, “Les Baux…
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Isle sur la Sorgue.
Oh, the treasure hunt that awaits us all in Isle sur la Sorgue! This beautiful little town sits quite literally in the middle of the Sorgue river (its name means “island on the Sorgue”) and is lovely even without being the European antiques capital. You can actually get information on a walking tour of all the waterwheels…
Arles, France, in September.
Walking Tour of Arles It’s getting real, folks. We’re going to be in Arles, France, next month. And it’s been a long time coming… Thus, with no further discussion of the reason why it’s been a long time coming because really, who wants to think about all that nonsense anymore, let’s talk about Arles. On…
Travel. Again. At last.
I’ve tried. I’ve really, really tried. I’ve tried hard to be a homebody, the sort of person who takes joy in the simple pleasures of home and hearth. And the truth is, I’m pretty good at it. I do love to be home. I love a day where I don’t have to get out in…
Scouting Trip to France: Arles.
I feel like I’ve been saving the best for last in this little post-journey exploration of the places that I visited back in September. I know of course that that’s not really true, because nearly all of the places we visited in September were pretty amazing in their own way. But Arles stood out for…
Scouting Trip to France: Les Baux, St Rèmy de Provence, and Le Vallon de Gayet.
This is part of a series I’m writing about a recent trip to France that was in preparation for a workshop I’m co-leading Sept 23-Oct 4 of 2020. You can start the series here Who Wants To Go to France With Me? , if you are thus inclined, to learn more about what we will be doing. Les Baux,…
Scouting trip to France: Gordes and Abbaye de Senanque.
Ah, southern France. Most people are more familiar with the more coastal regions, and often think of Nice and Cannes and St. Tropez when they consider heading to southern France, and indeed the region of Provence does include the department of Les Alpes-Maritimes. But for me, when I think of Provence, I think of the…
Scouting trip to France: Isle sur la Sorgue.
Lately I’ve been writing a lot about a workshop that I’m helping to plan that will take place in the south of France, near Arles, in fall of 2020. Well, just this past week I was finally able to get over there to do a little hands-on, boots on the ground sort of scouting of…
Van Gogh, Reinvention, and other meanderings.
I’ve been thinking a lot about reinvention lately. It seems to be what especially we women do with ourselves, or at least, what I’ve done with myself, what with leaving a career to have children and all. And I can sometimes get discouraged about that. But, I just finished reading a wonderful book- “Range” by…
Workshop in France: Places to Stay and How to Get There.
How to Get There: Travel to Provence will likely not be a direct flight from any US airport, but you can easily book a flight straight through to Marseille with a stop in Paris. A quick flight from Paris will get you to the Marseilles airport, from where you can rent a car and easily…
Ten Million Miles 