Popular wine tour operator, Wine Lovers Tours , has recently announced its 2010 wine and food tour destinations with excursions to Greece, Turkey, Piedmont (Italy) and the Rhone Valley and Provence in France. Led by Vin Marottoli, the company has been organizing food and wine tours to amazing destinations throughout the world for 28 years. Wine Lovers’ track record speaks for itself: over 80% of participants are repeat travelers, partaking in often over 15 separate tours each – of which
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AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, Sept. 29, 2009 –INSIDE Contactless, the world leader in advanced open-standard contactless chip technologies, today announced a technology partnership to provide critical NFC technology to Paris-based MobiNear, a world-leading provider of proximity mobile communications solutions. Through this cooperation, INSIDE is providing NFC reading capabilities to enhance the MobiNear Box kiosk, which will now be able to let people use their contactless transportation cards and NFC
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We left our home territory for a few days last week, for a visit to Munich's Oktoberfest. Our beerhall tourist photos aren't appropriate here, but we did get a couple of aerial photos of the Mediterranean coastal mountains to share with our readers.

The first is Monaco, as we were passing by on our way east to the the Italian coast. The second photo shows the isolation of a small village perched in the mountains: probably Bajardo (north of Sanremo), with the wee village of Ceniana in the

By Russ Collins

It was the haute couture perfume-like bottles that first sparked my interest in Château d’Estoublon’s scrumptious olive oils . So on a recent trip to Provence in the South of France where the Estoublon estate has its roots, quite literally, a quick stop for a tasting was on the agenda. Set on a massive 48 acres, replete with vineyards, olive groves, gardens, a pond, and of course, a massive château, the space is inspiring, as are its products. Along with wines and tapenades, Château d’Estou
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PACA (Provence Alpes Cote d’Azur) hypermarket has launched its shopping website to enable customers to shop online. Provence customers just browse in the shop virtually and choose their products including special offers and best bargains. 2 hours after confirming the order they simply have to collect their shopping bags. Et voila! French hypermarket Auchan launched in Nice area its french website allowing clients to shop while sunbathing. A video in French and Dutch explains how to sign up
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A year and a half ago, I fell in love with an antique oak dining table in a secondhand store. Originally it was too expensive, but a month later, the price had fallen to one I could afford — no one wanted itsblack patina and slight damage. When I cheerily told the secondhand store owner I wanted to buy it, he sighed and said he was sorry about the damage, but that I could always paint over it. I said “oh non, jamais je la peindrais ! Ce n’est pas profond, je vais la poncer.” (”Oh no, I’d never paint it! It’s not deep, I’ll sand it.”) The owner looked at me and smiled, “c’est bien, c’est mieux comme ça.” (”That’s good, it’s better that way.”)

Thanks to a short visit by building management yesterday that required me to take the day off (to document the water damage from two months ago), I had plenty of extra time to do a project. Off to the home improvement store I went, to buy sandp

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As I approached theCasino de Monte Carlo, which also contains theMonte Carlo opera house, passing the Maseratis, Jaguars, Lamborghinis, Rolls Royces, Bugattis and Bentleys, I stopped in my tracks, wowed by a beauty I hadn’t expected to see much of:kimono. Not just one or two, but dozens upon dozens of Japanese women wearing gorgeous silk kimono with shibori, yuzen, embroidery, tsuzure weave and other designs, all wearing their obi (wide sashes/belts) tied in the traditional taiko style. I was delighted to be able to see what kind of kimono were worn to a kabuki performance: the formality ranged from irotomesode, the most formal I saw there, to iromuji, houmongi and tsukesage, which are usually worn to such performances, to tsukesage komon. (The least formal of kimono is the komon;women’s kimono types are described here.) There was even one woman wearing a cream tsukesage made of translucent ro, with a matching light blue ro obi woven with metallic threads. It was also inter

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You May Find Great Travel Deals Online France is a wonderful vacation destination. There is so much to see and do that it is best to plan your trip well in advance. Here are some tips to consider.First of all, think about what you want to do on your vacation. Do you want primarily want to visit historic sites and museums? Of course, France has many of these. You can’t possibly visit them all during one vacation. Which museums and historic sites are most important for you? Make a list an
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Traveling through France on a jaunt across Europe, or as a standalone vacation destination, is a trip that everyone should experience at least once. With snowcapped alps, the magnificent French Riviera, world famous art collections, pristine beaches, pastoral landscapes dotted with medieval castles, villages and ruins that tell the story of Frances diverse history, and the truly exquisite cosmopolitan city of Paris, travelers are sure to find exactly what they are looking for when visiting this
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