Our morning's walk nearGrasseturned and a passing bus heading forCannesturned into a travel adventure. We hopped on the bus and, on the spur of the moment, decided to check out a recent request about bus travel between Cannes andEze Village.

Paying our 1-euro bus fare, we asked for a transfer (correspondance) and then settled into our seat to enjoy the passing scenery and the surrounding people. The Grasse-Canne bus (#600) can be full, especially during going-to-work time, so you aren't g

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We were only in Nice for a couple of nights yet I had several things on my ‘to- do-eat’ list. High on the list was the Cours Saleya Market in the heart of Old Town. Hence, this popular meeting place and open-air market sells fresh flowers, outstanding produce, artisan products and live poultry sourced directly from neighboring farms. I’m sure there were lots of lovely fresh flowers at this world famous market, but I was there for different reasons. I was on a mission for the perfect croissant
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I “met” Jill Mitchell when I e-mailed her about a fantastic vintage snake anatomy print I spied while visiting her Ebay store. A n American who chronicles her life in Provence on her blog Le Trip , Jill organizes day trips, tours and travel packages for those of us who do not live like she does. But don’t worry if you can’t get away, Jill collects interesting things on her trips, vintage French school charts (anatomy and otherwise) and an assortment of decorative odds and ends, which she s
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By Peter Mayle , the author of A Year in Provence and the forthcoming novel The Vintage Caper (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 25/10/09): Aix-en-Provence, France — There is a tendency among the French to welcome certain aspects of American life with immediate and uncritical enthusiasm: hamburgers, Jerry Lewis, baseball caps, elderly television series (“Starsky & Hutch” is still running on French TV), Westerns, Marlboro Lights, button-down shirts — these and much more besides have crossed the Atla
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Polar bears Flocke (German) and Rasputin (Russian) who now live together in the Nuremberg zoo will be moving to the Marineland attraction park at Antibes early next year (2010). Flocke is called the “celebrity German polar bear” by AP, so we suppose she's well known somewhere.

 
Marineland is a celebrity themepark atAntibes, going strong since 1970. The main attraction is the marine show, including killer whales (orcas) and dolphins. We've visited the shows here and recomme

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A Good Year (2006) DVDRip XviD-DMZ DVD | 588×246 | 715 kbps | XviD | 23.976 fps | English | MP3 | 48000Hz | 112 kb/s | CBR | 117 mins | 701 Mb Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance After years of no contact with his Uncle Henry, London banker and bond trader Max Skinner learns that Henry has died intestate, so Max inherits a chвteau and vineyard in Provence. Max spent part of his childhood there, learning maxims and how to win and lose, and honing his killer instinct (at chess, which serves him wel
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French Essence: Ambience, Beauty and Style in Provence Author: Vicki Archer Photographer: Carla Couls on Publisher: Lantern NZ RRP: $65 In 2006 Vivki Archer burst on to the publishing scene with the utterly enchanting and beautiful book, MY FRENCH LIFE , which unsurprisinglywent on to enjoy significant sales around the world. Now she is here again this time with French Essence , a celebration of life in Provence in which she reveals the underpinnings of that fa
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We've added two Alpes-Maritimes mountain villages to Beyond:Revest-les-RochesandTourette-du-Chateau. Both villages are located in the forested mountains northwest ofNice, just behind and aboveGilette. Both villages are tiny and have little or no commerce.

Driving the long, narrow, twisty roads to and around the villages is an adventure, and the scenery is beautiful.

We went there for the hiking a few days ago, doing a 5-hour loop hike to the top of Mont Vial (1550 m; 900-m vertical). There are

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By Michael Ogden As we approached we saw yet another sign to Dechetterie. We could not leave France without discovering what this was so, after purchasing our cheese we boldly went where no British person has ever been before. We followed the signs down the road to the very depths of the retail park and there the mystery was revealed. A Dechetterie………. Copyright (c) 2009 Michael Ogden This was a term we had not come across before…Le Dechetterie. It was to tease us for week
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In order to strengthen its presence in Europe, aleo solar is opening a sales office in the Aix-en-Provence, France. This move follows several megawatt deals the company has struck in the country within the last few months.
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