Provence, France Travel Blogs

Nice
Jul 16, 2007 (2 photos)

Hey all, Liam here. Once again we've managed to cover a fair bit of ground since the last update, so strap yourselves in - it's gonna be a lengthy and mildly enjoyable thrill ride! This one covers Vienna, Venice, Milan and Arezzo. Thanks again to all ...

Nice, France
May 11, 2008 (20 photos)

Day 73 - We packed our bags and said goodbye to the feather bed. Now weighed down by our extra box of souvenirs we made our way to the train station. The train ride was quick and most of the time ran along the ocean. I was starting to get excited for the ...

City by the sea...with an edge
Aug 25, 2007

Arrived in Marseilles after an uneventful train ride from Nimes.  While expensive, the trains in France are quite comfortable and timely.  A quick but expensive taxi driven by the most polite and charming gentleman encountered in France delivered ...

Bulls, Bulls, Bulls....
Aug 22, 2007 (29 photos)

... and evening.  My waistline and pocketbook are feeling it.  At times he has joined us and we have been able to hear more about France and get to know him and other times he has left the four of us on our own (the tour group is very small) to get ...

Saint Benezet Patron Saint of Architects!
Aug 20, 2007

Saw two UNESCO Heritage sites here:  the Saint-Benezet Bridge and the Palais de Popes.  Learned that architects have a Patron Saint-Benezet.  Good to know, we really need it at times!  Our cute hotel was located right outside the ...

The City of 1000 Fountains
Apr 5, 2007 (13 photos)

(S) Long before we came up with this whole Great Escape to Europe for five months idea, we talked about spending a few days in Aix for a vacation. We spent two days here in April, spending the night in a campground above the city. Still a bit cold for ...

Stone not welcome - it must be bad karma
Jun 4, 2008 (1 photos)

It must be karma for Sharon Stone, as she hasn't been invited to the Shanghai International Film festival after she said the Wenchuan earthquake was the result of bad karma. "Stone and her films will not appear at the Shanghai International Film ...

We Do Our Grocery Shopping in Monte Carlo
Apr 1, 2007 (14 photos)

... e-mails. We have been without internet for 10 days. It would seem Italy is much more technologically advanced than the south of France. Or maybe the people that live or vacation here have people who check their email for them. Or they just don't care. It ...

France rocks!
Aug 14, 2004 (4 photos)

Sometime in the 13th century, the powerful Count of Sabran sought to strengthen control over his territory in southern France by fortifying the castle atop the hill overlooking the village of Saint Victor la Coste. For example, stone walls were built along ...

Eating our way through France . . .
Sep 16, 2003 (16 photos)

... cannot get back in the States. The next stop on our gastronomical tour was a beautiful french farmhouse in the heart of Provence. Since we arrived without a car we were essentially stranded at our B&B. This horrible fate meant that we had to hike in ...

Starsky and Bigfoot Go for a Walk
Apr 2, 2007 (5 photos)

(S) Day two in the French Riviera. While the studio is simply fantastic, it is definitely a vacation apartment and is used by friends of my family for only short periods of time. We are pretty sure the longest people stay here is about 3 days. So when we ...

Easter Sunday on the Cote d'Azur
Apr 8, 2007 (9 photos)

... chaplain even thinking Chad was English. The service was wonderful and a perfect beginning to our Easter in the south of France. Once back home in our little apartment, we starting preparing our picnic - fried chicken, broccoli salad, French baguette ( ...

Arles
Aug 10, 2007 (7 photos)

... (for about an hour) in the corner of an airport (we had to be there for 4:30am so we just hung out), flying to Provence, taking a bus to Marseille, and a train to Arles, we are sure anything would seem nice. Considering the weather here is 28 and sunny, ...

Celeb spotting in St-Tropez
Aug 8, 2008 (28 photos)

After a day of admin back at the hotel we were keen to get out and see more of the Riviera so we booked a trip to another millionaire's paradise, St Tropes. The tour would take us on a 1:30 bus ride along the coast through sexy little towns and passing ...

Two Euro lunch stop
Aug 9, 2008 (2 photos)

Our stop in Avignon was just long enough for a short stroll along the river bank to streach the legs and take a few photos of the half built bridge and the city wall. I'm not sure if this little town needs much more time than this?

The worst kind of image for an airline
Nov 29, 2008 (1 photos)

It is the worst kind of image for any airline to have shown all over the world: your logo on the tail of an aircraft which has crashed. But it happened this week to Air New Zealand. Normally when you hear of an Airbus crashing, it means all ...

What stinks?
Apr 9, 2007 (6 photos)

(S) Grasse - perfume capital of the world. Who knew? Not me obviously, but luckily my travel partner is fluent in all things perfume related - too bad he doesn't use any himself. Ok, just kidding. We wandered around and did a tour of one of a perfume ...

Lunch by the Sea
Apr 3, 2007 (3 photos)

(S) Antibes was the first stop on our little tour around the Cote d'Azur and Provence. Our apartment was in a perfect jump off spot for day-tripping around the area. (C) In college, I spent a couple days in this neck of the woods looking for the perfect ...

Hey, don't they have a film festival here?
Apr 3, 2007 (2 photos)

(C) And why didn't they invite us??  And look how glamorous we are.  This was a nice trip along the coast until we decided to drive back to Monte Carlo from Cannes in the afternoon.  Traffic along the corniches might be the Riviera's  ...

Back home on the Cote d'Azur
May 3, 2007 (9 photos)

... We settled on a departure plan from Venice and bought tickets on the Internet at Pizza Pino in Monaco. (S) Yes. Get me out of France!! But it has been nice to just relax and cook good food at our little apartment. Chad's risotto and onion soup are like ...

Map Pin Update
Jul 27, 2007

Avignon map pin

Home Again - for just a bit.
Jun 8, 2007 (15 photos)

(C) THOUGHT OF THE DAY - No wonder everyone likes to come to the south of France. (S) Well, it would appear our two months of freeloading might have finally come to an end. It is time to leave our oceanside AND oceanview apartment in the south of France ...

Nice
Sep 4, 2005 (4 photos)

Nice is the capital of the Riviera and the beautiful Cote d Azur. When people speak of ¨taking the South of France option¨ when terminally ill you can see why. We had visited Nice for 5 days in 1999 but it will always be a great place to visit. The food is ...

Avignon
Aug 12, 2007 (9 photos)

Avignon could keep you busy for quite some time. It is consumed by history and culture, packed with countless museums, and surrounded by 14th century ramparts that once protected its holy resident... The Pope. In 1309 Pope Clement V fled political turmoil ...

Nice, its nice!
Apr 9, 2004 (1 photos)

Oh its the life I was born for im sure.. the sun, eating lunch on the beach, wandering the stores with my girlfriends.. how could it be that I am forced to work when I have seen the life I was meant for?? It was in Nice i discovered the ubiquitous Zara ...

Southern France ...Nice - is it?
Sep 24, 2005 (9 photos)

Once in nice i found it pretty easy going striaght away. We got off the train, and it was a warm day with little clouds in the sky. We checked into our hostel and headed out striaght away to the beach. Now if you can imagine the typical scene of 'Miami ...

Groovy little town of the medieval Popes
Jun 16, 2006 (28 photos)

If you have read my entries from Rhodes (Greece) and Valletta (Malta), you might be familiar with the name Avignon - a French city of great power in the middle ages and one of the vegetable-sounding 'auberges' that formed the Order of the Knights of St ...

Nice Nice
Aug 6, 2008 (9 photos)

In the heart of the French Riviera lies Nice a smallish city with a population of approximately 350,000 people. The highlight of Nice definitely seems to be its long stretches of pebbled beaches filled with sun lovers. The beaches are periodically divided ...

La vie en Provence
Jun 25, 2004 (14 photos)

I'm leaving Ventabren this morning (a village near Aix en Provence in the South of France), heading slowly but surely towards my old home in Italy. First though the Côte d'Azur needs more exploration over the coming weekend. My festive but not ...

Camping Cheap in Cannes
Jun 3, 2005

Tina and I camped in Cannes, shopped and took the train to Monaco. Just after the Festival (sorry we missed it) so it was quiet but still very nice to be chilling on the Riviera near the end of a very very hard travelling trip.