“Traveling slowly gives you a more mindful connection to the place you’re visiting.” (Natalie Gale, The Good Trade, 9 February 2024.) Recently, while reading my daily dose of the New York Times that comes each morning to my email inbox, I stumbled across something that was truly an “aha” moment for me. It was the…
Category: Where We’re Going.
Provence: A Feast for the Senses, September 20-29, 2025.
Is there a better time to start imagining and planning for my next trip to southern France than January? After the nonstop activity of December, I always welcome the quiet, introspective time in the heart of winter, when I can spend entire days at home working on art projects that have been forgotten for too…
Let’s Discuss Shopping in the South of France, Shall We?
Because of course we all want to know what sort of pretty objects will be available for us to make our own, friends. And since a picture is worth a thousand words and all that, I’ll skip right to it.
Isle sur la Sorgue.
In order to build excitement and increase our sense of anticipation for our trip in September, I’m going to be writing about the different places we’re going to be going. And it seemed reasonable to start with my favorite flea market town in the whole wide world. Let’s go to France, shall we? Oh, the treasure…
Les Baux de Provence.
This is part of a continuing series about the towns that we will be visiting on our September 2024 trip. 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…
France. Curated. 