Nice: Bus to Villefranche

The weather forecast for today and tomorrow isn’t great and I was woken early in morning by the sound of heavy rain. I wasn’t sure whether to go ahead with my plan to catch a bus to take me a few miles along the coast to Villefranche when I set out to find a cafe […]

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Nice: Arrival, Exploration & a Nicoise Supper

I first came to the south of France in my twenties. Then, when my kids were young in the 1980s and 90s we had lots of family holidays in South West France. But it wasn’t until 2006 that I visited Nice for the first time on a short holiday with my daughter. I loved it […]

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Lavender Ice Cream – A Taste of Provence

If you have ever been lucky enough to see the fields of lavender in Provence, France, in full and glorious bloom you will know what a wondrous sight this is. I have a little patch of lavender in my garden that is at its best right now, the stems topped by clusters of little flowers […]

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