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Shop Window Surprise – Provence

Posted in France, French cuisine, Holiday, Tourism, Travel, tagged , , , on November 12, 2010 | 19 Comments »

Don’t visit this town, there is nothing much to see! This is what I often read in travel guide books when I look up “Carpentras”, located in Provence in the south of France. Carpentras is a town 35 minutes’ drive to the north east of Avignon. It has an enormous market on Friday morning which […]

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Dinan – our very own Dreamland

Posted in Brittany, France, French cuisine, Medieval townships, Tourism, Travel, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Christopher Nolan’s much-awaited, mind-bending blockbuster Inception sucked me into a dreamland far, far away. In the back of the Rennes movie theatre I was transported back to Paris, but not the Paris we know – a Paris where the streets could effortlessly fold on top of each other, where enormous fireless explosions popped up around […]

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Cancale – The World is Your Oyster

Posted in Brittany, France, French cuisine, Holiday, Tourism, Travel, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Falstaff: I will not lend thee a penny. Pistol: Why then the world’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. Falstaff: Not a penny. This famous quote from William Shakespeare’s celebrated The Merry Wives of Windsor ran through my mind a few weeks ago when I travelled to the idyllic seaside village of Cancale […]

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