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While we were in Provence, France, in August, we were lucky enough to have the right date timing for a local art exhibition that was held in the town, which Claudie and her sister were kind enough to invite us to come along to.
Ollioules Mayor, Robert Beneventi - which we had the pleasure of [...]

In our trip to Provence, Southern of France, our excellent hostess Claudie took us to one of Var region’s top attractions, the wonderful French medieval village with a 15th century castle: Le Castellet.
The 2 gates in the ramparts are listed in the Additional Inventory of Historic Monuments. We were all trying to take in [...]

With the thought of that Marseille traditional soaps have been made for about 600 years, I couldn’t resist taking a photo of those really wonderful vintage soap posters I found in a French medieval village.

The traditional Marseille soap is made from vegetable oils and it grew so popular that it in 1913 the production had [...]