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My Best Tomato Tarte Tatin ... In My Opinion.
As most of you have figured out, we love good food. So that means, we eat out quite often and gather around our table for home cooked meals as often as we can. I get ideas for dishes from a large...
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"Les 3 Souquets", an Olive Oil Boutique and Santonnier Workshop Near Sablet
We have been traveling to Sablet several times a year for the past 11 years. You would think that by now, there would not be anything new left for us to discover, but that is not the case. It seems...
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Domaine de la Charbonnière, an excellent producer of wines in...
One of many things that attracted us to Sablet, was its location in the Côtes du Rhône and proximity to world-renown wine villages such as Gigondas, Vacqueyras and Châteauneuf-du-Pape. We like all the...
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Wine tasting in Gigondas and a hike from Col de Cayron to the Dentelles de...
We are blessed to have a house in Sablet, France and live as locals several times a year. We love our location at the base of the Dentelles de Montmirail surrounded by vineyards as far as you can see....
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Le Castellet, Perched Medieval Village in Bandol AOC
As we were approaching the end of our most recent sojourn in Sablet, I suggested to Shirley that we visit the Bandol region and taste wine since we had not been there for several years. I told you...
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Domaine Tempier, Legendary Wine Estate and Foodie Heaven
I have wanted to visit Domaine Tempier, ever since the first time I read about the Bandol winery owned by the Peyraud family, in books authored by Richard Olney, Alice Waters and Kermit Lynch. Kermit...
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La Cadière-d'Azur, Perched Village in the Var Region
La Cadière-d'Azur is a small medieval village perched on the edge of a cliff on the hill across from Le Castellet in the south-west of the Var region. After we finished our walk-about Le Castellet,...
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Domaine de Terrebrune, a Domaine worth Seeking Out in Bandol
You will recall that on the last day of our most recent sojourn in Sablet, I suggested to Shirley that we drive to the Bandol wine region and taste wine since we had not been there for several years....
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We Get Our Daily Bread in Sablet, France
From the day we began our search for a house in the South of France, our top priority was for the house to be located within walking distance of village business' including a boulangerie (bakery). As...
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Avignon, City of Popes and Summer Festivals...Definitely Worth a Visit!
Avignon is 40 km southwest of Sablet, snuggled inside ancient walls along the Rhône River. The largest town in the Vaucluse, Avignon is very old, full of history, art, music and activity. I can spend...
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Lunch under the Castle at Bistro du'O in Vaison-la-Romaine
We go often to Vaison-la-Romaine, sometimes it seems almost every day. We go for Tuesday morning market, buy basic household supplies at "Brando Vaison Ménager", pick up cheese at an amazing shop...
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Gordes, A "Most Beautiful Villages of France" and location for many scenes in...
Every time we come to our home in Sablet, in the Provence region of France, we head toward the Luberon mountain to visit one or more of the small hill top villages in that area. Many times, Gordes is...
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Roussillon, Most Colorful Village in Provence
Friends and others headed to Provence often ask where they should go during their once in a life time visit to Provence. This is a hard question as most visitors have only 6 days since they usually...
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We live on Grande Rue in Sablet in the Provence Region of France
I have always found it very amusing that the street where our house in Sablet is located is called "Grande Rue". Read on to find out why this is so perplexing to me. For those of you who don't know,...
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Tuesday morning at the Vaison-la-Romaine weekly market, our favorite time in...
We plan our days in Sablet around the Tuesday morning market in Vaison-la-Romaine. Tuesday mornings, rain or shine, always finds us leaving the house early for the trip to Vaison-la-Romaine.If you...
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A fall visit to Cassis, a picturesque village along the Mediterranean Sea
Cassis is a picturesque town a little over 1 and 1/2 hours from Sablet snuggled at the bottom of a steep bowl of land along the Mediterranean Sea between calanques (little coastal fjords with tall...
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Go visit the Pont du Gard if for no other reason, this "masterpiece" has been...
Our favorite Roman ruin in the South of France is the Pont du Gard, the aqueduct bridge that crosses the Gardon River about 60 km (37 miles) from our house in Sablet, between the towns of Remoulins and...
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A Visit to Uzès is a Great Idea After a Visit to Nearby Pont du Gard
Loyal readers who follow my musings about Provence know that visits to the Pont du Gard are a regular part of our annual visits to the South of France. However, after you have walked out to the Roman...
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Our Last Day in Beautiful Sablet in Provence
We could never have imagined that it would be more than a year and half before we might return to Sablet when we awoke on Sunday morning, October 13, 2019. Like the rest of the world, we couldn't...
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These Are a Few of My Favorite Things ... in Provence France
The amazing region of Provence France has so many wonderful places to explore and points of interest to check out that it is almost impossible to decide which are my favorites. After not going to...
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