Bouillabaisse

16 February 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon appétit Reading Time:  9 minutes

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Bouillabaisse (Provençal: bolhabaissa) is a traditional Provençal fish soup originating in the port city of Marseille. The word is originally a compound of the two Provençal verbs bolhir (‘to boil‘) and abaissar (‘to reduce heat’, i.e. ‘simmer‘).   read more…

Mougins in the Alpes-Maritimes department

28 November 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, French Riviera Reading Time:  7 minutes

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Mougins (Occitan: Mogins; Latin: Muginum) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Southeastern France. It is located on the heights of Cannes, in the arrondissement of Grasse. Mougins is a 15-minute drive from Cannes. The town is surrounded by forests, most notably the Valmasque forest. In the town there are pines, olives and cypress trees.   read more…

Saorge in the Alpes-Maritimes department

21 November 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

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Saorge (Royasc: Sauèrge; Brigasc: Savurgë; standard Ligurian: Savurgiu; Italian: Saorgio; Occitan: Saorj) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France. It is a member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France (The Most Beautiful Villages of France) Association. Highway E74 which runs north from Menton, passes through Saorge on its way to the Col de Tende (Italian: Colle di Tenda) where it crosses into Italy. The local spoken regiolect is a form of the Royasc dialect.   read more…

Aspremont in Southeastern France

8 August 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, French Riviera Reading Time:  4 minutes

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Main street © Fabimaru/cc-by-sa-3.0

Aspremont (Italian: Aspromonte di Nizza, formerly; Niçard: Aspermùnt) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in Southeastern France.   read more…

Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in Southern France

8 April 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

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Market © flickr.com – Peter Curbishley/cc-by-2.0

Saint-Rémy-de-Provence is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in Southern France. It is often referred to simply as Saint-Rémy, its official name until 12 April 1953. Located in the northern part of the Alpilles, of which it is the main town, it had a population of 9,692 as of 2020.   read more…

Vieux-Nice, the old town of Nice

2 April 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, French Riviera Reading Time:  4 minutes

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Old Nice (Vila-Vielha in niçois) is the old part of the city of Nice. Its inhabitants also speak of the “old town” (vielha vila in niçois). In the past, the nickname babazouk was also given to it, a local adaptation of the Arabic expression meaning “door to the souk”.   read more…

Cours Saleya in Nice

11 March 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, French Riviera, Bon appétit, Shopping Reading Time:  10 minutes

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The main pedestrian route in Old Nice, the Cours Saleya, parallel to the Quai des États-Unis, extends rue Saint-François-de-Paule to the west, from rue Louis-Gassin to Place Charles-Félix.   read more…

Biot on the French Riviera

17 February 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, French Riviera Reading Time:  5 minutes

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© Jean Pierre Lozi/cc-by-sa-3.0

Biot (Occitan: Biòt) is a small fortified medieval hilltop village in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur near Antibes, between Nice and Cannes. Many people come to Biot for its renowned cubist art museum of Fernand Leger as well as the winding cobbled lanes on the elevated fort. This village, that is now known for its ceramics and glassblowing, dates to prehistoric times.   read more…

Tarte tropézienne

10 February 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, French Riviera, Bon appétit Reading Time:  4 minutes

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© Fortetclair75/cc-by-sa-4.0

Tarte tropézienne, also known as “La Tarte de Saint-Tropez”, is a dessert pastry consisting of a halved brioche filled with a mix of two creams, thick pastry cream (crème pâtissière) and buttercream, and topped with pearl sugar. It was created in 1955 by Polish confectioner Alexandre Micka, a pâtisserie owner in Saint-Tropez, where he moved in 1945 just after the war.   read more…

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