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If there’s one road trip in France that deserves far more attention than it gets, it’s the drive through the Southwest — a region too often overlooked but international travellers, yet one that deserves the spotlight. This isn’t the “South of France” of postcards and instant recognition : not Provence’s lavender fields stretching to the…

Belonging somewhere can blind you to it. I spent my teenage years in Provence, absorbed in its everyday rhythm, sure I already knew the place — until I left in my twenties for another region, and only then did I realise that I didn’t know that much about the place that made me grow. You…

So, you’re in Marseille. Maybe for a long weekend, maybe for a full week, or maybe you’ve decided to settle in for a month and really settled into the city’s rhythm. Either way, by now you’ve probably wandered the length of the Vieux-Port more than once, gotten pleasantly lost in the narrow streets of Le…

Often overshadowed by the South of France’s flashier names — Cannes with its red carpets, Marseille with its multicultural energy — Avignon tends to get overlooked. And that’s a shame, because this is a city unlike any other in the region, one you only really see once you slow down. Set along the banks of…