You Thought You Were Ready – Côte d’Azur Rentals The Unofficial Guide · What Nobody Told You You Thought You Were Readyfor the Côte d’Azur.You Were Not. 20 things that will happen to you anyway. Everyone arrives on the Côte d’Azur with a suitcase, a sunhat, and the quiet confidence of someone who has done…
Life on the Riviera · With Fur Two Dogs, One Riviera — One Won’t Get Out of the Car, the Other Won’t Get Back In. Let me introduce the team. Vicky is an English Setter of considerable beauty and absolutely zero courage. She is afraid of the wind, suspicious of strangers, deeply opposed to steep…
Cannes Life · Five Years on the Inside George Lucas, Elton John, and a Duck Confit. Five years running a restaurant in Cannes during festival season will do things to you. You learn to stay calm when a bodyguard takes up your entire doorway. You learn which celebrities tip and which ones don’t. You learn…
Village Life · Alpes-Maritimes The Most Beautiful Village I’ve Visited While Everything Was Closed Saint-Paul-de-Vence will stop you mid-sentence. The ramparts, the cobblestones, the light at four in the afternoon — it’s the kind of place that makes you feel like you’ve wandered into a painting that hasn’t quite dried yet. It is also, depending…
Village Life · Alpes-Maritimes The Village That Made Me Never Want to Leave. Or Go Back Down. Gourdon sits eight hundred metres above the Gorges du Loup and has eleven permanent residents, one medieval castle, and a view so completely unreasonable that you will stand there for a long time saying nothing at all. That…
Food & Life · A Canadian in Provence Yes, I Make Poutine in Provence. Twenty years in the South of France and I still make poutine from scratch. The gravy, the curds tracked down from the one cheese vendor who doesn’t look at me strangely — all of it. My neighbours have opinions. I have…
My Story · How I Ended Up Here A Car Full of CVs and the Best Mistake I Ever Made I came to France for a summer. I had a car, a stack of CVs, and the very reasonable plan of someone who had absolutely no idea what was about to happen to them. I…