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WINTER 2024

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  • Provence
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  • France
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  • Burgundy
  • French alps
  • French riviera
Packed with fabulous features and fantastic photos, inspiring, entertaining and informative guides, mouth-watering recipes from top chefs, history, culture and much, much more. Discover the French Riviera in winter, effervescent Epernay, Champagne, picturesque Provence, and captivating towns and villages, hidden gems and secret France. Find out what's on, what's new and what to cook for a taste of France! Bringing France to you - wherever you are.

© Destination Luberona

© Destination Luberona shortened version of my name (it’s faster),respond to texts while I wait, then about faceto work, in the perched village of Gordes,there is no such thing as “to go” coffee (atleast with the residents). A “coffee to go” isthe antithesis of the concept of Provence.Provence tells you to stop, to smell the coffee(and the lavender), savor the croissant, touchthe plump fig hanging from the fig tree, noticethe colors in the light in the distant views. Theysay the unusual light is thanks to the strongwind, the mistral, that strips the dust from theatmosphere. No wonder Cezanne, Van Gogh,Renoir, Matisse, Picasso, and more drewinspiration from this setting.After the adrenaline-rushed days in New YorkCity, I feel the need (not that I can alwayssatisfy it) for a yearly visit to Provence toremind me to touch, listen, smell, taste andsee the world afresh —and to connect with thedeeper part of me that that knows…. to quotefrom C.P. Cavafy, that “arriving there is whatI’m destined for.”© Destination LuberonElizabeth Birkelund is the author ofA NORTHERN LIGHT IN PROVENCE(Ballantine hardcover,ISBN 9780593722213):A woman leaves her coastal Greenlandvillage to translate the works of arenowned Provençal poet and findsher life irrevocably changed, in this tenderand romantic novel set in a French village.QUALITY FRENCHMANUFACTUREDFIBREGLASSSWIMMING POOLSOPERATINGTHROUGHOUT FRANCE5 STAR REVIEWS1 WEEK INSTALLATION OVER40 POOL MODELS 10 YEAR GUARANTEE(+33) 6 42 50 04 31www.poolsdirect.onlinecontact@poolsdirect.onlinewww.facebook.com/poolsdirectS I R E T : 9 0 4 9 5 3 9 5 7 0 0 0 1 960 | The Good Life France The Good Life France | 61