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    Provence Guides

    Reasons to Move to Provence (As if you really needed convincing)

    18/04/2026 /

    If you’re thinking about making the move to Provence, here are some reasons that might just tip the balance. I can’t promise it’ll be perfect — nowhere ever is — but I can promise you that once Provence gets under your skin, it never really leaves. The Weather Let’s start with the obvious. Provence enjoys around 300 days of sunshine a year — and somehow, it never gets old. Winters are crisp and bright, summers are long and lazy, and even when the mistral wind blows, the skies stay that deep, endless blue. You start to plan your life around light — morning coffees on terraces, evening walks in the gold of the setting…

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    A Year in Provence: Expectations vs. Reality

    16/11/2025
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    Eating my Way Through Aix en Provence

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    10 Cool Things to Do in Aix-en-Provence

    16/11/2025 /

    Living near Aix-en-Provence feels a bit like living inside a painting — one that smells faintly of lavender and espresso. It’s elegant, sunlit, and endlessly walkable, yet always full of surprises.

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    29/03/2026
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    Sunday Mornings in France

    16/11/2025 /

    One of the first things you notice when you move to France is that, in most places, Sundays are still sacred. Not in a religious sense, necessarily — though you’ll still hear church bells echoing through the villages — but in the sense of slowing down, of pausing.

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    A Year in Provence: Expectations vs. Reality

    16/11/2025 /

    About a year ago, my family decided to move from a quiet rural village in northern France to Provence — specifically, to a village just outside Aix-en-Provence — so that my children could attend a bilingual school. It turns out, it was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made.

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    What I Miss Most (and Least) About Home

    16/11/2025 /

    I last lived in my home country, the UK, when I was twenty-one. Things have changed hugely since then — new slang, new politics, new prices — but the things I miss always seem to stay the same.

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    Cultural and Linguistic Fails I Can Now Laugh About

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    10 Things I Wish I’d Known Before Moving to France

    13/11/2025 /

    (Because it’s not all croissants and châteaux — but it’s close)

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