June 15th, 2013
The email arrived that morning: Your flight has been cancelled due to an airline workers strike. I was just about to leave my small hotel near the Marseille airport, but the message stopped me in my tracks.
After more than an hour on hold the airline representative gave me two choices: take the next available seat–a week from Tuesday, or receive a full refund.
“But I have to get to London in order to catch my flight home. I can’t wait until next week!” No one seemed to care, so I took the refund.
Perched Villages
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Tags: Cascais, delicious expeditions, France, kris rudolph, Provence, stranded in France, stranded in Paris, travel problems
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June 5th, 2013
Most of you know by now that I’m a proud member of homeexchange.com. I often boast of my month in Prague living next door to the Prime Minister, my summer in Vermont lazing around a picturesque 18th century farmhouse, and let’s not forget my posh apartment in Manhattan. I don’t look for these experiences–they find me.
Wanted: a place in San Miguel in exchange for our home in Provence, or our beach house in Bali.
I’ve more than once sprained my finger hitting the reply button. (It’s a contest you know, getting to your fellow exchangees before anyone else does.)
I chose France, three weeks in the foothills of the Alps, near the Luberon, the region made famous by Peter Mayle and his book, “A Year in Provence.“ It’s home to the Cote du Rhone wine route as well as numerous lavender farms, ancient olive trees and quaint medieval villages.
Lavender Before The Bloom
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Tags: bread sommelier, delicious expeditions, eating in Provence, France, homeexchange.com, kris rudolph, Le Mas Tourteron in Gordes, Luberon, L’atelier de Jean-Luc Rabanel
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