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Links to other Web Siteswww.luberonexperience.com A lovely American couple that we met in Provence in 2000, Anne and Kirk Woodyard, host small group sessions each summer in Provence. They combine music in the evenings with markets and some relaxed sightseeing in the daytimes. Based in Aix-en-Provence, the groups take advantage of the summer festival season, enjoying concerts in varied and wonderful outdoor locations, such as chateau courtyards, dramatic quarries, theaters under the stars, and ancient abbeys. For a detailed description of their trips, see the Woodyard's website. This website is a great place to go to look for vacation rentals. It has listings for many countries, but you can go directly to France (it's especially good for Italy). A neat feature is that they collect rental reviews, so you get candid comments about many of the listings. The website also has a message board where you can post questions. It's a big website, with lots of personal commentary from its users. It's fun and useful This new site was created by Frieda Lekkerkerker, who used to manage the Microsoft Expedia France Forum, and who lives in a small village in Provence. It is a wonderful site, full of good information, easy to navigate, and well written. It has a number of different sections, including a rentals page, links to "active vacations" in Provence, and a "What is Provence?" page that offers the best answer we have yet seen to that tricky question. Our friends from Scotland, Jim and Linda O'Neill, own an apartment in the town of Barga, in northern Tuscany and another in the wonderful Tuscan town of Lucca. Both are within easy reach of Florence and Siena, but also a bit off the beaten tourist path. For photos and details, see their website. Nina Haedrich, Doug Ingold, and their son Ahry were among our first Provence Byways clients in 1997. Since that time they have begun a similiar program in Austria, in the beautiful Alpine region just west of Salzburg, where Nina has family ties. They have several fall 2000 sessions scheduled. See their site for details. Transitions Abroad magazine is an excellent bimonthly publication that has articles on all forms of alternative travel, with an emphasis on education and work abroad programs. It also features specialty touring, such as walking and hiking, history, food, etc. Provence Byways was featured in its November/December 2000 issue. Read article. This is a French site (in English) called "Beyond the French Riviera," meaning that it focuses on the less touristed parts of Provence, beyond the French Riviera. It's very thorough and full of good information. You could spend days exploring its depths. Its menu lists Towns and Villages, Sites, Themes, Maps, Nature, Gastronomy, History, Sports, Travel, and Weather. It also has hundreds of links to other web sites on specific topics of interest to travelers in Provence, and a well run chat room.. This is the site for a store in Portland, Oregon that is billed as "the world's biggest used bookstore." It's great fun for bibliophiles. The searching and ordering are well-managed and you can find many out of print titles here. This site has all of the IGN maps of France from the Institut Geographic National. These maps come in several series, color coded by scale. The Blue Series is the most detailed, while the Red is the most inclusive. The Green is in between. The Green Series map No. 67 covers the whole area of the Luberon. For more detailed trail and topographic information, you need to find the Blue series maps that cover the particular area you want to hike in. For the Lourmarin-Bonnieux-Buoux area maps Nos. 3142 E and 3242 O are the ones. Local Blue series maps are widely available in the bookstores and tabacs in the villages and towns of the Luberon. To continue in bibliography: |
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