The Résidence Les Marronniers Provence Blog offers a unique blend of news from the Provence-Côte d'Azur region in the South of France, in addition to carefully hand picked links to web sites of interest to anyone visiting this idyllic area. Updated daily.
Source: www.nypost.com. Posted on 10 September 2004.
Thanks to Nice's acres of gardens, tree-lined avenues, fountains and museums, it remains one of the busiest, and least provincial, towns in Provence.
Making ratatouille - the famous...Ratatouille is a stewlike concoction that sounds far more complex and exotic than it really is. In reality, it's nothing more than a casserole stew created from the simplest and most abundant of... | Southern expanse of rusticated...When you get right down to it, Provence is blessed. A postcard-pretty region that starts at the serrated peaks of the Haute Alps in its north, it's perhaps most famous for its southern expanse of... |
U2's Bono is in Saint-TropezIrish rocker Bono has been taking some time out in Saint-Tropez after finishing work on his new album. The U2 frontman swapped the grey skies of Dublin for the clear blue waters of the... | Speak English?Parlez-vous... French? German? Arabic? If you do - even just a little - you'll get far more out of your travels than the typical tongue-tied Brit abroad. And if you don't... well here's how you... |
Provençal wines makers in the pinkRosé wines are synonymous with long, lazy summer lunches in Provence. As holidaymakers in a café in a Mayle fantasy village or in a restaurant in Saint-Tropez, the British on holiday lazily order... | P Diddy told off for jetski fun on...Hip-hop star Sean 'P Diddy' Combs holiday fun has landed him in trouble with Saint-Tropez, France's water police. |
Résidence Les Marronniers is a Provençal villa, situated on the Presqu'île de Saint-Tropez on the French Riviera. It lies in a beautiful, unspoiled setting with a breathtaking, panoramic sea view. With its four bedrooms, three bathrooms and 175m² sun-drenched terrace, the villa comfortably sleeps 8 people.
“We came at the end of April when it is not too hot. We used the villa as a base to explore the area on the south coast. We went on day trips to Monaco, Nice, Cannes, Toulon, Marseilles and Aix-en-Provence.”
-- Family Becker
