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Peter Mayle's Provence A-Z

Source: . Posted on 24 January 2007.

Peter Mayle shares insights into Provencal life and culture: Planning a trip to sunny, lavender-scented Provence, where the cigales ' scratchy chorus signals the start of summer?

You'd do well to tote along a copy of Peter Mayle's 'Provence A-Z' or pop the audio version into your CD player for the long trans-Atlantic flight.

Mayle first helped put Provence on the map for tourists 25 years ago when he wrote 'A Year in Provence' about the trials and tribulations of moving into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the Luberon with his wife and dogs.

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