Provence Blog by ProvenceBeyond

Comps-sur-Artuby refreshed, new photos

We've updated our page for Comps-sur-Artuby, a village in the Var department south of the Gorges du Verdon. We added a lot of new photos for Comps-sur-Artuby. Our previous photos were from 1995; not too bad, but we didn't have very many of them.
   Our photo here is of the nearby "Roman" bridge, built 17 centuries after the Romans.

Samuel Beckett was and is in Beyond

We've added a page about the Irish Nobel-Prize winning writer and poet Samuel Beckett to Beyond's People section. M. Beckett is an obvious choice for our pages: he studied French, he lived most of his life in France, he wrote most of his work in French (and translated it himself into English), and he lived a few years in the heart of Provence, in the picturesque village of Roussillon.

Caille Village and Meteorite Added

We've added the little Alpes-Maritimes village of Caille to Beyond. Set in the forested mountains north of Grasse, Caille is a great place for hiking, mountain biking and winter cross-country skiing.

Cycling Tour de France 2009 Update

We've added some route details to Beyond's Tour de France 2009 page. The official La Tour website still hasn't released the route details (other than the stage start and end towns and the mountain stages), but we've found some more details for the last two stages, especially for the urban villages approaching Paris from the southeast on the final day (Sunday, 26 July).

Nice (France) Airport Parking

We've updated the information and prices for the Nice-Cote-d'Azur airport parking, including a new Nice Airport Map ("borrowed" from the official Aeroport de Nice website).

Our main Nice-Cote-d'Azur airport page still has a photo of the supersonic Concord, a nice symbol even though it no longer lands here during the Formula-One weekend or the Cannes Film Festival in the month of May.

Rocher du Causse Oppidum from the New Stone Age

The Rocher du Causse Oppidum site was a fortified habitation from the Chalcolithic Period, on a cliff-top site in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of southern France. This nicely restored site was built around 2400 BC, and enlarged and inhabited across the centuries, up to the Iron Age.
Our photo here is a detail of the weather vane at the site's observation point overlooking the countryside below the cliffs. The local names of the different winds are depicted on the weather vane.