Originally published on Maison Cupcake in 2012. The movie remains a classic and the locations – thankfully – have changed little. Part 3 of a series. After viewing Paris through the eyes of Simone de Beauvoir last week, today it is the turn of Amelie Poulain as in Le Fableux Destin de Amelie Poulain – to [read more]
Originally published in 2012, one of my earliest France travel posts on Maison Cupcake, about a trip to Ladurée to buy macarons. Maison Cupcake in Paris Part One Is it Easter already? Twelve months have passed yet it feels like yesterday my husband and I escaped by ourselves for a holiday weekend in Paris by Eurostar. [read more]
Originally published on Maison Cupcake in 2010. Mont Ventoux is the highest point in Provence and quite possibly the highest place, bar a skiing trip to Meribel, that I have been. Situated 20km north east of Carpentras in the Vaucluse, it was a little way off from our usual stomping grounds of St-Remy-de-Provence and the [read more]