... to lift his fortunes by association with one of the secular saints of modern France. The president is limping along with a 60 percent disapproval rating, according to a Nov. 9 Ipsos poll for the newsmagazine Le Point. Albert Camus is currently buried in the cemetery of Lourmarin, in the Luberon area of Provence. Camus died at the age of 46 in 1960, from injuries sustained in a car accident.

According to a press release from Vignobles Investissement they have been tasked by the Film Commission of Luberon Vaucluse to find a suitable winery location to record a series of reality shows. It is the American producer PBS that is producing the series. Apparently, the programs have already been shot, during the 2009 harvest. When can we hope to see the result?

... nickname of Aphte in these green lands. I am a proud and spruce fellow of twenty-five summers and my current natural environment is southern France, where they find me habituating near the massif of Luberon, chasing a few handfulls of shrews to survive while working to create shelters for my peers (the last two practices of course cannot be compared with each other). For the factual and less ...

... Chateau de Fontenelles Cuvee Notre Dame 2007 Corbieres: appears sweeter than the Minervois above but structured the same (Grenache replacing mourvedre). +106518, $16.95. 10. Château Val Joanis Tradition Syrah 2006 Luberon: 14% ABV, good syrah hit, nicely priced to sell. +965616, $15.95, QPR: 90. 11. Les Vignerons du Castelas Cotes du Rhone 2007: good syrah Rhone typicity, longer finish, ...

... in the south as possible. At St.Paul de Vence we visited the Miro exhibition at the Fondation Maeght. In Provence we hot-footed around the citadelle of Les Baux before a whistle-stop tour of the Luberon taking in Gordes, Roussillon & Bonnieux. Off the Vallee du Var we stopped at Gilette, Roquesteron, Sigale, LaPenne and Entrevaux. Uli only draws at 'magic hour' when the rays of the ...