Aix-en-Provence has more focus on tourism and offers several hundreds of nice small shops with international standard. You can walk the small pedestrian streets for hours. Many cosy and romantic restaurants. Don’t miss the main street “Cours Mirabeau”. Market days Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Market days in our area:
Cotignac Tuesdays St. Maximin Wednesdays Carcés Saturdays
Lourges Tuesdays Brignoles Saturdays & Wednesdays

Sights worth while:
Lot of markets, restaurants, museums, wine tasting, galleries and places worth seeing in or outside other villages in the area.

Our full-day tour favorites:

Grand Canyon du Verdon With lunch in Moustieres.
Gorges du Verdon In a small boat that you rent.
St Tropez Expensive lunch in the harbour.
Le Lavandou The beach of St Clair and evening sun in Bormes- les- Mimosas.
Cassis Seafood in the genuine harbour. Best beach “Bestouan” south-east of center.
Aix-en-Provence Breakfast at Cours Mirabeau and a full days shopping or dinner.
Luberon Valley With lunch in Fontaine-de-Vaucluse.

In our guidebooks you find these and other places, tours, restaurants and lots of other interesting things to see and do. Sit in the sofa with a map and plan your next day’s tour. When you choose small roads the journey itself is an experience. But if you feel like exploring something that is situated further away take the “Autoroute”, French highways are of a high standard but they charge you for using them.