Visit Provence with me
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- čas přidán 13. 01. 2023
- Bonjour!
In this video I'm taking you with me on my trip to visit friends in Provence, in the south of France. I absolutely love this part of France and I guess you'll see why!
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The Bed & Breakfast I stayed at: www.sweetlodges.fr
Thanks for being here!
Marloes
Find us on Instagram:
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www.marloeshalmans.com
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www.thehappyatworkagency.nl
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I've been to Gordes a few times before. It's like it is a different place in the winter and in the summer. In the summer it is over crowded with tourists, and the only time it's not scorching hot is very early in the morning or late in the evening. We stayed twice at a beautiful B&B at the end of the village so we had peace and quiet. Provence is also one of my favourite places. I'm always thinking that I'll end up there when I retire :)
True! I love visiting all these places in the off season. It is a completely different experience!
Thank you for taking us along. Just gorgeous scenery, architecture, and food!
My pleasure!
So beautiful! Provence seems to be a magical place. Thank you for showing us these gorgeous places.
It truly is magical!
Your wonderful video is a feast for the eyes and balm for the soul. 🥇
I absolutely embrace your sense of aesthetics and visual appeal. Your channel is a place where the restless mind will find tranquility. 😍
Oh thank you so much for these kind words!
@@FrenchCountryLife Thank you for letting us see the beauty of France and your beautiful home and cabin. Perhaps you should turn your perfect taste into a new profession ? I could see you taking on interior design projects quite easily. 🪄
That is my take on Marloes' channel as well.
@@Dr.med.GeorgeGrant Thank you for the suggestion! I have had some requests and helped out here and there. But I quit one of my businesses in 2021 to have more time for the two remaining businesses that I run, next to managing all our own renovations, so I don't see myself turning this idea into a proper business right now. Although I thoroughly enjoy helping others design beautiful spaces so when I get a request I can't really say no :)
@@FrenchCountryLife Your immense talent and great sense of style will not go unnoticed and some day you will find yourself doing what you love doing the most. 🤞🏻😊
Loved your tour of Provence and you'll have to take us back again in Spring. I was there last May and fell in love with all of France!
I love your gentle but fulfilling content of French countryside 😊 from Ireland countryside
Merci!
Thanks Marloes for sharing your Provence escape - temperature looks mild judging by how everyone is dressed - is that usual for Jan? Where I live in Tasmania there are lots of vineyards & vignerons say comparable climate to south of France! I think our winter looks & feels colder than Provence! 😂
It was about 10 degrees Celsius during the daytime and it was 2 or 3 at night.
Tasmanie on voyage vraiment sur CZcams .
I certainly agree with your fascination of this village, it is beautiful in the evening sunlight! Maybe in time you will find yourself buying a Chateau or smaller home in this quaint village. Thank you for taking us along on your French journey!
My pleasure!
Such a peaceful and pleasant trip. Thanks for taking us along!
My pleasure!
Thank you for taking us along ! I truly enjoy watching your channel.
My pleasure!
Thank you for the visit, I haven't been there since 2007. I agree, it is a magical place.
My pleasure!
Marloes, salutations chaleureuses de Chicago! Cette petite randonnee sublime du Leberon me rappelle une semaine magique il y a 12 ans deja! De ma base a Avignon, j'ai pu visiter la merveille qu'est Gorde, ainsi qu'Ile-sur-sorgue, Senanque et les champs de lavande, Nimes et d'autres aussi. J'espere retourner un de ces jours, cette region de France est franchement epoustouflante!
That was wonderful!! Thank you for the beautiful get away!!
My pleasure!
Thank you for taking us with you Marloes. This was beautifully shot and Provence is absolutely stunning. I haven’t visited for many years so greatly appreciated this x
Binging on videos I missed. So fun. I love following you about on your special trips and daily routine. So glad you take time for yourself. So important to maintain your sanity and get inspiration🌹💙🌹
Thank you!
Such a wonderful feast for the eyes. I have watched all your videos in the past 3 weeks while keeping warm in our cold country of Canada, being inspired by your words and the scenery around. Looking forward to following your journey...
What a wonderful vlog, Provence is simply beautiful 😍 I didn’t want it to end. Thank you….feeling so cosy now. ❤
As usual you share a beautiful tour through the French countryside into the most charming of places,,,,,you certainly have an eye for composition in your videos , even the famous blue of the skiesover Provence comes through,,,I am never disappointed,,,thanks for sharing,,,where are we going next ? Cherryl from Canada
Haha! I have so many ideas for visits to friends and places in France! So who knows where we'll go next!
@@FrenchCountryLife I can be ready at a moments notice ,,,,well truth be told like everyone else on here I am already awaiting the next vid......keep smiling lovely lady,,,Cherryl from Canada
Merci à vous. vous êtes un véritable baume pour le cœur ! C'est un grand plaisir de partager tous ces moments avec vous !
merci 🙏
Thanknyou so much for having virtual visitors on your trip. I have found a new destination I would love to visit 😊 so relaxing and such fun places to visit - Merci 💐
My pleasure!
Thank you Marloes for sharing your visit to Provence and it was nice seeing Sam too!😍
Thank you for taking us.. Love the peace you've found
Hello Marloes! Thank you for taking us along on your trip to Provence. It was a feast for the eyes...Loved seeing the Carrousel, there's just something so whimsical about them. The architecture, the little streets, the bakeries, the farmer's market, all make me long to be there. Glad you took some time for yourself. ❤
My pleasure!
Thank you for taking us along to Provence🙏💕
Thanks for watching!
What a lovely trip! Thank you for taking us along.
A beautiful video, thank you for showing us.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video with my morning tea today.. what a magical place! Incredible.. thank you so much for taking us along💕 It was a little get away for me today🤗 felt like I was right there! xo
just came across your channel because we are going to be moving to the South of France from the UK in the near future. Really love your videos and content, just stunning and gives us a really good insight. Provence is most definitely one of the areas that we will strongly consider. Salut!
Oh how exciting!! Happy for you! Welcome to the channel ✨
Thank you for taking us along with you to Provence! You have permission from us all to take us with you wherever you go, even if it is just in your imagination.
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Yes, love Provence! I thoroughly enjoyed travelling with you and meeting up with your friends.
Marloes, I love France. Thank you for sharing it with me. Gordes is the most beautiful place. The b & b where you stay was lovely. The French love their cats and dogs clearly. In a better world I would be in France never to leave her.
Gorgeous! A wonderful meditation!
Good memories from long ago ! 🙏💕🌷
Thank you for bringing us with you! Absolutely loved this vlog, beautiful!
Thanks for watching!
So beautiful!! I did not want the video to end
Hello Marloes So So enjoyed travelling to Provence with you, what a truly wonderful place. I went on the website of Les Choses Simples, what a beautiful shop, i've ordered some beautiful items
Oh good to hear! Their items are beautiful and we love their soaps and candles!
I have to pause halfway through to comment.. this is such a visual pleasure. Thank you for taking me to explore. So beautiful!!!!
My pleasure!
Firstly a beautiful vlog Provence omg what magnificent place I want to go unfortunately stuck in the states ,Thank you for taking us along xo
my pleasure!
we are researching the Pyrenees both the Spain and French side.. but may also explore South of France. Provence is a great idea we had not contemplated.
It’s beautiful!
Looks like such an amazing trip! Provence is on my bucket list of places to visit. A collector of my work goes there every two years and sends me beautiful pictures as inspiration for paintings. Thanks for sharing! New subscriber 😊
I loved the beautiful soaps so very much!
Your stunning video brought back so many sweet memories of Provence. Merci for sharing. I always look forward to your lovely vlogs. Bonne annee!
Merci!
The Provence is special - the history, buildings, scent and serenity. I visited many years ago and always wanted to come back.
I love it!
Thank you for taking us along on this beautiful trip!! It was wonderful.
My pleasure!
Ontzettend mooi Marloes! We hebben weer zo genoten van de prachtige beelden! zoveel schoonheid! lieve groeten van ons uit NL!!!!!!
Dank je wel!
Awesome video. I always feel most attracted by Uzès, which, as a French colleague told me, is not precisely Provence as being west of the Rhone, but it is as amazing as you can imagine.
Yes I know Uzès very well, we visited often. It’s not Provence indeed but a gorgeous region as well!
Exquisite!! Thank you so for taking us along on your travels!!
my pleasure!
Merci pour cette belle balade ! La Provence est plus belle encore hors saison
Loved this! Whet our appetite for our journey in May. Thank you!
I had the best day with you, thank you for visiting. It was lovely to see Provence through your eyes, definitely made me want to return to Gordes and L’Isles sur la sorgue😍.
Me too! Thank you for showing me around!
Thank you ❤, I needed this today
I LOVE Provence! It is indeed magical..
Oh, that was such a wonderful video! I felt like I was right there with you in that beautiful part of the world!❤️🇨🇦
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My most favorite destination!! ❤
Thanks! The Provence stays lovely forever.
Thank You so much for sharing your trip to Provence it is exquisitely beautiful actually made me cry Simply Magical …..You sharing this exquisite experience gave me the opportunity I never ever have to see such a amazing place and the way you filmed it seemed I was coming along….Again Thanks
Thank you for watching!
Rebeca and I love you both! ❤We plan to “retire” in France 🇫🇷 in a couple years and enjoy your channels very much. Merci! James, Stockholm, Sweden
Sounds like a perfect plan!
This is my first time adding a comment thank you so much ! Beautiful . I have been watching your videos for some time thank you for showing your life with us what a pleasure it is . regards Lesley in anglesey north Wales.🙋💐
Thanks!
I just fell in love with Provence thanks to you! I need to have a visit there! So beautiful
It is magical!
A lyrical depiction of sunset on burnt orange buildings; lemon meringue pie; a carousel; a waterwheel; friends and alone time.
Merci!
A tí gracias por mostrarnos Francia 🥰
My pleasure!
Hello, I’m a fairly new subscriber to your channel. I’m am enjoying your content immensely.
I started watching when my daughter was in France for her honeymoon last month. I introduced her to your channel yesterday.
Imagine our surprise when the soaps she gifted me came from the same shop (the first). She also recognized as did I from her photographs quite a few areas in which you filmed.
It had been a long time since anyone from my immediate family was on French soil. My great grandfather and almost my entire French family came to the USA in the early 20th Century from number 30 Department.
I’ve not been, it’s been a dream of mine to spend spring through early fall in France. Buy a renovated cottage. Find an area that is not too hot or cold. Don’t care for large cities to live. Don’t want a car. Lol. Maybe a village that is close to public transportation so I can travel to Paris or other parts of France and Europe.
Thank you so much for your content. It has become one of the most delightful parts of my day. To sit with a coffee and enjoy your beautiful French country life. ❤
Thank you so much for sharing this and for being here!
So enjoyable ❤
So pretty, thank you for the walk around
My pleasure!
This Is what Dreams are made of! thank you for sharing
My pleasure!
Thank you for sharing your trip with us! I’ll have to check out your friends channel since I’m from California too.🤗
Merci!
Riding along (tea and biscotti on board too) was a delight... almost as if my bed had wings!
je viens de découvrir ta chaîne et wow c’est une vraie pépite🤍 la Provence est incroyablement belle. merci pour cette vidéo !!
Merci et bienvenue!
great job shooting the beautiful towns I live by! So funny how I was meant to move to your area/Beaune and the world had a different decision for me and I ended up living in Provence. they are both so beautiful in such different ways :-)
Yes, and I can see why you fell for Provence!
Awesome video!
Such a beautiful place 😊
It sure is!
You video give me peace love it thanks .
What a magical place! We visited the Provence region as part of a trip to France in 2008.
We are due to pay another visit, would you agree?
Thank you for sharing your recent travels there!
Looooong overdue! ;)
Oh wow, over too soon. Beautiful and inspiring. Thank you Marloes for showing us the beauty that still exists in the world. You'd never think so if you listened to awful msm. 🙏
Exactly! The world is way more beautiful and there is so much more love between people than is being shared and shown. I remind myself of that when I get overwhelmed by the chaos and horrific events in our world.
🥰🇨🇦 Gorde is magnificent ❤️.
Have you read Peter Mayle’s novel “Hotel Pastis”? It is set in Isle sur la Sorgue. We love this place, and the markets are fantastic.
Yes! I loved it!
lovely video. thank you.
We thank you for a really nice video!
My pleasure!
How absolutely beautiful!
Merci!
Believe it or not, i have the same amazing feeling towards PROVENCE!
Thank you ❤
Weer zo een prachtig filmpje 👌👌👌👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️
Dank je wel!
Quite beautiful, must visit again verry soon
I could go every week! Never get tired of all the beauty!
Hi, Marloes, Greetings from California! We love your channel! Your videos are such a source of peaceful inspiration. My husband and I are coming to Beaune (and then to Bordeaux) to stay for about a month. We are pretty sure that we are going to house hunt while we are there. What advice would you offer to two almost-retirees that are ready to invest in the dream? We are really torn between rural and village homes. We aren't sure if the language barrier will be too big. We are hoping to find a community like you have. Would you recommend Beaune as a home for French language novices? Are there other towns or regions that you would send us to? Any help is greatly appreciated. Merci! -April
I think this kind of life change and choice is very personal. Really, you just need to trust your gut feeling and as you visit places feel if you see yourself living there. Beaune has a very International vibe, even though it is a super small city (only about 25.000 inhabitants). The Bordeaux region and south and western France have many English immigrants, from what I hear from people living there. In any case, you wil have to learn French if you really want to integrate as many people don't speak English and the French will be open to meeting and interacting with you way more if you make an effort to speak French.
I don't know if you live in a rural area now? We love living in a tiny village, but do realize that you will always need a car. There is hardly any public transport and it may be more convenient in the longer run to have shops or first necessities nearby. Just explore and follow your gut! The right place will show up.
Amazing! You mentioned not buying a house in the Provence area...how come? I absolutely love the Bourgogne area that you are in, the green, the rolling hills....wherever you go, you can't go wrong in France. :) Ever been to Brittany?
The Provence is very crowded in summer and way too hot for me in summer as well. And I don’t deal with the mistral winds that are in many parts of Provence very well either. I love it and love going there but I couldn’t live there.
Wonderful, thank you. 😊
You're welcome!
My HAPPY PLACE 🎉
Hi Marloes. I've just come across your channel and have been binge-watching. Thank you for taking us to Provence. You say, "I knew we shouldn't live there." As someone contemplating retirement in France, I'd love to know why you say that. Why did you choose Bourgogne in the end?
Welcome to the channel!
I think the choice for a place to live is very personal. For me Provence is too crowded in summer, as homes are in demand I find them overpriced (you get more value for money elsewhere), the summers are too hot for me and I am not able to do anything because of the heat and I want to be outdoors and active every day, I don’t deal with the Mistral winds there very well either (they are year round, not all the time but occasionally but I find them uncomfortable) and most importantly I personally believe that the area will have increased issues with the already large lack of water because of droughts. But for everything else such as the style of the buildings, the food, the vibe of the area, the plants that grow there, the nature and scenery, the people and even their charming accent, I feel it is a dream place. I love to visit but am at home in Burgundy.
Thank you Marloes for your thoughtful answer. It's so valuable to know the thoughts of someone who has gone through the experience. I wouldn't handle the heat well either! I'm seeing the floods on the west and south-west and thinking you made the right choice. 💐
Omg this is so beautiful and calming. May i know where is the place in 9:43 timing? The view is magnificent!
It’s in Gordes still!
Loved this video. I have lived and worked near Gorde many seasons. What season was this and where were people😂
This was in January! This is what French villages look like when all the tourists are gone and life goes back to normal :)
@@FrenchCountryLife Ahhh January. Thanks 🙏
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Greetings from Poland ;)
Merci! Thank you for being here!
Merci Marloes, je hebt me weer een aanval van positieve heimwee bezorgd. Wat een land, fantastisch!
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Did you learn your French back in the Netherlands in school?
Yes I studied French literature in university for 5 years!
I visited Aix last summer .. Merci de me reprendre 😢
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Lovely calm video. Beautiful country side. I wanted to mention that I can't read your sub titles. They are to small even with glasses. Hope you can enlarge slightly. TY
I am sorry, I didn't realize. Are you watching on your phone? I edit using my laptop so the screen is bigger of course...
@@FrenchCountryLife yes on my phone.
It was a very pleasant coincidence meeting you in Aix. I hope we can meet again. 🤍🍀
YES! That was absolutely so unexpected! Loved meeting you and your husband!