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Mazaugues Var Village on Beyond
The little Var village of Mazaugues is now online in Beyond. Located in the hills southwest of Brignoles, this small village has some nice hiking, a good café, a hotel-restaurant open all year, and an ice-making museum. This photo is...

Tourves in the Var, on Beyond
We've added the town of Tourves to Beyond. This little town is located between St Maximin and Brignoles in the western part of the Var (east of Aix-en-Provence). Tourves has some excellent old fountains and lots of chapels and castle...

Beyond at www.provencebeyond.com
Beyond's web host has made some great technical improvements, and managed to cause serious problems with accessing Beyond. You can still find us at www.provencebeyond.com, although our www.beyond.fr doesn't seem to work for the moment. It's all the same great...

Beyond website unavailable for a few hours
We apologize but our ProvenceBeyond website will be offline for about 4 hours. Our host is doing a big technical update and transferring our site to new equipment. Russ

Belgentier with King and Mousquetaires
We've added the Var village of Belgentier to Beyond. A Medieval village in the lush Gapeau valley north of Toulon, Belgentier was famously visited by the Sun King, Louis XIV, in 1660. Less famously, the royal party include the Mousquetaires...

Méounes-lès-Montrieux village added to Beyond
We visited the Var village of Méounes-lès-Montrieux on Saturday, one of the rare sunny days during the 2010 monsoon season in the South of France. Méounes-lès-Montrieux is a small villages tucked in a very green valley north of Toulon in...

Cannes 2010 February - Sunny and a bit of Snow
The day after the amazing Snow in Cannes on the Côte d'Azur. Friday, 12 Feb 2010, and the snow blanketing Cannes is almost gone. This snow-sprinkled beach sported snowmen yesterday, but they didn't last long under the sun. It is...

More Snow-in-Grasse 2010 Photos
And a few more photos from the snow day in Grasse this Thursday (11 Feb 2010). This photo (below) is the main street, Jeu de Ballon. The road going up to the left is the Route Napoleon exiting Grasse to...

Snow in Grasse Feb 2010, Photos
Thursday, 11 February 2010, and some serious snow in Grasse. First time this has happened in quite a few years. This is a view of Grasse old-town from below. The Fragonard Parfumery on Bvd Fragonard in Grasse (below). The Jardin...

Michelin Bib Gourmand 2010 Guide in Beyond
We've added a page about the 2010 edition of the Michelin Bib Gourmand Guide, that was published on the first of February. We've included pages with listings of the Bib Gourmand (great dining for reasonable prices) restaurants in Provence: -...

Beyond 2010 Calendars Updated
We've updated the Beyond Calendars for 2010. Starting with the 2010 Pottery-Markets Calendar, which has just been added with this-year's dates for the pottery markets in Provence. We found a lot of events to add to Beyond's Current-Events Calendar, listing...

Rocbaron Medieval village in the Var
The Var village of Rocbaron has been added to Beyond. Located in the green hills south of Brignoles and north of Toulon, this little village is watched over by the ruins of a Medieval castle, and has some good hiking...

Strolling Cannes with 2D Characters
We had a stroll through Cannes today, celebrating one of the first dry and sunny days in the past few weeks. From the port, up the hill to visit the chateau, then a leisurely stroll through the ancient fortified site...

La Bastides-des-Jourdans,
These ancient villages of Provence are newly added to Beyond. La Bastides-des-Jourdans (Vaucluse) is in the eastern end of the Luberon mountains, SW of Manosque. La Tour-d'Aigues (Vaucluse) in the southern Luberon is SW of La Bastide-des-Joursdans. Jouques (Bouches-du-Rhone), is...

Market Days, by Day, by Day, ...
Beyond's Calendar of Periodic Markets, by Day has given birth to a set of Calendar Pages for each individual day. From the main Periodic Markets, by Day page, click on Daily Mkts, Saturdays, Sundays, ... Fridays for a list of...

Train des Merveilles work Feb-Apr 2010
Also known as the Nice-Cuneo Train, the Train des Merveilles will be doing work on the rail line between the stations of Drap-Cantaron and Breil-sur-Roya between 8 Feb and 30 April 21010. Service will be provided for that section by...

Beyond 2010 Calendar of Annual Events
We've updated Beyond's Calendar of Annual Events, for each month of this new year. The main changes are the new dates for the wandering holidays, such as Easter (Pâques), in April.

Peymeinade, in the Alpes-Maritimes
The village of Peymeinade has been added to Beyond. Located west of Grasse, the village is more-or-less a café or shopping stop on the Grasse - Draguignan road. But there is a pretty little old-village hidden away a few hundred...

Cipières village photos improved
Cipières is a little mountain village in the hills north of Grasse, in the Alpes-Maritimes. We've added one new photo, showing Cipières in the snow last winter. And we've improved the display size and quality of the other village photos....

La Roquebrussanne and Forcalqueiret in the Var
Two new Var villages have arrived in Beyond. La Roquebrussanne is southwest of Brignoles between the Montagne de la Loube and the Massif de la Sainte Baume. The village of Forcalqeiret is south of Brignoles on the farming plains of...

La Roque-d'Anthéron added to Beyond
We've added the village of La Roque-d'Anthéron to Beyond. Famed for its annual international piano concerts in the summer, this medieval village beside the Durance is a next-door neighbor to the Silvacane Abbey, one of the "three Provencal Sisters" Cisercian...

Rians village in the Var, on Beyond
The Medieval Var village of Rians has been added to Beyond. This small village, located northeast of Aix-en-Provence and the Sainte-Victoire mountain, is a frequent café stop on our Beyond trips into the Var, Vaucluse and the Luberon.