How to Have the Best Possible Trip in Provence

BY ADAM GOPNIK

 

PUBLISHED: MAR 5, 2023 in Town & Country Magazine

 

 

Our 10-day trip through the Luberon and the Côte d’Azur was excellently organized in all its details—hotels, restaurants, museums, and more—by France-based travel adviser Philip Haslett, of Kairos Travel (now French Promise) —the man to contact (philip@french-promise.com). The hotels were impeccably hospitable, each with what the French call an acceuil chaleureux—not just a warm welcome but one that, according to a French dictionary, manifests “de l’enthousiasme, de l’ardeur.” Nor did we have a bad meal, a reassuring fact for those of us who sometimes doubt, and often pray for, the continuities of French civilization.