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Join Us in France Travel Podcast

Cruise Tours in Provence, Episode 56

Join Us in France Travel Podcast

Annie Sargent

History, Art, Lifestyle, Travel, Paris, Places & Travel, Culture, Tour, Language, Monuments, Society & Culture, Visit, France

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2015

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Cruise tours in Provence with Provence native Véronique Flayol. She shares tales of Aix-en-Provence, King René, and the birth of the Calisson. How about a wheelchair accessible cruise tour with wine tasting and gastronomy on the side? But of course!

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0:00.0

And the the This is join us in France episode 56.

0:35.0

Hello, I'm Annie and I am pleased to be talking to you.

0:40.0

Today I bring you a wonderful tour guide from Provence, a lady named Veronique Flayol, who is a native of Provence and

0:49.3

specializes in wheelchair accessible tours in Provence.

0:54.0

She owns a van in which she can take a wheelchair and if she needs to take more than one

0:58.7

wheelchair she can rent a vehicle that can accommodate more. But I really think she goes above and beyond simply being able to take a wheelchair in her vehicle.

1:08.0

She really makes sure that every aspect of your tour, if you need an accessible tour is fully accessible.

1:17.0

The restaurants, the bathrooms, the museums, the whole thing.

1:22.0

She'll take you through roads where you're not going to have any trouble.

1:25.7

So that's a really, really important service

1:30.9

that she offers there.

1:32.3

She also does day tours for cruise passengers and those are always hugely popular in Provence

1:38.0

because when you have just a short stop you really need help getting places you want to see and back to the ship before it sails off.

1:47.0

I got her to say a few words in Provenc Sal, which is a lovely dialect, which I don't speak, but she does quite well.

1:57.0

So that was very fun and also, as you may know, France has, the south of France has some distinctive accents the

2:06.0

South East of France has her accent the the Provenzae accent and the Southwest has my accent which is the Toulouse accent and hers is just absolutely fabulous.

2:19.4

It's beautiful.

2:20.3

It makes me smile just hearing it. It brings the sunshine just

2:25.0

just hearing that that accent.

2:28.0

So it was lovely to hear her say a little bit about

2:31.0

in French. And those of you who speak French will really enjoy that.

2:36.1

Her website is provance-transport.fr. I'll put a link to it in the show notes at join us in France.com

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