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                    [Title] => A week in Provence
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It is only on our third day in France, at around 7 p.m., that I finally understand what this light is all about. Awash in a golden glow, everything looks exaggerated including the color of the soil.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133933 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1761978 [AuthorName] => Tanya T. Lara [SectionName] => Travel and Tourism [SectionUrl] => travel-and-tourism [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 701065 [Title] => Provence: A tale of two cities [Summary] =>

In the popular imagination, Provence is sometimes equated with Tuscany — both are regions that don’t really have a specific top-drawer tourist attraction (no Futbol Club de Barcelona, no red-light district with prostitutes in display windows), but where you can live in a converted farmhouse with 1930s plumbing, the food is good, and the countryside is scenic.

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Last season, it was all about the London high streets turned catwalks.

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After making its name in fashion, Commedes Garçons blazed a trail in the perfume world with the very same qualities that made it a fashion iconoclast: these weren’t your typical designer creations but “anti-perfumes” that were avant-garde, unconventional and unafraid to mix the synthetic with the natural to come up with entirely new aromas that were never, ever smelled before.

[DatePublished] => 2010-06-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133945 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1772097 [AuthorName] => Therese Jamora-Garceau [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 580566 [Title] => Drowning evil with good [Summary] =>

We celebrated (April 29) the feast of St. Catherine of Siena, the 14th-century gutsy Dominican tertiary credited for bringing back the Pope from Avignon, France to Rome, and for establishing peace among the warring Italian city-states then.

[DatePublished] => 2010-06-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134343 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096945 [AuthorName] => Fr. Roy Cimagala [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 336195 [Title] => Around the south of France in 80 days [Summary] => It’s great to be back in Manila. It’s taken me nearly four months to settle in and finish an incredibly, unbelievably stressful semester, but I’ve finally gotten my two feet planted firmly on Philippine soil. Our balikbayan boxes crammed with all our things from France (in our desperate attempt to avoid paying any overweight charges) have finally arrived. The new batch of exchange students to several different countries is starting their new semester and preparing for their own junior term abroad. [DatePublished] => 2006-05-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136238 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1529090 [AuthorName] => Monique Buensalido [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 311341 [Title] => Around the south of France in 80 days [Summary] => LILLE, France – When people think of France, they always think of going up the Eiffel Tower, perusing the Mona Lisa in the Louvre, looking at the majestic Arc de Triomphe, taking the funicular to Sacre Coeur. They think of high fashion, sidewalk cafés, artists, wine, and berets. In other words, they think of Paris.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136238 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1529090 [AuthorName] => Monique Buensalido [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 263048 [Title] => Reena Francisco’s dream food holiday [Summary] => I was forever on a diet and conscious about how I looked. Vanity was the name of the game," declares the bubbly Reena Francisco. "But due to a forthcoming kidney transplant, I began loading up on prescribed steroids. As expected, I was hungry – famished was more like it – and it was simply impossible to control my appetite. After the major surgery and a new lease on life, this is the new me – and that’s many pounds later."
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133890 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1235016 [AuthorName] => CITIZEN OF THE WORLD By Edu Jarque [SectionName] => Travel and Tourism [SectionUrl] => travel-and-tourism [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 186148 [Title] => Avignon: The City of Popes [Summary] => Fields and fields of lavender welcomed us as we drove through Provence in the south of France. We smelled wild thyme and lavender in the air and heard the symphony of cicadas perched on red-tile roofs.

Provence means dazzling light and rugged, rocky countryside interspersed with vineyards, fields of lavender and olive groves. The Romans staked their first claim here and left riches behind; Van Gogh and Cezanne taught us to see it through their eyes.
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