Getting here:
Fly to Marseille (100km - 1h15) or Nice (118km - 1h15) with EasyJet or Toulon/St Tropez (68km - 1h) with Ryanair (operates only some months).
Train TGV to Aix-en-Provence (100km 1h10) or Les Arcs (38km 40 mins).
Drive from Calais/Boulogne (approx. 10 hours). Motorway A8 Avignon/Nice, exit Brignoles (12km - 10 mins).
Buses and taxis to and from Brignoles.
Shopping etc:
The village has good shops within 3 minutes walk on the flat - including a small supermarket, Georgette (grocer/newsagent) open every day, baker, post office, honey shop, café and good restaurant. The wine from the co-op is excellent. Carcès is a small market town (8 mins) and has a good supermarket (Intermarché) with butcher and fishmonger, chemists, a Credit Agricole bank/hole in the wall, cafés, restaurants and a great little market on Saturday mornings. Cotignac (10 mins) has a beautiful square full of cafés and restaurants - it's a perfect spot to spend a few hours watching the world go by, the best patisserie, antique shops, cinema and market on Tuesday mornings. Brignoles (15 mins) is the nearest town with supermarkets (Leclerc, Casino and Soukazur the Arab supermarket) and an excellent large market on Saturday mornings.
Art/architecture/gardens:
Abbey du Thoronet, 12th and early 13th cent, Cistercian. La Cité radieuse in Marseille, by Corbusier. His wooden cabanon on the beach at Cap Martin with Eileen Grey's white square house beside it. Foster's Musée du préhistoire in Quinson. Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul de Vence. Domaine du Rayol in Rayol Canadel by Gilles Clément. The Menton gardens include Serre de la Madonne, Laurence Johnson's garden recently restored.
Other Activities:
canoeing
