Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A video overview details Provence's lavender landscapes, historic villages, and travel rhythms, outlining locations and bloom ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover travel, specializing in adventure and the great outdoors. Rows of purple, fragrant flowers are a treat to see and smell.

In Provence, summer has a colour. From late June into July, parts of southern France turn purple as rows of lavender stretch across hills, plateaus and village roads. The fields look almost painted, ...

It will still be a while before we can enjoy Provence’s famous lavender fields, but that doesn’t make racing in the south of France any less beautiful. The Tour de la Provence is once again on the ...

Vibrant flower fields bloom around the world every spring and summer. Amsterdam is famous for its tulips, Texas for its ...

Every year in August the Provence town of Sault is drenched in the scent of lavender. Mothers and their babies, schoolchildren, cranky old men and their dogs, everybody smells of lavender. In Sault, ...