Article: A cheap Provence pad that's a ski chalet too; Looking for a Provence home? Forget the pricy plains and run to the hills where cheap homes can still be found, reports Nigel Lewis.

AS THE plane flew over Provence on its approach to Marseilles airport, it was easy to see why the region, which surrounds this southern French port, is a favourite haunt of the British.

It's not only its verdant plains and steep valleys; there are 300 days of dry, warm weather a year, uncluttered roads, a rural lifestyle and eye- catching properties in which to live.

Author Peter Mayle wrote about doing up and living in a 200-year-old farmhouse in the Luberon area of Provence in the early Nineties. The trouble is his first two books about the region, A Year In Provence and its follow-up, Toujours Provence, made it a very popular place to move to in ...

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