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From: Scotland on Sunday | Date: February 24, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

THE wind starts in the Massif Central, rushes through the Rhne valley and kisses you vigorously on both cheeks as you step out of the terminal at Aeroport de Marseille Provence. The combination of the Mistral and dazzling summer sun is an immediate sign that, although you have flown barely 1,000 miles south, this is a very different land.

On the 90-minute car journey west towards Montpellier, along the extensive and well-maintained motorway network, the wind drops and the landscape reveals its parched beauty. The air conditioning is turned up a notch or two: this may be France during a ...

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