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I have a lot of visitors to the website asking me where to find a classic Provencal tablecloth, a good map of the French Riviera, an easy French recipe cookbook and so many other different things.

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Well, I do not have an Online Store and I am always giving tips where to find the products that YOU visitors are looking for.

As most of people today, I am very busy and I do not really have time to go shopping.

When I am on holidays, I love to go shopping  as I have time.

At home we buy about 90% of our “needs” online, doing so we save money and time...

From my brand new Acer laptop with Windows 7, our new car (bought last year) or the second hand sophisticated blender that my wife just bought on EBay.

I forgot my new BlackBerry Bold (I am addictive to BlackBerry for many years!).

My wife loves Apple; she bought the new iPhone with a larger memory last May.

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In October she had for her birthday the Macbook Air, the thinnest and lightest Mac notebook ever.

Mac notebooks can run now Windows so my wife has Windows 7 installed on her computer.

You make also our grocery shopping online,we order, they deliver and all is perfect!

Ok, enough about our purchases!

What about YOU Dear Visitor?

Well as you can guess, I have a good knowledge today how to and where to buy online after years of practising!

It came naturally to my mind to open an Online Riviera Store for the visitors of my website.

Three French Riviera Stores actually:

Online Canada Riviera Store - Online UK Riviera Store - Online US Riviera Store

(alphabetical order)

Provencal lavender dried flowers in Provencal fabric bags / French Riviera Stores Homepage - www.about-french-riviera.com
More than 70% of the visitors of my website are living in these three countries, that’s the reason why I have chosen these countries to open these Online Riviera Stores.

In all the cases, these three French Riviera Stores have all an international shipping service, you can order from any of them from anywhere in the world; Mexico or Sydney!

You can compare shipping costs by country; choose your shipping speed and product category when buying from one the three Stores.

Having three distinct Online French Riviera Stores for Canada, UK and US is a + that I offer to YOU visitor.

I mainly use these services myself for our online shopping (alphabetical order) :

These websites have banners, links and so on my website, we use them we know them; and here we share with YOU!

For my Online French Riviera Stores I choose to partner with Amazon.

Why?

First, they have an outstanding customer service!

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They are proactively committed to monitoring their customer's satisfaction by allowing every customer to provide feedback.

Amazon features prices from other retailers alongside their own prices.

I have always the best deals available online!

When I use a price comparison website as Shopzilla / Bizrate (the best to my point of view), the best deal is most the time on Amazon!

Amazon has also a great website!

They are reliable and accurate.

Important to my point of view: they have also an excellent and fast shipping system.

Everything is always fine with them, a good company compared too many available on the Internet which are sometimes not reliable at all...

I just give here my own experience along the years as a customer of Amazon.

With Amazon I always find what I am looking for...

People think often Books when talking about Amazon.

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It is true that if you are looking for a particular book and you don’t find it anywhere else; they are great chances that you find it on Amazon.

But Amazon is NOT only books these days; they have a HUGE array of excellent quality products display on their website and most importantly always at the right price.

From books to the best knife, Amazon has become the Walmart of the internet!

Amazon runs one of the most successful and dominating online business in the history of the internet.

Amazon shopping is safe and easy, I've been using it personally since 1997; I shop at Amazon all the time.

I was a little surprised this time around when I went to find a fisher price dollhouse for my daughter.

Green olives with aromatics herbs in can from Fontvieille en Provence / French Riviera Stores Homepage - www.about-french-riviera.com
It is of a great help when I need a gift for my family.

All is there when I look for something.

I love Amazon for the selection, the product reviews and the availability.

For all the reasons above I have chosen Amazon for my Online French Riviera Stores.

French Riviera Stores where you will find products of the French Riviera - Cote d’Azur - Provence - South of France - France and just for YOU...

But NOT ONLY; many other GREAT products are available!

In My Stuff category, I add only products that my family and I know on the stores.

Listings of products for different purposes and that we found GREAT as an example for me: Windows7.

Products in this category are products that We bought and used.

They are display in small listings to bring you the best of our experience of shopping online - Only!

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Enhance Your Online Experience Shopping with French Riviera Stores!

Some products displayed in the French Riviera Stores have been advised by people like YOU: visitors of the website who bought and used such or such product!

I may time to time add notes to a product to share my own experience, tips and so on and also for the ones I receive from visitors. .

I do not endorse a product that I do not know or use (please consider here that I am not YOU. I can’t guarantee that you will happy with a product as I am).

If the product that you are looking for is not in the listings please use the search box.

Enter your keyword(s) and hit the search button, simple!

Original Calissons d'Aix en Provence (marzipan candy) / French Riviera Stores Homepage - www.about-french-riviera.com

Results will automatically be displayed below "Your Search" with pictures, prices and ratings!

You will certainly find what you are looking for!

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Note: Online French Riviera Stores are updated on a regular basis,bookmark this page and come back often or to discover new trends and products.

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What to Buy from the French Riviera - Cote d’Azur – Provence – South of France?

Best buys to be found in my region are those that reflect the character of the area - its geographical blessings of bountiful produce and its historic traditions of arts and crafts.

While the chic boutiques of Saint Tropez or Cannes may rival Paris in predicting the latest fashion trend, your souvenirs of my region should be far more timeless.

Many of the products described below can be found in Online french Riviera Stores.

Goat’s milk cheese, wrapped in chestnut leaves / French Riviera Stores Homepage - www.about-french-riviera.com
The evocative scents, colours and flavours they offer will help to keep your memories alive throughout the darkest winter months, and longer - at least until your first or next visit.
  • The scents

    • Lavender is one of the perfumes of my region. Provencal lavender is used to perfume a wide range of goods, but most popular are pretty Provencal fabric bags full of the dried flowers.
    • Bath times can be heady with the scent of local flowers and herbs, captured in delightful bottles.
    • Marseille’s famous olive oil soaps, very efficient and natural.
    • Orange water from Vallauris.
  • The Flavours

    No-one should leave my region without at least a jar of olives or a bottle of extra virgin olive oil, but consider also easy-to-pack tins, jars and boxes or preserved fruits, scented honey or savoury purees-prettily packaged, they can also make ideal gifts.

    • Crystallized chestnuts or Marrons Glacés (I loveeee them!).
    • Marrons glacés or crystallized-chestnuts in English / French Riviera Stores Homepage - www.about-french-riviera.com
    • Goat’s milk cheese, wrapped in chestnut leaves.
    • A spicy garnish for fish soup.
    • Green or black olives with Provencal herbs.
    • Extra virgin olive oil (tastier and healthier than virgin olive oil or simple olive oil)
    • Pureed salt cod - Cod Brandade or Brandade de Morue.
    • Almond and orange conserve.
    • Lavender honey.

Miscellaneous

    Lavender, honey, almond and hazelnut-confit from Valensole / French Riviera Stores Homepage - www.about-french-riviera.com
  • Glassware: Glassblowing is a modern Provencal craft. At Biot you can watch glassblowers at work, as well as buy examples of their art to take home.
  • Pottery: Look for traditional tiles, cookware and storage jars made from terracotta, formal china of Moustiers faience or art-works of sandstone and/or clay.
  • Terracotta Santons: Provencal Christmas cribs are peopled with these gaily painted traditional figures. Most crafts shops offer a good choice of characters.
  • Olive Wood: As rich in colour and texture as its oil, the wood of the olive tree can be sculpted into works of art or turned into practical kitchenware.
  • Hunting Knives: The huntsmen’s shops of my region are an unexpected source for the perfect picnic or kitchen knife, safe yet razor sharp.
  • Provencal Fabrics: using patterns and colours dating back for centuries, these traditional prints are usually sold by the metre and made up into fashionable items.
These are some of the marvellous and local products that you can’t miss out!
Orange and almond spread / French Riviera Stores Homepage - www.about-french-riviera.com

The list is endless; I stop here as I believe that you have a good overview of the products that you can find in my beautiful area: the French Riviera - Cote d’Azur – Provence – South of France.

You can also purchase most of these beautiful and/or delicious products from Online French Riviera Stores.

Once again, I keep short listings in the Online French Riviera Stores.

If you dot find what you are looking for, please use the search box on the top of the right column in any page of the Stores.

You will certainly find what you are looking for!

Enjoy!

Have fun shopping online French Riviera Stores, live better.

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