Our 10-working day vacation by way of the Luberon and the Côte d’Azur was excellently structured in all its details—hotels, eating places, museums, and more—by France-dependent journey adviser Philip Haslett, of Kairos Journey—the person to get hold of ([email protected]). The motels were impeccably hospitable, each individual with what the French contact an acceuil chaleureux—not just a heat welcome but a single that, in accordance to a French dictionary, manifests “de l’enthousiasme, de l’ardeur.” Nor did we have a poor food, a reassuring fact for those of us who from time to time question, and normally pray for, the continuities of French civilization. La Bastide de Gordes, in the eponymous little…