Summer changes some destinations completely. In Banff, the season brings long mountain days around lakes, trails, shuttles, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It has become a symbol of Provence in southern France, but there is a warning that it’s under threat from climate change. Lavender ...

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 ...

Deep below the once purple but now wintering and dormant fields of Provençal lavender, something is rotten. It will not make itself known until spring and summer, when the cicadas – another symbol of ...

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, ...