It was my first summer living in the South of France. My French was coming along, and, somewhere between bonjour and je ne sais quoi, I decided it was time to take the plunge. My husband, Nicolas, and I would attend our first summer festival. In the summertime, festivals spring up in the seaside villages Read more...: An Archetypal French Festival…Once We Found it
With an estimated 89 million travelers crossing her borders, France was the most visited country in the world in 2017. I’ve been living in this delightful country since 2010 and have been fortunate to visit many of its regions. So this news hardly came as a big surprise. Wherever you decide to go in France, you’ll find that every corner is beautiful...
The painter Cézanne once said of his hometown, "I thought I could leave Aix-en-Provence and be happy elsewhere, but I was wrong.If you are born here, you're doomed. You can live nowhere else" Anyone who has ever visited this sun-washed paradise can understand Cézanne's words.