14.34.a - Where have you been this summer... France? Or maybe you didn’t get any further than your garden…
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A personal note about France, life, passions, and more… Saturday 31.8.2024
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1. Where have you been this summer, to France? Or maybe you didn’t get any further than your garden…
Let’s take a trip around a selection of 6 superb places in France. Places you may have been to over summer or wish to visit in the future… C’est parti ! Let’s go!
a) A one-day stop-over in Bordeaux by Audrey Le Goff of ‘A Table in France’←
On our way from Brittany down to Basque Country for a week-long Summer vacation, my husband Marc and I stopped for one day and night in Bordeaux. It was the perfect stopping point: a 5 hour drive from our home in Lorient, and after just a 2.5-hour drive to Biarritz, our final destination the next day.
We wish we could have stayed longer, but Basque Country awaited us! “
Read more from Audrey.
b) From Provence to Your Plate: Discover the Simple Summer Dish That Stole My Heart 🍈🥓 by Nik Sharma of The Flavor Files
…Speaking of figs, they’re literally everywhere in Provence. Fig trees peek out from cracks in walls, line the banks of the Sorgue, and pop up in the most unexpected places. And oh, the taste! Some were like eating raspberry jam straight from the tree. Honestly, I could move to Provence just for the figs (long-time readers know I’m obsessed—I’ve got four dwarf fig trees in my LA garden).” wrote Nik.
c) Picturesque Corsica - by Eri - let’s go… just a Note, nothing further to read here.
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