With sing-song accents and Occitan traditions, the Midi-Pyrénées - the southern region of France - are synonymous with culture and recreation. Rich with important historical heritage, this region invites you to discover the castles, vineyards and preserved villages. It is a relaxing, yet exotic, living environment.
Every year in Menton, France there is a festival to celebrate le citron! - 'The Lemon Festival'. It also spotlights limes and oranges but this grand, over two-week-long affair, showcases the lemon. Come one, come all, let’s celebrate all things citron!
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The last French city to avoid the snow, Toulouse resists but finally allows itself to be overcome. A few hours of magic, nothing lasts. The weather freezes, the images remain, but the snow is already disappearing.
Crisscrossing France and much of Europe are public hiking or randonée trails, an inexpensive leisure activity that is reasonably accessible to most of the population.
Socca is unpretentious cooking so, unsurprising, two of the best places to try socca are in the daily market in Vieux Nice (old Nice) on the Cours Saleya and in the Port.
I found my preconceived ideas of St Tropez as an exclusive playground for the rich and famous were wrong. I discovered there was a lot more to this place than what you read in the glossy magazines.
Very little on the Côte d’Azur is undiscovered. The deep-water harbour is ideal for cruise ships and day-trippers are off-loaded en masse during the peak summer season. It gets busy. Nonetheless, Villefranche somehow manages to guard its small fishing village atmosphere.
After spending the school year cooped up in the north of France through the harsh winter, I am really happy to say that the sun, sand, and surf of Biarritz is my reality this summer.
If you are passing through the Toulouse region on Easter Monday, I invite you to make a detour to the small village of Bessières. Arriving there, you will quickly notice there are chefs, dressed in white caps and yellow ties, and surrounded by assistants. What are they doing? They're preparing a giant omelette.
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