The Good Life

The Good Life

Looking for the good life in southern France, my husband and I first travelled from Seattle, Washington to Gascony in May 2006 with a couple of friends, hoping to find a house we might purchase together. All of us loved the rural French countryside. We rented a...
Thanksgiving in France

Thanksgiving in France

For me there’s nothing that spells fall quite like the blanket of emerald green, and gold that color the countryside in dappled light. This morning as I looked out at the autumn landscape, I reflected back on my first Thanksgiving in France many years ago. With his...
The French Basque Country

The French Basque Country

The French Basque Country, also known as Euskadi, is located in the western Pyrenees Mountains, straddling the border of France and Spain, where the two countries meet at the Atlantic coast’s Bay of Biscay. Emerald landscapes, distinctively rugged mountains,...
The Art of Food

The Art of Food

The art of food is a much forgotten piece of cooking than plating a meal because we eat first with our eyes. For the past 11 years, I have guided tours through Provence. One of my tours, Edible Provence, offers two (2) cooking classes. Last year, I was very...
Provençal Pottery in Caromb

Provençal Pottery in Caromb

Provencal Pottery in Caromb a Village in the Vaucluse Provençal pottery in Caromb, a village in the Vaucluse is a place you pass through on your way to somewhere else. Caromb has a quiet mystique, and like many Provençal villages, it is bathed in the dappled light of...