10 Beautiful Vaucluse Villages

10 Beautiful Vaucluse Villages

The Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region is a magical triangle of land in southeastern France composed of 6 departments: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Alpes-Maritime, Bouches-du-Rhône, Hautes-Alpes, Var, and the Vaucluse. French departments were created in 1790 to give each...
A Tipping Point

A Tipping Point

“The secret of a full life is to live and relate to others as if they might not be there tomorrow, as if you might not be there tomorrow. It eliminates the vice of procrastination, the sin of postponement, failed communications, failed communions. This thought has...
French Etiquette

French Etiquette

Traveling in a group is NOT easy for me as a tour guide, and sometimes for my clients for various reasons which includes not being aware of French travel etiquette. Most people who sign up for my small group, slow travel tours genuinely enjoy spending time with new...
Consider the French…

Consider the French…

“In 2009, The New Yorker’s Elizabeth Kolbert surveyed notable books about meat consumption and pointed out the paradox. ‘Americans love animals,’ she wrote, but they also love eating them, spending tens of billions of dollars annually on household...
12 Gascony Gems

12 Gascony Gems

Moissac A mecca of Romanesque art in France, this UNESCO World Heritage site also has one of the largest concentrations of Art Deco style buildings in southwest France. Admire the spectacular 19th-century Cacor canal bridge, a true work of art....