portrait of provence: part two

“I am now in the land of wine, oil and sunshine.  What more can one ask of heaven?” Thomas Jefferson – Provence, 1787 Terrasse, Café le Soir, Arles Door, Vaison la Romaine Notre Dame des Anges, L’Isle sur la Sorgue 7,000 Petunias,  Vieux Chemin...

portrait of provence: part one

“Is there anything, apart from a really good chocolate cream pie and receiving a large unexpected cheque in the post, to beat finding yourself at large in a foreign city on a fair evening, loafing along unfamiliar streets in the long shadows of a lazy sunset, pausing...

the key to the castle

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t. Bill Nye Last Sunday afternoon my companion and I decided to succumb to wanderlust and drive through the SW French countryside. July is a spectacular month for traveling throughout the départment of the Gers...

letting go in France

“One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.” Edith Wharton Recently some American friends, Bob and Kathy, went on a walking tour of the prehistoric Dordogne region, not far from the caves of Lascaux...

roadmaps

  Sometimes from sorrow, for no reason, you sing. For no reason, you accept the way of being lost, cutting loose from all else and electing a world where you go where you want to. Arbitrary, a sound comes, a reminder that a steady center is holding all else. If...