We spent a week traveling from the south of France and the Cote d’Azur in the l’Aquittane region up to mid-west of France to the Correze region in June for a friend’s wedding and enjoyed some very picturesque driving routes and towns along the way. We took the road from Fejus north, following the Rhone river until just below the town of Orange where we turned west, stopping in at […]
We spent 5 days mid-June in Sainte-Maxime, a delightful, slightly more low-key resort town than St Tropez and its cousin, on the Cote d’Azur. We travelled 90 minutes from the busy port town (with the most chaotic traffic we have ever seen) of Toulon to Sainte-Maxime in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur department in the l’Aquittane region. We stayed in the nifty little Hotel Le Revest (super friendly owners and a little […]
Perpignan is a French town that used to be Spanish! And you can definitely feel the Catalan /Spanish influence in the food, the language, the architecture and the historical monuments around town. Perpignan wasn’t just Spanish however, It started out as the capital of the Kings of Mallorca – and the palace they built (Le Palais des Rois de Majorque) is still standing and in good nick today. The region […]