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 […]
Corsica is known as the ‘Island of Beauty’ and I’d add an adjective in there – the ‘Island of terrifying Beauty’ due to the crazy roads carved high but not deep in the jagged mountain tops, which are the only means to access the beauty of the island (the seaside and mountain villages, beaches and hiking trails). There is a little train that runs between some of the major towns […]