This week I am feeling a little more French! Drinking more coffee, black but still with a little sugar, as most people drink plain espresso here and I am also on a croissant kick. I am taking a break from the usual dietitian’s breakfast consisting of a high fiber cereal with soy milk, a fruit [...]
Last week I went into « Le Var » which is a region of Provence with 190 miles of shore land on the Mediterranean Sea. The most famous town of this region has to be St-Tropez, where French stars have a summer homes and Brigitte Bardot was probably one of the best known international star to bring [...]
I am so sorry; I have been so busy going places that I have not taken the time to write about it. But please, stay tuned as have been to beautiful places and want to share these experiences, stories and pictures with you. It has been a wonderful week indeed.
Peace and Love
Josée
I really love living in the South of France, I love being able to stare at the Mediterranean all day long when sitting at my computer. It makes me feel as if I am outside and don’t feel as guilty to be sitting here. I am sure this will be even more important comes fall [...]
Yesterday, I showed you how beautiful and interesting it was to harvest wild lavender in Daluis, near Guillaumes in Haute-Provence. Here a little clip I took at the mountain.
Now I would like to tell you a bit about the distillation process, since it’s the reason I went up there in the first place. It actually [...]
So there it is; last week-end wild lavender harvest in the mountains north of Nice in Val d’Entraunes (Haute-Vallée du Var) more specifically “Les Gorges de Daluis” next to Guillaumes. It was 100 km (60 miles) away from my house, but because it is a narrow zig zag road, it took a little bit more [...]