Experiences in the South of France European Experiences offers four different trips in the beautiful South of France, four very different destinations, offering unique landscapes and discoveries. In 2006 we hosted our first trips in the Luberon, an area within the French region of Provence-Alpes
Slow Down And Float Through France. Take a fully private charter aboard The Randle — a 72-foot péniche drifting through the canals and rivers of Burgundy with your own gourmet chef, expert guide, and with no agenda but your own pleasure. The Randle Barge Cruise The Experience Your own floating
Looking for the good life in southern France, my husband and I first travelled from Seattle, Washington to Gascony in May 2006 with a couple of friends, hoping to find a house we might purchase together. All of us loved the rural French countryside. We rented a two-bedroom stone cottage in a small
Toulouse is a city in the Occitanie region of southern France. Known as ‘La Ville Rose’ or the ‘Pink City’ due to its terracotta-brick façades, Toulouse is a historic city with several UNESCO World Heritage sites, an atmospheric old town with charming streets and delightful squares, interesting
The Alpine city of Annecy is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful in France. Located in the Haute-Savoie region of south-east France, on the borders of Italy and Switzerland, this good-looking town sits at the tip of an aquamarine lake of the same name, Lake Annecy, surrounded by the
The French Republic recently awarded Greek author Christos Markogiannakis the prestigious title of Knight of Arts and Letters at a ceremony in a prominent Paris museum, celebrating Greek culture in the city’s historic halls. In his opening remarks, renowned writer, historian, and presenter Stephane
For me there’s nothing that spells fall quite like the blanket of emerald green, and gold that color the countryside in dappled light. This morning as I looked out at the autumn landscape, I reflected back on my first Thanksgiving in France many years ago. With his wild, white hair suitably
