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• BRETAGNE - Notes & Photos 4 years ago Bretagne is possibly the most underrated corner of France, at least among the far-abroad travelers. While you’ll find many an American book, blog and podcast singing paeans to the glories of Dordogne, Collioure, the Loire Valley, Alsace, Normandy, the French Alps and Provence, Bretagne evades...
• ALSACE - Notes & Photos 4 years ago Alsace just might be the most visually Disney-like place I have ever been to. Every town and village is candy-colored. Every half-timbered storefront beckons like the Witch’s house in ‘Hansel and Gretel’, with their candies and pretzels and storytelling signs. Roses and wisterias snake up...
• BEAUNE, BURGUNDY - Notes & Photos 4 years ago Beaune is all about wine. Every other shop is a wine store. The bars are predominantly wine bars. At a restaurant, the waiters will proudly spend 15 minutes telling you the particulars of the terroir whence your wine came, down to the history of the family that owns that particular vineyard.  If...
• PROVENCE and CÔTE D'AZUR - Notes & Photos 4 years ago It was in Provence that I actually liked France for the very first time. It was October 2003, and I had finally escaped the misery of Paris for a long weekend with my girlfriends.  I still remember catching that first glimpse of the Mediterranean Sea from the road — its sparkling waters...
• TO GUIDE OR NOT TO GUIDE? What You Get (& Don't Get) with Organized Travel Experiences 4 years ago Food tours, street art tours, cooking classes, architecture tours, pottery making, ghost tours, yoga with a view, literary tours, ruins pub crawls, photo tours, sketching classes, fashion tours. There is a smorgasbord of thematic experiences on offer in every corner of the world. Websites like...

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