Last summer, my family and I made a 4-night excursion to The Marais Poitevin, La Rochelle & Île de Ré as a detour on the way from Paris out to Brittany. Top: the Marais Poitevin; bottom left: Brouage; bottom right: La Rochelle Combining the Marais Poitevin, La...
This past weekend I enjoyed a wonderful escape from Paris, to the charming small city of Pau in the Béarn (just east of the Basque Country), the surrounding vineyard-covered hills of the Jurançon and the mountains of the Pyrenées. Four of us stayed with a friend’s...
