Tagged: Rhone

Lavender season in France

I’m recently back from France where I spent time in the Rhone Alps region around Lyon. There July’s blooming lavender was covering the landscapes sometimes next to huge fields of blooming sunflowers who turned their...

Making soap in Marseille

Make your own soap at this tiny shop near the Old Port of Marseille, where soapmaking has been a tradition for hundreds of years. The mistral, which roars across the south of...

Montpellier toward the Rhone

Today we headed east from Montpellier toward the Rhone and a small appelation on the west side of that River called  Costières de Nîmes where Anne and Francois Collard make whites, roses...