Category: Travel

On the Verge | Uzes, the Hidden Gem of the South of France

“Oh little town of Uzès!” the French novelist André Gide wrote affectionately of his father’s hometown in the South of France in his 1924 memoir, “Unless the Seed Dies.” “If you were in Umbria, Parisians would be visiting you in herds!” Gide, who was born into a middle-class Protestant family and scandalized France with a blunt but elegant defense of his homosexuality in “Corydon,” also published in 1924, was a wry and astute observer of Parisian snobberies. So he’d surely be amused to learn that today a taste-making coterie of Parisians is falling in love with Uzès and settling there, despite the fact that it’s not in Umbria.

Source: On the Verge | Uzes, the Hidden Gem of the South of France

When Art meets Food: Top Restaurants in Paris to Visit While Enjoying FIAC : Travel Tips : TravelersToday

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for all of Paris is a moveable feast.” Ernest Hemingway

Source: When Art meets Food: Top Restaurants in Paris to Visit While Enjoying FIAC : Travel Tips : TravelersToday

Andy Steves Reinvents Dad’s Travel Guide And Tours For Millennial Generation

As the founder and “Head Backpacker” of his company, Weekend Student Adventures, and the author of travel book, “Andy Steves’ Europe,” Andy Steves is teaching millennials (who list traveling as a main reason they work) how to be savvy travelers.

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Pierre Jamet: Four Pair of Legs

Four Pair of Legs
Pierre Jamet, four pairs of legs , Colony Belle Île, Sauzon 1936.

By Michael Stevenson

The photographs that occupy the header of my Pas De Merde blog are each the work of Pierre Jamet. Jamet (1910-2000) was a singer (the tenor voice in Les Quatre Barbus), active outdoorsman, and above all – the gifted photographer who so brilliantly captured young French people enjoying their country’s hillsides, lakes, and seashore during the 1930s.
I especially love the above photo, “Four Pair of Legs.” It beautifully captures the feeling of being on vacation – the clashing sensations of both relaxation and exhilaration that nourish our summer souls. Are the children’s legs dangling from the bridge as they take a rest after their hike? Or are they preparing to jump into the cool, refreshing waters of a stream below? I like to imagine that the children drop from the bridge into the railroad car of a passing train, carrying goose feathers – destination unknown [ . . . ]

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