Bienvenue
to Southern France
Welcome to French Country Adventures personally guided, slow travel tours for no more than 6 people. From early spring to late fall, the less traveled regions of Gascony, the Basque Country, Occitanie, and the heart of Provence, have all of the charms, but none of the crowds. Within these fabled boundaries you’ll discover the unexpected pleasures of their unique history, time-honored traditions, and local flavors.
For anyone seeking a kaleidoscope of romantic images, good food and wine, history, culture and natural beauty, I invite you to join me on thoughtfully paced itineraries into the heart of the French countryside.
On the most beautiful detours, no road is long with good company.
bienvenue à la campagne…
Tours
Classic Gascony: A Taste of the Gers
The Basque Country: A Euskadi Adventure
Edible Provence Adventure
Armagnac Adventure
Custom Adventures
New Adventures 2027
Articles
The Good Life
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...
Thanksgiving in France
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...
The French Basque Country
The French Basque Country, also known as Euskadi, is located in the western Pyrenees Mountains, straddling the border of France and Spain, where the two countries meet at the Atlantic coast’s Bay of Biscay. Emerald landscapes,...
Blog
A Tipping Point
“The secret of a full life is to live and relate to others as if they might not be there tomorrow, as if you might not be there tomorrow. It eliminates the vice of procrastination, the sin of postponement, failed communications, failed communions....
French Etiquette
Traveling in a group is NOT easy for me as a tour guide, and sometimes for my clients for various reasons which includes not being aware of French travel etiquette. Most people who sign up for my small group, slow travel tours genuinely enjoy...
A New Year’s Blessing
" ...because everything here seems to need us..." - Rainer Maria Rilke As I write this rain is falling, and I watch the almost silent transformation of the textured world into a smooth plane where differences disappear. The rain falls in droplets...
French Country Adventures
66 Chemin du Nouet Lieu dit Aux Arbeils
32800 Ayzieu
+33 633 328 961
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