Early fall means it's time to harvest wine grapes or as it's called here:"la vendange". Yes, it involves picking grapes but it is far...

Like many European towns, large and small, St. Hippolyte du Fort grew up around a river. While we tend to take water for granted, coming...

What's behind that door? Not that I'm overly interested in today's occupants–that feels too nosy, invasive. What intrigues me is who...

For a town of our size, we have had more than our fair share of dramatic events. The population has hovered around 4000 for centuries,...

La vie est belle, n'est-ce pas? Life is beautiful, isn't it? Nowhere is the above sentence more true than at our weekly open market,...

Every day I marvel at the beauty that surrounds me. Yes, I live in the south of France, and yes, it's breathtakingly gorgeous here....