Our second medieval village of the day could not have been more different. If Sévérac felt organic and quietly lived in, Cordes-sur-Ciel was its theatrical opposite. From a distance, it looked magical – a town suspended above the landscape, poised between earth and sky on a rocky ridge 328 ft (100 m) above the CérouContinue reading “In Glorious Bastides: Cordes-sur-Ciel”
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Lovely Languedoc, France: Sévérac-le-Château
In Southern France, history is not confined to individual locations, museums, or monuments; it is embedded throughout the landscape. During the medieval period, Sévérac-le-Château or Sévérac d’Aveyron sat on a geographic, religious, and political fault line. On the edge of a region with a fiercely singular identity, it was caught between the Mediterranean world ofContinue reading “Lovely Languedoc, France: Sévérac-le-Château”
The Table Read Magazine Interviews Adventure Travel Author Jacqueline Lambert
I was thrilled to be interviewed about travel writing and my latest travel memoir, More Manchester Than Mongolia by The Table Read Magazine – the UK’s best Arts & Entertainment Magazine. In this chat you will discover the ‘Why?’ behind More Manchester Than Mongolia, the challenges I faced while writing it, and what’s coming up.Continue reading “The Table Read Magazine Interviews Adventure Travel Author Jacqueline Lambert”
Languedoc, France: The Land That Says Yes! With Wind, Wine, & Rebellion
Wrapped around the Mediterranean coast, from Provence to the Pyrenees, lies the French region of Languedoc. Translated literally, the Languedoc – le langue d’oc – means ‘the language of yes’. In the southern French Occitan language, Oc was the word for ‘yes’, distinguishing it from the northern old French affirmative oil – prounounced ‘oh-ee’ –Continue reading “Languedoc, France: The Land That Says Yes! With Wind, Wine, & Rebellion”
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