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Le Var

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Le Var is in the south-eastern tip of France. Filled with good produce which in turn makes for great food and wine. Incredible Mediterranean climate helps as well. 😉

: Wine Country

: Best peach/nectarine I ever had was in Southern France

: Carrots

: Beans

: Olives

: What’s France without baguettes?

: what’s France without cheese?

: love ’em sausages

: roast chickens!

: Skinning fish

: Cat

: Hats

: Vineyards are everywhere in this area

: Le Monastère Chartreuse

: inside Le Monastère Chartreuse

: The small town of Collobrières

: Streets of Collobrières

: Vive la France!

: Trees of Collobrières

: palm trees in Bormes-les-Mimosas

: Mickey Mouse Cactus

: Remains of a castle in Grimaud

: old school cashier

: Tarte Tropizienne in St. Tropez

: love the yellow pants, curb, building and store signage in this one

: paintings for sale

: a future pro photographer?

: Balloons portrait in St. Tropez

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Corsica

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The island of Corsica is just south west of the mainland of France. We only stayed on the island for 5 days but wished we had planned for a longer stay. Now we know. Mountainous and surrounded by the Mediterranean sea, the island is a gorgeous place with scenic views on pretty much every turn.

: Hello Corsica! Docking into Bastia

: One of the only days it was cloudy. Came by this abandoned house on a mountain

: an ok view (in town of Calvi) I guess…

: Tourists taking a picture of a church

: I decided that the chair in the church was more interesting

: aqua door

: Sail boat

: crazy winding roads on cliff side “highways”

: Tower in the city of Porto

: Donkey!

: Grapes

: Cheese! in the Ajaccio market

: sausages

: More sausages

: wine

: one day I will own one of these

: olives and lemons. Not sure i could eat a lemon like the locals do.

: onion man

: mickey?

: This was a sunrise view from our hotel room in Sartène.

: The same view at sunset. Best. Hotel. View. Ever.

: Cute town of Sartène.

: Bulangerie Tamburini

: Crooked door

: The gorgeous city of Bonifacio, perched on top of a cliff

: crazy cliffs

: lotsa steps. luckily for me, we didn’t climb any of them

: view of Bonifacio from a boat

: another view of Bonifacio from a boat.

: yet another view

: sick killer stealth like kazillion dollar yacht

: motobike

: you put wine in these

: slush! or granité as the francais like to call it

: dinner. so french of us.

: City of Corte

: Winding wall overlooking mountains

: yet another awesome view from another B&B we stayed at near Corte

: Mooooo!

: This one really moo-ed at me

: sniffing dog

: one of the very few modern buildings I saw in Corsica

: The town of Speloncato. A real bitch to get to… actually most little towns in Corsica are a bitch to get to.

: this cow just stood there on the side of the road/cliff the whole time we stopped to take photos of the panorama views

: town of Speloncato

: lights

: old Citroen

: picture time

: waves…

: …that almost ate me!

: sunrise on on the morning of our ferry back to the mainland in France

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