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Category Archive: Provincial France

The Road To Normandy

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The first part of this summer story starts in 1981 Welcome to Normandy 1 We’re supposed to be […]

July 25, 2022 Beach, drifting, driving, France, French, Military, Provincial France, Road trip, stories, summer, Time Travel, Tourism, TRAVEL, writing

All the Fun of the Fair

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They come in their hundreds, in families, with friends, in gangs and gaggles of noisy, excited youths, in […]

June 28, 2021 Bourges, Culture, deepest france, France, French, Fun, Heritage, Holidays, photography, Provincial France, Weekend

Route 151

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The road down my way that links this place to other places is the Nationale 151. It’s not […]

April 6, 2021 Bourges, Culture, drifting, Edgelands, photography, Provincial France, Road trip, street photography, sundown, Tourism, TRAVEL, Travel writing

Wine to Water

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A crisp sunny autumn afternoon. Sunday drive weather. Winding up through the vines of Sancerre then twisting down […]

October 18, 2020 Boats, countryside, deepest france, driving, Environment, France, French, Landscapes, Motoring, photography, Provincial France, Road trip, Sailing, Sancerre, sunday, vines, Wine

Summer Pick Up / Sunny Sony

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It’s the hottest f***ing day of the whole summer. Cars are melting tires first into the melting tarmac […]

August 12, 2020 Art, Bourges, Edgelands, Fashion, France, photography, Provincial France, Small town, summer

Photos from Deepest Nowhere

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It was that time of year when my work takes me the middle of deepest nowhere. Here are […]

March 22, 2020 Café, deepest france, drifting, French Village, Ghosts, Military, photography, Provincial France, Road trip, Small town, Time Travel

Almost Stalingrad

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Far from the real epidemic world, here I am, stuck in the middle of the middle of nowhere […]

March 8, 2020 countryside, deepest france, drifting, Edgelands, France, Landscapes, Military, photography, Provincial France

Marshland Paradise

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A popular local haunt for amateur photographers -“Les Marais”. It loses something in the vulgar translation of “marshes” […]

January 26, 2020 Boats, Bourges, canals, Environment, Gardening, History, Landscapes, photography, Provincial France, Small town

Tour de France

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It is that time of year, when a line a cyclists pedal their way across France in pursuit […]

July 20, 2019 Art, Culture, deepest france, France, nostalgia, Provincial France, Road trip, Sport, Time Travel, TRAVEL

Welcome to La Creuse

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Welcome to Le Creuse in the depths of deepest France. We are in a rural “Bermuda Triangle between […]

March 17, 2019 Art, countryside, deepest france, drifting, driving, Farming, France, French Village, Landscapes, Military, photography, Provincial France, Road trip, Saturday, TRAVEL, Uncategorized

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