November 3, 2016

Situated in Cerdanya: On Top Of The World

The world waited, for what seemed like an eternity. And finally good Fortune delivered. The curse was lifted. The seraphim in heaven broke out their harps […]
October 20, 2016

Relocation Station: International Awareness in the French Pyrenees

Perched high on a southwest facing slope in the French Pyrenees, overlooking the hamlet of Osseja and the valley of Cerdanya, our journey has reached a […]
October 15, 2016

Eyes on the Pyrenees: Great elevations and high expectations

This month we satisfied our wildest fantasies about life on the organic farm. Our crunchy whole food idealism was realized as we herded free-range cattle, gathered […]
October 7, 2016

Franco Prudence: Stuff That Grandpa Says

When we arrived at the Good Valley Farm in Montaigu last month, we were told to go directly to the potato field, where we waited to […]
October 1, 2016

The Legend of Cahors

Across the south of France, the river Lot forms a natural boundary running east-west for 300 miles and eventually connecting with other rivers to form a […]
September 29, 2016

Organic Adventures: Fall Harvest Is In The Air

The seasons are changing once again. And in this part of the world, that actually means something. Having spent more than 90 percent of my life […]
September 23, 2016

The French Connection: Escape from Cantal

When I left off last time, we were being kindly escorted out of the Cantal chateau, with no hard feelings. As we later learned from our […]
September 15, 2016

C’est la vie: Goes to show you never Cantal

It was a September 11th that we will never forget. We had just finished a leisurely stroll across some cattle grazing countryside of the Auvergne, just […]
September 9, 2016

All Roads Lead to France: Chateau du Luc

The attached image displays a reasonably accurate map of our route from Styria (Austria’s southeast wine region) to Cantal (France’s south central cattle grazing and cheese […]