Provence Travel

Shabby-chic bohemian home from home Les Sardines

2008-05-25T06:20:00.000-07:00

Les Sardines aux Yeux Bleus
Languedoc-roussillon, France [view map]
Style
Shabby-chic bohemian home from home
Setting
Provençal stone hamlet
Transformed from crumbling old French house to enchanting, bohemian chambre d’hôte, Les Sardines aux Yeux Bleus is a heart-stoppingly serene boutique gem within a traditional Provençal stone hamlet.

Todays picture from Les Sardines

2008-05-22T06:11:00.000-07:00

A small collection from Pope Palace

Flying over pont Du Gard

2008-05-21T13:33:00.000-07:00

With takeof in Nimes we enjoy the great view and niiice ride
in a airplane.

Le Tracteur Restaurant

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We continue 360 degrees of cusine. Le Tracteur near uzes
was fabiolus and we enjoyed the food with our good friends.
The food melted with a nice bottle of Chateauneuf du Pape -
Clos Du Mont Olivier 2001

360° OF CARS TODAY IN PROVENCE

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Still got great picture for french food and cars :-)

2CV trip to Avignon

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360° OF CUISINE

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One step higher in taste

In a place with so much diversity, there are as many food traditions as areas. The palette of flavours grows a little wider every step of the way, from local home-grown products to traditional recipes and dishes by renowned creative chefs.

The products of Languedoc-Roussillon come from an area stretching from the coast to the mountains. At the seaside, shellfish platters heaped with oysters, mussels and clams delight the tastebuds. So do the countless Mediterranean fish sought-after for their flavour, including tuna, bream and sea bass.
Orchards and gardens grow gorgeous fruits, vegetables and herbs all along the plain. The olive, the culinary queen here, finds good company in basil, thyme, rosemary, bay leaf and sorrel.
Higher up, where the vegetation is sparser, you enter the tempting land of chestnuts, wild mushrooms and Lozère cheeses.

Delicious combinations

The region’s fresh products have given rise to countless recipes with names that tantalise our palates: aligot and tripoux from Lozère, cassoulet from Castelnaudary, gardiane de taureau from Camargue, brandade from Nîmes, rouille and tielle from Sète, Catalan cream, brasucade, cargolade, bullinade and pâtés from Pézenas, tapenades and more. Discover them at markets, speciality shops and restaurants with the "Restaurateurs de France" label, which do an outstanding job of preparing local home-grown products to their best advantage.

From vine to wine

Vines are everywhere in Languedoc-Roussillon, where growing wine grapes is a passion and a tradition. Vineyards are inseparable from history in this region.
Each village, or almost, has a cooperative wine cellar. Between year-round sunshine,soil with unique characteristics, and winds that keep the vines healthy, Languedoc-Roussillon is a promised land for wine.
Over the past several decades, emphasis on quality has raised Languedoc-Roussillon to the rank of the world’s greatest winemaking regions, capable of competing with the most distinguished vineyards.
Today, over 30 A.O.C. labels make up a palette of white, red, rosé and sparkling wines with rich bouquets and complex flavours, not to mention the muscatels and sweet natural wines that belong to the great regional tradition. And the vins de pays have come into their own by giving each variety a new dimension.

Flower Market in Gattigues Uzes

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Landscape foto Les Sardines

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Les-Sardines.com

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Provence foto today

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Provence is enticing. The scenery is gentle, the people are rural and speak with wonderfully strong accents. The food is some of the best in France and altogether, it’s refreshingly Gallic without the sometimes pretentious attitude of more northerly neighbours.

The other thing is that no matter where you go, you’ll find ancient Roman, medieval and Renaissance structures. The whole of Provence is an on-going, dynamic history lesson. And the flowers… in typically Gallic fashion, they colour everything, hanging from baskets, boxes, windowsills, along the edges of busy roads, decorating trees.