On the Road in France

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From the Clocher de L’eglise Monolithe, Saint Emilion, France

I’ve been traveling for the past week and a half through different wine regions in France, along with my partner Mick and our friends Susan and Ned. We spent one night in Paris, three nights in Epernay, three nights in Tours, and are wrapping things up with four nights in Saint Emilion. We’ve tasted lots of different wines, walked and walked and walked on unfamiliar streets, toured vineyards by e-bike, and eaten an unholy amount of cheese and bread. We had the best cassoulet of our lives a few nights ago, with local ingredients we will not be able to replicate even though we talked the restaurateur into sharing his recipe. And today, our B&B host gifted us two bottles of wine because Mick and our friend Susan both had birthdays within the past week.

Life has been very, very good. I’ll leave you with a few photos, just a taste of France until I’m back at a laptop with more ease for writing.

Sacre Coeur at night
Special sabers for champagne bottles at a shop in Epernay.
Our AirBnB in Tours.
Meat case at the big food market in Tours.
Lunch stop with our e-bike tour guide in Saint Emilion.
Art show we stumbled into in Saint Emilion.

The best photos are still on my Nikon’s SD card, so more in the future! In the meantime, I have more wine to drink.

All photos by kcmickelson, 2023.

Published by Kathleen Cassen Mickelson

Kathleen Cassen Mickelson is a Minnesota-based writer who has published work in journals in the US, UK, and Canada. She is the author of the poetry chapbook How We Learned to Shut Our Own Mouths (Gyroscope Press, 2021) and co-author of the poetry collection Prayer Gardening (Kelsay Books, 2023).

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  2. Oh, this brought back memories of our trip to Paris and St. Emilion right before the pandemic! So happy for you for what looks like a wonderful experience.

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