It was a sunny, August day as we wound brightly along the hilly, narrow two-lane roads lined with verdant, pastured farm land.  The southwest of France is a shiny, picturesque dream of idyllic charm.  One painted repetitiously with plots of corn and patches of sunflower fields.  On this warm day, windows down, and blown by the steady cool wind, we buzzed past the endless fields, and I could feel the comforting presence of simplistic lifestyle where people existed closely together with the land.  Continue reading South West France ~La Vie en Vert