Southern France
15°C average, 8 to 21 · partly cloudy · 68% humidity
I don't know why, but every time I come back to France, I feel like I'm coming home. I can't really explain. I still feel very much like a foreigner, and many things still surprise me, but somehow things seems at the same time familiar and different.
This trip was extra special because I got to see old friends in Bordeaux. A friend who now lives in the city, and another a couple that travelled all the way from Paris.
I tried plenty of Canelés, and took a day trip to St-Émilion for vineyards and the original macarons. From there I wandered through Montpellier's lively streets and explored Nîmes with its incredible Roman architecture.
Then came the chaos: we boarded the wrong train to Paris instead of Toulouse. Pretty stressful in the moment, but we had to roll with it. Hopped off in Nîmes to find a place to sleep, then caught an early train the next morning that got delayed three hours due to an accident. Still managed a quick stop at my favorite crepe place in Toulouse before the flight. Sometimes you just have to embrace the unexpected.
Nîmes’ Roman arena still hosts concerts and festivals nearly two thousand years later.
