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Gordes is a soul touchpoint Says Author Elizabeth Birkelund…

I WONDER IF Louis XI KNEW WHAT HE HAD GAINED IN 1486 When Provence, a semi-indandent state dominated by the countens of Provence, was legally integrated into France. He should have Known that the rhone river was a freeway of commerce and communication, that the Area Bordered the Maritime Alps and Included Mont Ventoux, the Giant of Provence, and That That To The Mediterranean Climate, the Area Had the Potential of Producing the Most Fruit and Vegetables in all of France. Perhaps He Had Already Tasted Provence’s Dessert Grapes, Figs, Almonds, Oranges and Lemons.

If Louis XI Didn’t Appreciate The Bounty and Beauty of Provence, I certain of! I Fell in love with France when i used to be 8 years outdated. But I Fell Head Over Heels in Love With Provence Only Nine Years Ago, once I Stayed with a buddy in a home within the Hilltop Village of Gordes. That First Morning, When I Walked to the Center of the Village, Heard the Church Bells Chiming, Saw People Under Underllas Chatting Over Morning Café, Smald Bagntes Baking from the Nearby Boulangerie, and Took within the view of vineyards within the valley, one thing About this place Connected with one thing deep inside me. It was a soul touchpoint.

Sincere 2015, i’ve go to many villages in Provence extensively, however i preserve returning to the perched village of gordes. My Favorite Spot within the village is the postage-stamp Sized Balcony of the Café Tabac, Le Cercle Republican. Becuse we author likes to Relive Our Lives Through Characters, that’s the rental the place my character, ilse erlund in A Northern Light in ProvenceIn Greenlander, Spent Her First Hours in Provence. When i am in gordes During the Summer MONTHS (usually it is best to keep away from visiting right now of yr), I attempt to arrive earlier than the remainder of the world to one of many eight tables overlooking the view, to soak up the sky, the misy wasnder/blue coloured luberon and the Lime Green Vineyards Below. In the late afternoon, there is no such thing as a higher method to say Goodbye To the day however to take a seat on the identical balcony with anise Flavored Ricard in Hand, and to Gaze on the Unfolding Shifting Orange Rose Colored Kaleidoscope of shade.

There, as Ilse Erlund does in my novel, i meet my mates to debate the cares and delights of the day. And not like fetching a Morning Coffee in NYC, the place I Will WIT IN LINE, Offer A Shortned Version of My Name (It’s Fast), reply to texts While I Wait, then about Face to Work, within the Perched Village of Gordes, There isn’t any such Thing as “to go” Coffee (at the least with the residents). A “Coffee to go” is the antithesis of the idea of Provence.

Provence TELLS You to Stop, To Smell the Coffee (and the Lavender), Savor the Croissant, Touch the Plump Fig Hanging from the fig tree, discover the colours within the gentle within the distant views. They say the Unusual Light is Thanks to the Strong Wind, the Mistral, that strips the mud from the environment. No Wonder Cezanne, Van Gogh, Renoir, Matisse, Picasso, and More Drew Inspiration from this Setting.

After the Adrenaline-RUSED Days in New York City, I Feel the Need (Not that I can Always fulfill it) for a yearly go to to Provence to Remind Me to Touch, Listen, Smell, Taste and see the World AFRESH —And to attach with the deecper a part of me that that Knows…. To quote from CP Cavafy, that “Arriving There is what I’m destined for.”

Elizabeth Birkelund is the Author of a Northern Light in Provence: (Ballantine Hardcover, ISBN 97805937222213): A Woman Leaves Her Coastal Greenland Village To Translate the Works of A Renowned Provençal Poet and Finds Her Life Irrevocably Change, novel set in a French village.

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An inspirational French village – Gordes Provence