- Time of past OR future Camino
- May 2023: Via Francigena, Lucca to Rome
This article from the New York Times popped up in my news feed this weekend: Is Gascony the Most Delicious Corner of France?
From the article: Look closely at a map of southwestern France and you’ll notice it: a blank spot just west of Toulouse where the place names thin out and the train lines and expressways veer away, like a stream flowing around a boulder. That blank spot is Gascony, one of the most rural regions in all of France ...
Gascony is not merely distinct from Provence and the Côte d’Azur. It is, in my estimation, better. Gascony is more open, more soulful, more deeply French, and, in its un-self-conscious devotion to tradition, more pleasurably frozen in time. Its cuisine is arguably less sophisticated than Provence’s, and yet it is more firmly rooted in the land it sprang from, and it is, I put to you, enjoyed with lustier abandon.
A lot of towns on the Camino get a mention: Lectoure, Larressingle, La Romieu, Montréal du Gers, Nogaro, Éauze, and Aire-sur-l’Adour were the ones I recognized.
And if the article captures the way we'll eat on the Chemin du Puy then I might end up just rolling myself up and over the Pyrenees into Spain ...
From the article: Look closely at a map of southwestern France and you’ll notice it: a blank spot just west of Toulouse where the place names thin out and the train lines and expressways veer away, like a stream flowing around a boulder. That blank spot is Gascony, one of the most rural regions in all of France ...
Gascony is not merely distinct from Provence and the Côte d’Azur. It is, in my estimation, better. Gascony is more open, more soulful, more deeply French, and, in its un-self-conscious devotion to tradition, more pleasurably frozen in time. Its cuisine is arguably less sophisticated than Provence’s, and yet it is more firmly rooted in the land it sprang from, and it is, I put to you, enjoyed with lustier abandon.
A lot of towns on the Camino get a mention: Lectoure, Larressingle, La Romieu, Montréal du Gers, Nogaro, Éauze, and Aire-sur-l’Adour were the ones I recognized.
And if the article captures the way we'll eat on the Chemin du Puy then I might end up just rolling myself up and over the Pyrenees into Spain ...