Pure Provence flair: a cottage garden with a stone house, lavender and fragrant herbs, discovered in the Drôme provençale. The gorse glows yellow next to the purple of the lavender fields. The leaves of the olive groves glisten silver-green. Karst slopes and rocky villages duck under the blue firmament.
The untamed Drôme flows turquoise blue through the region between the Rhône valley, the foothills of the Alps and Provence. The Département Drôme shows with a firework of colours: this is where the south of France begins. As early as the 17th century, France's most famous letter writer raved about this region: the Marquise de Sévigné. After her beloved daughter Françoise d'Adhémar married the Comte de Grignan in 1669 and disappeared with him to distant Provence in 1671, the highly educated Madame not only wrote 750 letters to the south, but also spent several months in the summer with her daughter at the castle of Grignan.
To this day, it rises majestically from a huge field of lavender. And I found this idyll in one of the gardens at its feet.
Hello and welcome! Here are the best photos I've ever taken: Hilke - a true Hamburg girl with a lot of France in her heart. I trained as an editor and, after two decades with various publishing houses, I've been working as a freelance journalist for print, .. Read more…