From our week long “home base” in Bouzigues, we continue to explore Southern France. Carcassonne It would be criminal to be in the Southwest of France and not visit the walled city of Carcassonne. Carcassonne is the second “most visited” destination…
France holds a lot of history for both of us. Ben was born in Paris and spent most of his childhood in France. We have been traveling here together for years, at least a dozen times, never tiring of it,…
14 years old, a French boy with no English, I was on the train, by myself, from Paris to Canterbury, England. My mission? To go and visit Barbara, the French/British girl I was enthralled with, who was away from Paris…
We take a short flight from Paris to Toulouse, the center of European aerospace and HQ for Airbus industries. Toulouse is on the South West corner of France, a region that neither one of us has visited before. We have…
Unexpectedly, but very fittingly, the country that brought the Western world the philosophical under-pinning of Democracy, after the ancient Greeks of course, France – became last night the country that also reminds us all that the slide toward a nativist,…
We are here for IMPACT2, which is the first conference on impact finance and impact investing in France. SOCAP in San Francisco (August 2011) yielded one of our key investors — Groupe SOS, based in Paris. Led by a charismatic…