St Junien
Only three and half hours from Paris but a world away is the tiny village of St Junien Les Combes. My dear friend Michelle welcomed me to her delightful home – nestled in part of an ancient barn on the estate of the Sannat Chateau. It was like stepping into another life, each view was a picture inside and out. I felt like I could live there forever. How to describe the french countryside?…I don’t know, each turn of the road on the rolling hills was charming, the villages, the towns, the oak tree lined roads, the hedgerows, the copper colored Limosin cattle, the gorgeous vistas, sunsets across the orangrey, starlit evenings with the sky so full of stars you could keep looking at layer after layer forever. So quiet, so peaceful, so friendly, I felt at home, almost as if I would fall alsleep and wake up speaking french.
The Traveling Kiwi 