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On our multilingual internet site you will find descriptions of excursions, visits cultural or sports events, reports about creative, social and associative, initiatives, learning and training opportunities, special skills, interesting people and places, you will take a share in others' ideas and impressions in relationship with their Médoc experience.
The rich Médoc
Why “the riches of the Médoc”? Historians, especially those in Bordeaux, believe the Médoc is a land of savages living in an unspeakable
country, full of pestilential marshes, inhabited by half-savages, even complete savages, shipwreckers, hideous beings, in short ….. there
is nothing to excite their curiosity...
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Why “the riches of the Médoc”? Historians, especially those in Bordeaux, believe the Médoc is a land of savages living in an unspeakable
country, full of pestilential marshes, inhabited by half-savages, even complete savages, shipwreckers, hideous beings, in short ….. there
is nothing to excite their curiosity...
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Frontstalag 221
Yesterday I was walking my dog in a part of the village that I had never been to before. And there …. I noticed, 50 metres away, and near to
a roundabout that I frequently pass in the car, a stele that I had never noticed. Of course I went to have a look at it and I learnt something
of which I was completely unaware: there were prisoner of war camps in France in WWII. They were called “Frontstalag”...
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Yesterday I was walking my dog in a part of the village that I had never been to before. And there …. I noticed, 50 metres away, and near to
a roundabout that I frequently pass in the car, a stele that I had never noticed. Of course I went to have a look at it and I learnt something
of which I was completely unaware: there were prisoner of war camps in France in WWII. They were called “Frontstalag”...
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Edible wild plants in Médoc gardens
On the 31st July, within the framework of La table européenne, Médoc-Actif and La maison d'Artemis invited Laurence Dessimoulie. After a
brief outline art of her way of cooking and her approach to the flora of the Médoc, Laurence invited each one of us to discover the wild
plants in our own gardens: their gustative, nutritional and sometimes even curative values...
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On the 31st July, within the framework of La table européenne, Médoc-Actif and La maison d'Artemis invited Laurence Dessimoulie. After a
brief outline art of her way of cooking and her approach to the flora of the Médoc, Laurence invited each one of us to discover the wild
plants in our own gardens: their gustative, nutritional and sometimes even curative values...
read more
Old Soulac and the sand-free bunker, accompanied by quiches and salads
Despite the threat of a storm (the event was planned for the open air), more than 40 interested Europeans, mainly French and German, came together
in the hope of being enraptured by 83 year old Jean-Paul Lescorce. And it worked...
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Despite the threat of a storm (the event was planned for the open air), more than 40 interested Europeans, mainly French and German, came together
in the hope of being enraptured by 83 year old Jean-Paul Lescorce. And it worked...
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Shopping in Bergerac
Through a friend, we heard about "More than soap", a small craft company that produces dream soaps sold by mail, but also in a small shop in the old
town of Bergerac. Nia, an aromatherapist from Wales, makes the soaps, and her husband Karim advises customers in front of house. Entering the shop is
a truly wonderful sensory experience: the fragrances are extraordinary and the products present a real treat for the eyes...
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Through a friend, we heard about "More than soap", a small craft company that produces dream soaps sold by mail, but also in a small shop in the old
town of Bergerac. Nia, an aromatherapist from Wales, makes the soaps, and her husband Karim advises customers in front of house. Entering the shop is
a truly wonderful sensory experience: the fragrances are extraordinary and the products present a real treat for the eyes...
read more