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Tag: nature

  • The Geology Around Sète – Sea, Limestone and Lagoons

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    Dennis Franklin
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    Sète sits on one of the most distinctive stretches of the French Mediterranean coast – a place where hard limestone hills meet shifting sand barriers, salt lagoons and the open sea. For somebody with a geology background, it is a fascinating landscape because almost every part of it tells a different story about changing sea…

  • Nîmes

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    Dennis Franklin
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    Nîmes feels like a city designed by people who understood heat long before air conditioning. We arrived and walked first through broad boulevards lined with deep green plane trees, where water sits low in the paving and the hard Mediterranean light is softened by shade rather than hidden from it. Everything here seems designed around…

  • Bonnieux

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    Dennis Franklin
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    Today felt like a study in sculptural thinking – first in landscape, then in wood. In Bonnieux we visited La Louve, the extraordinary garden created by Nicole de Vésian. What strikes you immediately is restraint. Nothing shouts. The garden is clipped, pared back, disciplined – yet somehow deeply emotional. Rounded shrubs echo the hills of…