I am on a #TourdeFrance this holiday season. The road trip through the Alps. Paris. Normandy. Now Biarritz. Next stop Toulon in Provence and back to Mont Blanc for a final farewell in a chalet to end to my winter vacation before driving home to Venice. Beaches and Mountains. And all the while #FrenchFood and Friends.

As I tour the French countryside visiting people I love I tour through taste. Oysters nearly every day. Goose Liver so many times I dread seeing my trainer at the gym on the 9th when I return back to la vie normal. Champagne. Red wine. White. We can all agree in advance I need to detox after this trip. But now. Mamma Mia. I am having fun. I’m in heaven. I am touring France one bite at a time. We had roasted lamb ribs last night with Carlo and Oliver. Lentiles to start. With - of course- pan fried foie gras. This trip it’s been Salmon. Crab. My first night in Biarritz I ate the most delicate white fish in a butter sauce at Cafe de Paris and I am still dreaming about it. Yesterdays salad black beans with a red hummus and a Parmesan crisp. Then there was the #UberEatsnight at the hotel. Takeout Little Asia. BoBun. And Nems. Our driver Vincent was an out of work actor / model who delivered food not once but twice that night. Who knew you could get champagne delivery in France? The meal was like #NetflixandChill without the naughty connotations and insert Amazon Prime in lieu of the aforementioned. We binge watched #thewheeloftime and when I woke at 3 and couldn’t sleep anymore I woke my friend Lori who had just arrived from Berlin to accompany me on this last leg and we queued up another episode and ate our second supper of leftover Pad Thai.

Biarritz has enchanted me. 24 degree Celsius on the 1st of January. I’m not sure the conversion but it has to be a solid 75F. Surfers in wetsuits walking barefoot past Hermes. Great shopping. And those miles and miles of beaches with views of the mountains and Spain in the background. But my favorite stop in town is Les Halles de Biarritz, le paradis des gourmands with Carlo leading the way. This market alone is a reminder of why I choose to live in Europe. This has been a good vacation and it’s not over yet.

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