217: French Trip Travel Musings, Part Trois
The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
Shannon Ables
4.7 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2018
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The final episode taped in France during my travels shares a few memorable moments I had the opportunity experience, and as I had the opportunity to stay at author, blogger and photographer Sharon Santoni's home in France, I wanted to share a few images from the cottage I called home for a few days in northern France.
~The Simple Sophisticate, episode #217
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~Dining at La Couronne (the location where Julia Child enjoyed her first French meal in 1949). Check out more images in my IG Highlights - FranceTripP2 I look forward to writing detailed posts on all that I experienced during my month long trip in France this summer. Look for a majority of the posts to be shared during TSLL's annual French Week which begins on Sunday August 12th; however, a few will be posted prior to this date as I have an abundance of content. TSLL will be taking a week off to settle back into my life in Bend beginning today and resuming with a brand new episode of the podcast and the regular weekly post schedule on Monday July 23rd. ~Catch up on all of my #TSLLFrance2018 moments on Instagram (and be sure to check the Highlights as well). ~Listen to the previous episodes from France below:
~episode #216, French Trip Travel Musings, Part Deux
~episode #215, French Trip Travel Musings, Part Une - Why Not . . . Make the Effort?
Petit Plaisir:
~Fresh goat cheese drizzled lightly with fresh, high quality olive oil, paired with a fresh baguette to be enjoyed after the entrée course of a meal. Below enjoy a few images from Sharon Santoni's cottage where I stayed over the past weekend. Sharon will be sharing tips about her approach to decor as well as details about the many tours she gives throughout France when TSLL's annual French Week takes place beginning August 12th. 
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the simple sophisticated podcast where intelligent living is paired with signature style. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm your host Shannon Ables. And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, |
| 0:21.6 | working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a |
| 0:25.1 | cafe ole. Thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. So I don't know if you can hear that, but those are the fighter jets, the French fighter jets that are returning from Paris going back to the air base after having flown in the red white and blue colors across the city. |
| 1:00.0 | Welcome to the Simple Sophisticate episode 217. I am in France and now I am in the |
| 1:09.2 | northern area of France close to Normandy or in Normandy have had the opportunity and as you're |
| 1:16.7 | listening to this I will have left this place but I have had the opportunity to stay with author, blogger, creative individual, |
| 1:29.4 | Sharon Santoni. |
| 1:32.2 | And right now I am sitting in the cottage that I am staying in at a place and |
| 1:41.8 | throughout our conversation today you'll probably hear the bird. |
| 1:46.7 | You might hear the dogs as I have the barn door open, the half door open, |
| 1:53.9 | and have always had a window or door open |
| 1:57.5 | as I've been here in France |
| 1:59.7 | in every place that I've stayed. |
| 2:01.3 | There's that fresh air is just absolutely luscious. |
| 2:06.6 | And today's episode is really just going to be a meandering of thoughts. This is my last podcast episode from France. The next |
| 2:18.4 | time we meet on the simple sophisticated, I will be back in bend. |
| 2:24.5 | And it has been a wonderful trip. |
| 2:28.8 | A few things I just wanted to talk about. |
| 2:32.4 | I am in the background actually watching Wimbledon. I'm actually just |
| 2:36.6 | seeing right now the Duchess of Sussex and the Duchess of Cambridge arrive at |
| 2:41.0 | Wimbledon to sit in the Royal Box to watch Serena Williams play in the championship |
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