Maybe it takes a girl from Wisconsin to fully appreciate the unique cheese culture of France.

That's where you can find hundreds of small towns that produce a distinctive local cheese.

This lovely little village, it's still sort of within its medieval footprint, and French

tourists tend to go there, but American tourists don't.

Kathy Lyson returns to travel with Rick Steeves with a guide to the Cheese Lover's paradise of France.

But as Sarah Turnbull discovered, to really appreciate the country's traditions and social

codes, Mary a Frenchman.

I think we can sometimes forget that it's very difficult for the other partner as well because for the first time in in Frederick's case

He was seeing his country through someone else's eyes and an American explains how to best visit the kind of remote villages in West Africa where his forefathers

lived.

If you follow that etiquette, you're welcomed and you're invited to stay and eat and if you want to even

come and stay tonight and whatever you need, they'll provide it for you if they have the means.

We are falling in love with light from France to the Ivory Coast in the hour ahead on Travel with

Rick Steeves.

France is certainly one of the most gallant cultures in the world where a love of beauty and tradition includes a fondness for artisan cheese.

They even have a proverb that says a meal without cheese is like a beautiful woman who only has one eye.

Hi, I'm Rick Steves.

In just a moment, author Sarah Turnbull and Nina Soviet tell us about the cultural surprises that arise

when you marry a Frenchman.

And a young African American clothing designer

shares the discoveries he's made experiencing

his family roots in Nigeria, Ghana, and the Ivory Coast.

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