Camargue and Gard Trip Report, Episode 115
Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Annie Sargent
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2016
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Claire is French-American, she was born in Nîmes to a French father and an American mother. Her family moved to the US when she was a few years old, but her first language was French. Growing up in the US, she lost most of her French, but she spent her Junior year of High School in France and it all came back. Her American life has been infused with French culture and she shares some great tips about how to get to know France like a local.
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| 0:00.0 | On today's join us in France, a trip report with Claire Armstrong on her many visits to the area of France called Camargue, right around Nymn and Avigno. the way. The This is join us in France episode 115. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello I'm Annie and join us in France is a show about all things French or as I like to say these days |
| 0:54.3 | edutainment about France I love France I was born and raised here I live in France but |
| 1:01.8 | I've also lived in the UK and the US for a couple of decades |
| 1:06.2 | so I have a unique perspective on my own country and I want you to understand |
| 1:12.4 | France better so you can have a wonderful time and understand what you are looking at when you visit. |
| 1:19.0 | For show notes and photos on this episode just in case some of the things we mentioned go a little |
| 1:26.2 | bit too fast go to join us in France.com forward slash 115. |
| 1:33.4 | Claire Armstrong is my guest on today's show and she is a frequent visitor to France because she comes from |
| 1:42.4 | a French-American family. |
| 1:44.8 | Her father is French, her mother is American, she was actually born in France and spent the |
| 1:50.7 | first few years of her life in France and then the family moved to the US where she has lived ever since, but she has |
| 1:59.2 | made frequent visits back to France and knows it inside and out just like a local. |
| 2:06.7 | She shares some wonderful information about the area that she returns to to visit family frequently. The Bouchjuron, the Gar, and the Ero, and the Camarg. |
| 2:20.0 | This is an interesting area because it's actually tucked in between Provence and Occitani, |
| 2:26.4 | but it's its own thing. |
| 2:28.7 | And it doesn't get quite as many visitors as other places in France, but it's absolutely wonderful as you will see. |
| 2:37.0 | Hello, Claire, and welcome to join us in France. |
| 2:40.0 | Hello, thank you. |
| 2:42.0 | So nice of you to come on the show to tell us about your many visits to France. |
| 2:47.0 | Oh, I'm happy to. Love, love to talk about France. |
| 2:51.0 | Oh, that's great. I can't believe how many times that you've been. How many? Do you keep count? |
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