Les Vosges, Off the Beaten Track
Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Annie Sargent
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Table of Contents for this Episode
- [00:03:05] Ancient mountains, like the Adirondacks
- [00:04:31] Épinal is the only city
- [00:05:20] Elyse lived in Épinal for a year
- [00:06:11] Lots of grass and happy cows
- [00:06:25] Best for active vacations
- [00:07:01] Vittel and Contrex are west of Épinal
- [00:07:28] Thermal baths stations
- [00:07:52] Tourism around natural water
- [00:08:20] The Vosges department is filled with quaint villages
- [00:09:39] Clairefontaine paper products
- [00:10:08] A nice place for affordable summer homes
- [00:11:24] Second largest wooded area of France
- [00:11:58] Hills, low altitude ski resorts, hiking, biking, nature trails
- [00:13:17] Large natural parks with lots of trails
- [00:14:33] Cross country skiing and summer activities in Gerardmer
- [00:15:16] Daffodil festival (FĂŞte des Jonquilles)
- [00:16:15] Blueberries
- [00:16:34] Festival international du film fantastique de Gérardmer
- [00:17:07] Ruins of Monasteries hidden in the forest
- [00:18:25] Why visit the Vosges?
- [00:19:49] Lots of pretty (and not famous) villages including Domremy where Joan of Arc was born
- [00:20:34] Hwo Visorando works to plan hikes
- [00:24:17] Les images d’Épinal
- [00:27:13] Plombières the flavor of ice cream
- [00:27:39] Lalique and cristallerie
- [00:28:10] Canal des Vosges
- [00:28:44] There are five remarkable gardens in the Vosges
- [00:29:20] The Vosges is best for slow tourism
- [00:29:45] Wildlife in the Vosges
- [00:31:11] Great nature trails for families
- [00:31:52] Food specialties of the Vosges
- [00:40:43] New Patreon Reward for Donors!
- [00:42:10] Annie’s Itinerary Service
- [00:42:41] Can’t do an itinerary review? Get my VoiceMap tours!
- [00:43:18] Taking the TGV at CDG
- [00:47:49] This week in French news
- [00:48:58] Annie’s personal update
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| 0:00.0 | The This is |
| 0:19.2 | This is join us in France episode 385 Trois Saint-Qua-Qua-Vinc. |
| 0:22.2 | Bonjure, I'm Annie Sergeant and join us in France is the podcast where we talk about France. |
| 0:28.0 | Everyday life in France, great places to visit in France, French culture, history, gastronomy, and news related to travel to France. |
| 0:37.0 | Today I bring you a conversation with my friend Elise Riven of Toulouse Guided Walks about the vorsh. No, not the pla de vorsh in Paris that you've probably heard of, but the vorsh, the French |
| 0:50.3 | department, number 88. It's in the grand test region and the chef lee or prefecture is |
| 0:58.1 | epinal. It's a lovely part of France that is very much under the radar but offers wonderful recreational opportunities, |
| 1:07.0 | marvelous bucolic scenery and some really quaint villages. |
| 1:12.6 | After the interview, we'll have some travel news and I would like to remind you that this |
| 1:18.8 | podcast is supported by donors and listeners who buy my tours and services including my very popular itinerary |
| 1:26.5 | consult and my GPS self-guided tours of Paris. You can browse all of that at Anise Boutique, join us in France.com |
| 1:36.2 | for slash boutique. Bonjour Elise. |
| 1:48.6 | Bonjou Annie! |
| 1:50.0 | We are going to have a nice conversation about a place that's pretty cold. |
| 1:54.0 | Yes, actually, it's a place that's relatively cold. |
| 1:58.0 | There are two or three sections of France that are not the places where there are the highest mountains but |
| 2:05.1 | that are known for having the coldest weather in the wintertime yeah and of |
| 2:09.9 | course one of them is in the area that's called the Massif Saint-Tral. |
| 2:14.4 | And the other is the place we're going to talk about today, which is the Vogue. |
| 2:18.8 | Le Vogue. |
| 2:19.8 | Not the Place de Vogue. |
| 2:21.8 | No. But Le Vogue. Le Voj, is a mountainous area. |
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