And the the The This is in France episode 25. Hello, I'm Annie and I'm Elise and we welcome you to the join us in France travel

podcast.

Elise is a professional tour guide, art historian and a really good storyteller.

Yes, indeed.

But on today's show, the stories are going to be told by somebody different.

We have invited a wonderful lady called Laura K. Lawless to talk to us about an adventure she had around France.

She went around traveling the six corners of the hexagon is what she called it.

Do you want to tell us what that means?

Well, France is, as she does mention when she starts talking about it,

France is basically theoretically in the shape of a

hexagon, which I think most people know is a six-sided form.

And it's referred to that way.

For instance, if you watch the news

with the weather forecast, they always start by saying,

in the hexagon today, they're going to talk

about what's going on in the hexagon.

And a lot of that has to do with the fact that on,

basically if you take a look at the shape of France,

you have what are almost three sides that are coastline, which is the Mediterranean side,

which is basically a curve but kind of going on an angle northeast, and then you have the entire western side which comes to a very big point

out at the extreme end of the region called Brittany and so it does have a vague resemblance to a hexagon. And it is the way people

talk about it. So if they talk about, the weather they talk about what's going on in the

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