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Traveling In France: Languedoc Versus The Béarn

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
May 11, 2010
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The Languedoc Versus The Béarn–Contrasting The Glories Of French Country Springtime

“I’m over in the Languedoc region of the ‘other’ south of France,” writes Correspondent from that country Lucy Culpepper.

“As we drove from the Béarn in the Pyrenees Atlantic department on the west coast of France to the Languedoc department on the east, following the line of the Pyrenees Mountains, I was particularly struck, this springtime, by the contrast of the two regions. The early maize is starting to poke through the dark chocolate-colored Atlantic Pyrenees soils; it is verdant and abundantly green with every type of deciduous tree coming into leaf.

“As we drove east, the soils gradually changed color to a rich, red, reminding me of the tropical soils of Central and South America. Rows and rows of vines are in early leaf, contrasting beautifully with the red soil. On unfarmed Languedocian land there is plenty of green, but it’s an olive green; there are many trees, but they are mostly evergreen with omnipresent long, tall Cypresses swaying in the wind and huge maple trees, with peeling white bark, lining the avenues leading into villages.

“Parts of the Languedoc remind me of pictures of Tuscany; houses are built from the stone that makes the soils so red, and roofs are covered with red clay tiles. As you pass through villages they sometimes, when the light is right, seem bathed in a permanent sunset of yellow, orange, and red.

“Over in the Béarn, houses are made from darker stone and painted white (and Basque red if the owner hails from the Basque Béarn), with wooden eaves and fascias. They have bigger windows and generally look better cared for. Perhaps that is simply a result of the more constant climate of the Béarn in comparison with the longer, hotter summers and colder, drier winters of the Languedoc…”

Kathleen Peddicord

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Kathleen Peddicord has covered the live, retire, and do business overseas beat for more than 30 years and is considered the world's foremost authority on these subjects. She has traveled to more than 75 countries, invested in real estate in 21, established businesses in 7, renovated historic properties in 6, and educated her children in 4.

Kathleen has moved children, staff, enterprises, household goods, and pets across three continents, from the East Coast of the United States to Waterford, Ireland... then to Paris, France... next to Panama City, where she has based her Live and Invest Overseas business. Most recently, Kathleen and her husband Lief Simon are dividing their time between Panama and Paris.

Kathleen was a partner with Agora Publishing’s International Living group for 23 years. In that capacity, she opened her first office overseas, in Waterford, Ireland, where she managed a staff of up to 30 employees for more than 10 years. Kathleen also opened, staffed, and operated International Living publishing and real estate marketing offices in Panama City, Panama; Granada, Nicaragua; Roatan, Honduras; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Quito, Ecuador; and Paris, France.

Kathleen moved on from her role with Agora in 2007 and launched her Live and Invest Overseas group in 2008. In the years since, she has built Live and Invest Overseas into a successful, recognized, and respected multi-million-dollar business that employs a staff of 35 in Panama City and dozens of writers and other resources around the world.

Kathleen has been quoted by The New York Times, Money magazine, MSNBC, Yahoo Finance, the AARP, and beyond. She has appeared often on radio and television (including Bloomberg and CNBC) and speaks regularly on topics to do with living, retiring, investing, and doing business around the world.

In addition to her own daily e-letter, the Overseas Opportunity Letter, with a circulation of more than 300,000 readers, Kathleen writes regularly for U.S. News & World Report and Forbes.

Her newest book, "How to Retire Overseas: Everything You Need to Know to Live Well (for Less) Abroad," published by Penguin Random House, is the culmination of decades of personal experience living and investing around the world.

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