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Better With Bacon By:  Sara Bogush

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Bordeaux is often considered the centre of the wine trade and home to some of the world's finest wines, but traditionally Bordeaux has not had the best reputation for welcoming visitors. However, things are changing very fast, and now, more and more châteaux are opening their doors to wine tourists – some with the complete razzmatazz of horse-rides through the vineyards and luxury bedrooms to stay in; others simply offering a warm welcome to taste their wines.

A few times in your life, if you’re lucky, you read a book that totally changes the way you view the world.  One such book that is life-changing is entitled Africa Trek (actually, two volumes), by Alexandre and Sonia Poussin.

One of the most difficult things to do while traveling is to capture the essence of your travels. For some of us, we take photos and try to remember that way. For others, travel journaling is the way to remember. Yet others just live, and remember.  None of these ways is wrong - but there is always a better way to do anything, isn't there?

Gustave Flaubert is considered one of the greatest Western writers (who among us hasn't read Madame Bovary?), due to his love of - and search for - finding the right words to express himself.  I recently read an incredible book about Flaubert - and, importantly - about Normandy and his sense of place and home.