In Spring 2004, I was still a beginner learner of French in the Atlantic seaport town of La-Rochelle. I was there for my 2 semester French immersion course before moving on to Poitiers. Well, part of the program was to absorb the French culture in situ and absorb we did. Each semester, we were offered cultural outings as part of our program and one fine day in spring, we found ourselves tourists in the town of Brouage - Rochefort -Cognac circuit. Brouage is a fortified medieval town, or rather village. Its streets (don't remember how many but there weren't that many) are cobbled, extremely calm and clean and even in this far-flung village in the middle of nowhere in rural France, there is a tourisme office and guided tours...
A quiet street, eerily looking abandonned
A few locals (or local tourists...)
A very unusual and old mailbox there...
Entrance into the fortified village
The Tourisme office
Authentic gems like this that make France such an enduring cultural icon...real men playing petanque on a lazy Sunday morning in the village square
Try these marbles for size...
Stained-glass window inside the church
Outside the church
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