My first experience of France, not counting stepping foot out of the airport through Paris to the next destination, was in the windy port city of La Rochelle. We arrived at the beginning of autumn and it was an unexpected adventure for me, first time in a temperate country. La Rochelle is an old port city on the western coasts (Atlantic Coast) of France and is part of the region called Poitou-Charentes which is basically an agricultural region. La Rochelle is situated on the department of Charente-Maritime and is a principal holiday destination for French tourist escaping Paris in summer.
The old port of La Rochelle, once flourished as an important trading post in France during the age of colonialisation is now a leasure boat marina...
Well, Indonesia was figured in a shop along the old port...
The city was in the past a Protestant stronghold in a Catholic country and had seen very bloody history during the reign of Louis XIII under the then Cardinal Richelieu.
