Tag: Île de Ré

• Île de Ré

  

  Quiet, deep minty-green shutters and a soft palm. Seagulls gently calling out over the orange rooftops. Warm sunrise glow, deep and rich like a sunset. A slow form of breathing returns, fresh air. Sweet air, creeping in from the tiny crack where the shutters meet and loosely hang open. It is my 29th birthday, and…

  Sam

  December 13, 2019

  France

  Ars-en-Ré, Île de Ré, Featured, Les Portes-en-Ré, Phare des Baleines, Saint-Martin-de-Ré

• Saint-Martin-de-Ré

  

  Saint-Martin-de-Ré, bright, hot sun. Warm whites, pastel shutters. Solitary hollyhocks. Salty, sweaty, slow. Oyster shells in crates and bins. Boats sitting on the sand, stuck in the harbor, and fishermen selling the fresh catch. Wild, raw. Real. My birthday trip to the French coast, but this time, instead of the south, to the west –…

  Sam

  December 12, 2019

  France

  Île de Ré, Europe, France, Saint-Martin-de-Ré