Visiting and applauding innovative female friends in southwestern France.
Author and photographer Marion Kaplan in the Gers region is working on her fifth book about the 100-plus countries she’s visited on various journalistic assignments. (Photo: John Keeney)
Christine Cassou, in Casteljaloux in the Lot-et-Garonne region, is designing a magical public garden with a classic pigeon coop in honor of her father and uncle. (Photo: John Keeney)
Lisa La Plant, an American in Bordeaux, created a fine wine with a wonderfully named La Femme Pressée label.
Loving Pomoeria, the house that American Lisa La Plant renovated in Saint-Émillion.
Catherine Domain, who owns the Librairie Ulysse bookstore on Ile Saint-Louis in Paris, at her on-the-Atlantic-Ocean store in Hendaye.
About Joel
Joel Stratte-McClure has been a global trekker since the 1970s. He lived in France for over 30 years, working as a journalist, before he turned his attention to a unique life-time-project of walking the shores of the Mediterranean. The first 4,401 kilometers are explored in his inspirational and entertaining first book "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean." The next 4,401 kilometers are covered in the gods-filled sequel, "The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” published on Valentine's Day 2013. The last 4,401 kilometers will be discussed in the last book of the trilogy currently entitled "The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Alexander the Great Walks the Mediterranean."