The great wine swindle 🇫🇷🇬🇧

Un vignoble en crise, des paysages arrachés, et derrière la carte postale du vin français, un système qui craque de toutes parts. Entre surproduction, déséquilibres économiques et décisions difficiles, Le grand gâchis viticole explore ce que beaucoup préfèrent ne pas voir : l’envers d’un monde en pleine mutation. Un constat lucide, parfois brutal, sur ce que devient la viticulture quand elle perd ses repères.

A vineyard in crisis, landscapes being torn up, and behind the postcard image of French wine, a system cracking at every seam. Caught between overproduction, economic imbalances and hard decisions, The great wine swindle explores what many would rather not see: the other side of a world in the midst of transformation. A clear-eyed, sometimes brutal account of what viticulture becomes when it loses its bearings.

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L’été 🇫🇷🇬🇧

From soft morning light to the first real warmth of the year, L’été reflects on the small, beautiful signals that summer has arrived—and how they quietly transform everyday life. Click here.

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6 Hours of Imola

A shift is in the air again—the kind you can’t quite name but feel in your bones. In this latest post, I capture that fleeting moment when seasons, habits, and headspace all begin to turn at once, inviting reflection, restlessness, and maybe a little reinvention. If you’ve ever sensed the quiet nudge that something’s about to change, this one will speak to you—come see what’s stirring.

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The week that was 17/2026 🇬🇧🇫🇷

This week: a needle, a cardiologist who communicates exclusively in meaningful silences, and one man with a Kärcher on a mission. Nothing dramatic happened — no epiphanies, no reversals of fortune — and yet somehow the pool tiles are spotless, the heart is in acceptable working order, and Le Mans is only eight weeks away. A quiet week in the Occitanie sun, done rather well. Click in.

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The sausage summit 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇫🇷


Forget NATO — the real test of German diplomacy is finding Lula a decent Wurst. Click here for the full story

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The taxman cometh 🇫🇷🇬🇧


The French tax portal is open

enter at your own risk.

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Total eclipse of the sun

What happens when the quiet Moon steals the spotlight from the blazing Sun? In a fleeting cosmic moment, shadow meets fire—and the universe delivers a spectacle you’ll never look at the same way again. Click to witness the celestial photobomb you didn’t know you were waiting for.

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Carcassonne 🇬🇧🇫🇷


Some cities get lucky. Carcassonne got strategic positioning. The result was two thousand years of invasions, crusades, and general unpleasantness—interrupted only by brief periods of prosperity and the occasional flying pig. Click here to find out more…

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Canal du Midi 🇬🇧🇫🇷

Before the TGV, before the motorway, before even the steam engine, one obsessed Frenchman carved a 241-kilometre waterway through the south of France using nothing but a battered compass, 15,000 workers, and his entire family fortune. The Canal du Midi is the greatest engineering adventure you’ve probably never heard the full story of — until now.

Avant le TGV, avant l’autoroute, avant même la machine à vapeur, un Français obsédé a creusé un canal de 241 kilomètres à travers le sud de la France en n’utilisant rien d’autre qu’une boussole usée, 15 000 ouvriers et toute sa fortune familiale. Le Canal du Midi est la plus grande aventure d’ingénierie dont vous n’avez probablement jamais entendu toute l’histoire — jusqu’à maintenant.






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