River Sorgue

[salmo]

My wife and I were lucky enough to visit the South of France last week for our 40th wedding anniversary. Our second stop was at a country farmhouse. As the owner showed us around the farm we crossed a small river. I asked what it was called. She said it was the Sorgue. Of course I didn’t bring my fly rod.

 

[riverwhy]

Petrarch wrote about the river when his father took the family to Avignon during the Babylonian Captivity. Looks like an enchanting place. I always worked fishing and geography into my Presentations in my AP European History class. I have not made it to the south of France yet (Only a daytrip into the Pyrenees). That area will certainly be on my must-see list if I can pry my wife away from the beaches.

Fontaine-de-Vaucluse - Wikipedia

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[JimNovo]

I’d say “welcome back” in French, but I barely have a mastery of the English language.

 

[salmo]

We joke that to our kids English is a second language.