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    SLOW TRAVEL & THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS

    Oct 19, 2019 3 minutes
    WORDS_ PATTI MILLER

    ONE evening last year after we had walked all day, my partner and I had a four course meal with the Mayor of Cubières in the southeast of France. It’s not as grand as it sounds; Cubières is a one-horse village, we were sitting in the mayor’s kitchen, and four course meals are every-day in that part of the world, but we did feast and talk for hours.

    The mayor, Yvonne, told us that her husband was un gauchiste, (left-winger) but that she was à droite, to the right, an amicable

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