We Wander France · Dordogne, France
Dispatches from the trails, markets and back roads of France, written from the field by your guide. Real travel. No filters.
What happens when you follow the smell of bread and wood smoke instead of the tourist map? A solo week in the Dordogne, a village no guidebook mentions and the quiet discovery that getting lost is the whole point.
"Getting lost is not the problem. It's the whole point."
Golden light, empty trails and harvest markets, why October may be the best month to walk the Dordogne, and why our next departure lands squarely in autumn.
There's a difference between touring a country and wandering through it. A slow travel philosophy for rural France and why the back roads of the Dordogne reward those who travel on foot.
Before a single guest walks a trail, she already has. A raw account of solo scouting in Aveyron, sore feet, difficult days and the quiet work behind every curated walk.
Diagnosed mid-business-launch with breast cancer, a candid, darkly funny and ultimately hopeful post about resilience and what it takes to keep building something you believe in.
How a solo 50th birthday trip in France, the heat, a valley view and years of wandering alone, became the seed of We Wander France.
Sarlat in January, truffle markets, medieval streets without the summer crowds and a lifelong mushroom hunter finally finding her holy grail in the Dordogne.
After weeks of scouting trails that didn't make the cut, the We Wander France itinerary is finally set, designed for the pleasure of discovery over a checklist.
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