{"id":3265,"date":"2015-06-22T14:54:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T21:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=3265"},"modified":"2015-06-22T14:59:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T21:59:27","slug":"battles-and-bougainvillea-in-the-south-of-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/22\/battles-and-bougainvillea-in-the-south-of-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Battles and Bougainvillea in the South of France"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"maquis\"<\/a>
Maquis of the French Resistance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There’s lots of history around here – spread out among the beauty that distracts from most of it. \u00a0For the second time, today in the village of Borme Les Mimosas, the flowers overwhelm. \u00a0Borme wins the best in show award for the region regularly and it’s not hard to see why. \u00a0 But before I\u00a0share the loveliness, here’s a cool fact: the WWII resistance fighters known as\u00a0Maquis<\/a>\u00a0got their nickname from the dark green plants and shrubs that\u00a0covered huge swaths of ground and offered\u00a0perfect hiding places – so perfect that the brave men and women they sheltered came to share the name.<\/p>\n

War history haunts the fields and French villages crammed with memorials and statues, villages\u00a0also overflowing\u00a0with flowers, climbing the walls, overtaking public walkways and making very turn in the tiny streets a wonderful new surprise.<\/p>\n

So for the second and probably the last time, here are the award-winning\u00a0blooms. \u00a0This time:\u00a0the flowers of\u00a0Borme des Mimosas.<\/p>\n

\"Multicolored<\/a>
Multicolored Blooms of Borme<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bourn<\/a>
Borme purple and red<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bourn<\/a>
Flower petals fill a tiny square<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bourn<\/a>
Borme’s purple pathway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bourn<\/a>
Flower-decked covered passageway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How’s that for a treat and a break from all the awfulness that seems to haunt us lately. \u00a0Whoever urged us to stop and smell the roses – well. . .<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s lots of history around here – spread out among the beauty that distracts from most of it. \u00a0For the second time, today in the village of Borme Les Mimosas, the flowers overwhelm. \u00a0Borme wins the best in show award for the region regularly and it’s not hard to see why. \u00a0 But before I\u00a0share … Continue reading Battles and Bougainvillea in the South of France<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,9,78],"tags":[3321,3322,3323,3320,2655,3325,3324,2654,2621,2640,3282,3319,3419,1113,231],"class_list":["post-3265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-politics","category-travel","tag-borme","tag-borme-des-mimosa","tag-bougainvillea","tag-cote-dazur","tag-france","tag-french-resistance","tag-maqui","tag-resistance","tag-seabourn","tag-seabourn-cruise","tag-seabourn-sojourn","tag-south-of-france","tag-travel","tag-world-war-ii","tag-wwii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-QF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3281,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions\/3281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}