The second principal destination of our Northern Hemisphere Friends and Family tour was Vacquières, a village of no more than 600 people just north of Montpelier, France. Two long-time residents are our friends from our Syrian Football Night Dinners, Philippe and Catherine Lashermes.
Philippe and Catherine left Syria in 1992 and after a short stint in Cote d’Ivoire they bought an old farm home in a village and fixed it up and had three children along the way. Philippe commutes to work in Montpelier as an agricultural researcher by ebike.
We spent a few days catching up with them and cycling through the villages and vineyards of the Grand Pic Saint-Loup wine district of the Languedoc region.
