
One of the happiest memories of our Flavours of Provence tour
is thanks to Aroma Traveller and now dear friend Dwight Larsen from
Minneapolis who as it happens is an award winning costume designer and
co-winner of no less than two "Tony" awards.
During the tour, Dwight explained that for him, the two most
important qualities that made travelling enjoyable were
"Fun" and Flavour". Not satisfied to leave it at that the
group challenge was to add a third 'F' and after a few
days Greg came up with "Fascination". This led to the creation
of the "Dwight" award for any experience that earned a perfect
score of 10 for each of the 3 F's.
With Dwight as judge, we came close on a number of occasions but it was
the gourmet cooking class with our charming master chef Robert in a
beautiful 200 year old kitchen and the magnificent lunch we enjoyed at
Ousteau de Baumanier that earned us two of these most precious
accolades.
In Dwight's words:-
"Provence had a great effect on me, as I had hoped it would.
For years I have dreamed of going there. Seeing the countryside
and the villages I have read about and imagined. ......I'm in tears
right now as I write this - Why? You gave me the most beautiful
experience I could have ever imagined and I never imagined it. To see
that ever-changing landscape, villages I had dreamed of, market places
I loved walking through and topped off by the Chateau of my
dreams."
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