The warm latter days of summer are among the best and are to be savoured. In this episode we hear about the history of the folding fan, discover the recently restored La Bastide de Saint-Tropez, visit Casa Reîa on Portugal’s Atlantic coast, check out Zurich’s Eisvogel ice cream and muse on the meditative power of archery.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We're in agreement.
At Confect, the warm latter days of summer are among the best.
And what's more, they're here to be savoured.
Though you might be a little closer to tackling those work to do lists, the spirit of the holiday season lingers on into September with an eye on your autumn wardrobe.
There are swims to be had and beaches to explore.
This is the time to recalibrate, recharge and limber up to a new season of projects and plans.
This episode of Confet Corner celebrates the regenerative power those last balmy days of sunshine can give us, almost like fuel for the cooler months ahead.
On this show, we hear about a handsome and recently restored bastide on the Cote d'azur, a newly opened bar on Portugal's Atlantic coast.
And we check out an ice cream hotspot helping Zurich residents through a hot, muggy summ.
And our contributing editor muses on the meditative power of archery and why overthinking your aims can misfire.
As we enjoy those final swims in the gloaming.
As the first leaves start to fall from the trees, it's well to bank these heady memories and drink in the carefree sentiment of summer for the year ahead.
This is Confect Corner and I'm your host, Sophie Grove.
The theatres, particularly opera houses, produced plans of their seating arrangements on fans so that you could effectively check who was sitting in which box with three fingers, release the string and launch the arrow with a thwack, perhaps to the bullseye, perhaps not.
It doesn't matter.
This isn't shooting.
This is a shortcut to meditation.
So from the food to the ingredients to putting forward the local providers, which is very important for us.
We want to be a kind of ambassador for Portugal and for Caparica, so the biggest compliment people can give us is, oh, wow, this makes me want to move to Lisbon.
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