And why it might be exactly the women's retreat in France you're looking for. Let's talk about Provence for a second. When most women start researching a retreat in the south of France, they picture lavender fields. Rosé at noon. A farmhouse with shutters the color of a faded sky. Maybe a market or something where someone is selling you soap that smells like the entire region smashed into a single bar. That Provence exists. It's lovely. It's also exactly what everyone else is doing. Avignon...

Four years ago, Maison d'Amies was a sentence I said out loud to my hubby: "I want to start a small-group travel company for women, in France." That's it. That's all it was. And to his credit, he (as always) encouraged me to do the damn thing. Fast forward to today where I get to announce our full 2027 season: five retreats across France and the French Caribbean, each one built on the same belief that's carried this business from the beginning: that we deserve travel that feels like real...

People sometimes ask me how I design a retreat experience that feels so personal. How does it feel like someone actually knows you, even on the first trip? The honest answer isn't a system or a checklist. It's relationships. Years of them. Carefully tended ones, on both sides of the experience, with the women who travel with me, and with the remarkable local people who make what I do possible. That web of relationships is the real infrastructure of each Maison d'Amies women's retreat in...