My Solo Fling with a Mediterranean Playboy
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It was a blustery August day in Marseille. The view overlooking the Mediterranean was dramatic. The waves crashed against the rocks, mere feet below my table.
I chose Restaurant Peron because it was extensively featured in famed author Peter Mayle’s Caper series. The four books ran the gamut from vintage wine theft and unsolvable diamond heists to the influx of Russians along the French Riviera, and a real estate deal gone bad. Throughout, the protagonists ate and drank their way deliciously from Paris to Provence, as they moved ever closer to cracking the case in question. I had read and reread the books many times during the frigid New England winter and promised myself I would go to France the following summer and walk in the footsteps of Mayle’s characters.