Take Your Picardy ; From Fairytale Castles to Thistles for Lunch.. This French Region has It All

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IT wasn't quite the down-to-earth French cuisine I'd had in mind... a nut hacked from the centre of a thistle flower, slightly singed burdock-root "fries" and a side order of boiled thistle stem.

But I suppose it was my own fault for going on a wild food bushcraft course while the rest of the family went pony-trekking. They wisely left the thistle-eating to the animals.

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Take Your Picardy ; From Fairytale Castles to Thistles for Lunch.. This French Region has It All

We were sampling two of the many activities on offer at La Croix du Vieux Pont, a sprawling camping and mobile home parc about 70 miles north-east of Paris, in the Picardy region.

And in truth the wild food course was a fascinating - and surprisingly filling - way to spend three hours while my daughter Emily, five, and ...

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