Personal Garonne

Everyone touched by the Garonne carries their own river story. For mountain guides, it's watching glaciers retreat. For Toulouse tech workers, it's lunch breaks by the water. For Bordeaux vintners, it's morning mist over vines. For fishermen, it's reading tides passed down through generations.

Ana Rodriguez, whose grandparents fled Spain's civil war, found identity by the Garonne: "We were Spanish at home, French at school, neither and both. The river understood. It flows from Spain to France without changing its nature. By the Garonne, I learned you can carry multiple homes in one heart."