The Palais de la Découverte (pronounced pah-lay de la day-coo-vairte) is located on Franklin Roosevelt Avenue, just off the Champs Elysées. It’s a discovery museum for children, housed in part of the Grand Palais, which was built for the 1900 World’s Fair (Exposition Universelle). I had to do a little research, actually, as I knew the Eiffel Tower had also… Read More
I just need to plunge right in, don’t I? It’s Thursday’s post on France and I promised to write about the Epiphany celebration where all of France (Europe? The Eastern Christian Churches?) eats the galette des rois. With alcoholic bubbling cider. But I’m having trouble plunging right in because I’m distracted. I’m forlorn because my husband is in Minnesota (he… Read More
My first experience with a French New Year’s celebration was when I was studying abroad in Avignon my junior year in college. Somehow I had a connection to a bonafide French guy living in a posh area of Paris and I went there for New Year’s Eve. I think his name was Laurent. That seems like it should be his… Read More
Marché de Noel simply means “christmas market,” and the first word is pronounced “mahr-shay.” I was first introduced to the wonders of a European christmas market when I was visiting the Kirs Kringle Mart in Heidelberg oh, so many years ago. I tasted gluhwein (hot, spiced wine) and ate something delicious – probably breaded, fried meat – and I was… Read More
Would you like to know how to pronounce the “Champs Elysées?” For the first word, you say the name “Shawn.” But right before you’re about to touch your tongue to the roof of your mouth to make the “n” sound, you swap it out with a “z” instead. Still with me? So it’s like this – shaw(n)z – ay-lee-zay. It’s… Read More
My goal for this week’s French post was to show you one of the types of houses found in the Parisian area. But it has been raining pretty solidly and I didn’t feel like going out with my camera on the hunt for houses. Then I got a brainstorm. When we first moved to France and were looking to rent… Read More
