When, at the tender age of 18, I sang along to Billy Joel’s Vienna Waits for You, identifying oh so well with those lyrics… Slow down, you crazy child You’re so ambitious for a juvenile But then if you’re so smart, tell me Why are you still so afraid? Where’s the fire, what’s the hurry about? You’d better cool it… Read More
Right after we got back from our week in the Loire Atlantique, my family came to visit. And then yesterday it was la rentrée (back to school) with tons of meetings planned for each class and extra-curricular activity. So this is a “lite” post containing mostly pictures of a couple of the towns we visited. A few summers ago we… Read More
Last week we visited the medieval city of Gurérande (gar-ahnd) and its nearby salt marshes, and there we learned how to harvest sea salt. Curious about that? When we started the tour, the guide showed us what salicorne (sah-lee-corn) looks like. In English, it’s called samphire, and it’s “a fleshy European seacoast plant (Crithmum maritimum) of the carrot family that is… Read More
This, friends, is a round-up of books that are set in France* in a variety of genres. I’m hoping that by including 13 of them in one place, you francophiles will be inspired to read something new. If you’ve already read one or more of them, why not leave a comment saying what you thought for the other readers! All… Read More
This is our tenth anniversary of going to Brittany every summer. My husband has four brothers, who each have kids. And every July for two weeks, we all congregate with his parents in one large house, rented from the parents of friends of ours from church (and if that isn’t enough prepositions to keep your brain busy …) where we… Read More
When my husband’s colleague came into Paris for a few days of team-building, one of the things they wanted to do was take a cooking class (and eat really good food). I’m lucky enough to have the connections to set such a thing up. Didier Quémener – aka Chef Q – proposed a cooking demonstration for the group of 14 people (recipes… Read More
