The Wheat of Sainte Barbe’s day
My creche (nativity) is waiting for……
Road trips, villages, festivals, markets, customs, saint days! There are so many opportunities for a new experience. It doesn’t take long to become passionate about ‘the French life’. I have the bug and this is one I love to share!
La poutargue, the caviar of Provence, is the roe of the..
Every year about this time I go into lavender wand production. I am obsessed. Many of you have expressed an interest in learning how…
Sète is the little Venice of the Languedoc. Canals, fishing boats, quaintness, and local character abound.
As we frequently do after groups have left, Xavier and I set out on a road trip. We have been wanting to get back to…
I spent a week in the Auvergne, an area visited infrequently by Americans. This French departement and the area around Le-Puy-en-Velay intrigued me and I…
We are in the Camargue. It is the Rhone River delta and home of the ‘Original Cowboy’.
From time to time, I want to feature some of my favorite villages of France. And, TOURNUS, a village in southern Burgundy just …..
What beautiful craftsmanship! One sees these ‘rideaux’ (curtains) in doorways all over Provence. The true boxwood bead curtain is made from ‘box’, a very dense wood…
There is nothing like a French Road Trip when you have absolutely no plans, don’t know where you are going to end up, and the…
What a great way to begin my sojourn in France! In LYON…a city with its very own traditions……the city known for its traboules, the Guignol…