How to live the French dream: Visit, move, live, study, work in France: Stories about frustrations, achievements & celebrations.
Runaway Wife: After 40 years of making my living by writing and editing, I decided if this place I now call home is a good enough subject for the writers in Paris before me, I should give it a try.
Paris is Always Worth It: A Brief Parisian Autobiography in Three Parts by Samuel Lopez-Barrantes
Paris is always worth it but I was unmoored in Paris teaching English to bankers and insurance clerks.
Paris Is Always Worth It - Or, how a novelist might build a life in the City of Light is Part 1 of a (Brief) Parisian Autobiography by Samuél Lopez Barrantes
Le Tignet: I vividly remember the first morning, the “coooo coooo co” of the tourterelles (turtledoves) to begin the day. Excitedly opening the wooden shutters, the first light revealed a magnificent sky, a canvas streaked with deep orange, yellow, and red feathery wisps behind the clouds.
Moving to France: This trip was going to be interesting, a holiday & maybe a new life. It's been two years of work and living a familiar routine, the beach, beautiful home. Idyllic really but to grow you need to expand your horizons...
Moving to France from Australia in your late forties, with your family, is not simple, let alone the prospect of becoming the custodians of an 18th-century bastide, the former summer home of a famous French writer.
My love affair with France continues to develop: I now have a home there where I spend as much time as possible.
Grenoble: Living and writing in the French Alps - New to Grenoble - Moving to a new country - New as a Contributor to MyFrenchLife Magazine.
French Family Connections: Can family photos make French connections across generations? Mine do.... A story of my family and France.
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