When is a Walking Stick, not a Walking Stick?
When most people think of a cane or walking stick, they picture someone who is injured or feeble and needs it to walk. Few realise they have a very long history.
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09, 2024
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08, 2024
Henri Troyat: To write, always to write, is often to live
Henri Troyat is considered one of the most prolific and popular French writers of the 20th century, but what else do you know about him?
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07, 2024
Becoming French: Fingerprints, Tears and Reflections
Becoming French: When I received notification to attend the Nice Prefecture in May 2023, I thought this would be one of the last steps before my Titre de Sejour (“residence permit”) was approved...
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06, 2024
Moving to France: Reflections on the last two years
Moving to France: Reflections on the last two years - To be happy, we must try to live every minute with the charm that we find in it when it is nothing more than a memory.
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05, 2024
A Big Negotiation: The reality of buying property in France
Buying Property in France: Would we do it again, given the time, stress, maneuvering, and sleepless nights to secure our beautiful home? Absolutely!
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04, 2024
Le Tignet – Life in our new village
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.
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03, 2024
Moving to France: a 5 suitcase adventure just two years ago
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...
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02, 2024
Moving to France: Lifelong Dreams & First Glimpses – Introducing La Ravanelle
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.
