How to live the French dream: Visit, move, live, study, work in France: Stories about frustrations, achievements & celebrations.
Books: With just 12 months or so until we move to France, I am feeling a little overwhelmed today with how much “stuff” we have accumulated over 36 years together. I have a taste for modern Irish fiction, cookery books, and anything feline-related.
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...
Sunday French lunch captures the essence of French life: Good food, good friends & family, good conversation and good cheer.
Saint Geneviève, the patron saint of Paris. Her image towers over the people walking past her on Pont de la Tournelle, overlooking the Seine River.
Buying Property in France: Would we do it again, given the time, stress, maneuvering, and sleepless nights to secure our beautiful home? Absolutely!
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.
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