January Garden Notes: Slowly, slowly, the light is returning, clutching at a few extra moments each day before slowly slipping behind the field line. From the beginning to the end of the month, we’ve gained an hour. Soon there’ll be enough light in the day to wake up sleeping seeds and get the garden growing in earnest.
Our Olive Harvest: There is something quite magical about the taste of olive oil fresh from the press. The rich aromas, the grassy, buttery flavor, as you dip your baguette into the thick green-yellow oil, savouring the peppery, spicy aftertaste—it is an experience you will never forget.
Tell Your Story: Most of the tales told by the local seniors were not written down. It was storytelling in the true oral tradition of the “conteurs” (storytellers), an activity still happening today in France.
The importance of your name in France: Why its wise to keep all the documents that confirm our identity in see-thru plastic pocket folders in files that we carry with us to any and all official meetings
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.
The Postcard Exchange: We have come to the end of this very popular project. And what a joyous project this has been.
Artisan life –The long tradition of respecting the terroir is so deeply entrenched in the cultural thread that you feel ashamed to eat a crêpe outside of Brittany, and you will be hard-pressed to find a peach in October.
The Postcard Exchange: What fun - The MyFrenchLife Community is particpating in The Postcard Exchange - you too can join in.
Mark introduces us to Tony Jackovich with this very interesting story of their meeting and of Tony's life.
French woman, Jeanne Baret was the first woman to circumnavigate the globe in the 18th century
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