French la Vie

  In France, marriages take place in the city hall where you live. Then if you want a religious ceremony or ceremony other than the legal one you can do…

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    Below are a series of photos taken by Sacha on the day we (Chelsea and I) went shopping for wedding clothes. Sacha went along to have his suit…

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    As we have been on several cruises, we had visited most of the ports of call before, but that did not bother us, in fact, we knew what…

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  Our friends Gary and Ching were on the same cruise as us. In Savona, we wanted to go to the Vino e Farinata restaurant. The following photos Gary sent to…

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    Ten years ago today my father died. Space and time are strange, hard to grasp, how could ten years go by when I feel my father is still…

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    First, stop Italy. Did you know Sacha can eat an entire box of pasta in one sitting? If it were homemade he would probably consume more.    

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    Bags packed and off we go on our happily umpteenth cruise, with the entire Rolland-Benis Clan, my Belle-Mere offered her entire family this trip. Who would have known that…

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      Provencal clothing: Classic 1800s Lace cap, a flat straw hat, with a black velvet choker with a cross attached, a Provencal printed cotton scarf tied just so…

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      The French village where I live started nearly two thousand years ago deep within the Provencal foothills. Over a thousand years ago it was destroyed by a…

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