Category: Living in France
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Café des Puces Menu
Lunch menu at the Marché aux Puces Christmas Lunch celebrated in advance 16 of December 2005
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Christmas in Provence
Christmas offers many traditions in France. After midnight mass in Provence, the family gathers around the table to have a light meal of the, “13 desserts,” to represent the 12 apostles and Jesus. The desserts are: Almonds for the carmelites…
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Dinner with a paint brush
When I arrived in France I didn’t speak a word of French. Humble pie was my constant buddy, observing in silence my new vehicle and redecorating was how I stayed focus during dinner parties. Those dinner parties where we would…
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Boomerangs & Marie Antoinette
My 98 year old friend paints, everyday. He is a tall, elegant, aristocratic man who paints abstracts– Cubes, figures without facial expressions, and one eyed boomerangs in vivid color. His paintings are his hobby, his story, his adventure.…
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Fainting chair and tablecloth
Finding the depot vente is where the true hunt begins! Directions are seldom straightforward, even though straight is what they say…”Go straight,” says the man I have asked at the side of the road, his left hand flat, like a…
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French flea markets and other tales
Setting up When I arrived in France, to our three chambres de bonne* and hallway apartment, it was not a nest. It didn’t have bit of feather fluff in it. Located on the seventh floor, not close to heaven, though…