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Monday, 31 May 2010
I love the crazy trucks they have in France!! And the crazy way they park them!!A demain!Love, Charley
Eew!
Penulis : Unknown on Sunday, 30 May 2010 | 23:01
Sunday, 30 May 2010
Okay everyone, prepare to be totally grossed out!!!Last night we had dinner at a Lyonnais Institution, Carnegie Hall. For about one hundred years, mostly during the 20th century, the area around the restaurant Carnegie Hall was were all the meat was butc
VO
Sunday, 30 May 2010
Version Originale. Just went to see the Prince of Persia with my son Teo who is thirteen. There are many things I love about the cinema. The primary thing being that they show all Anglophone films in English with French subtitles. It feels sooooo good sometimes to go into a dark room and hear nothi
Messob
Sunday, 30 May 2010
An Ethiopian restaurant just around the corner from our house. The food is delicious!You eat with your fingers (Just like Jennifer Aniston and Ben Stiller in "Along Came Polly"—ha ha.) and pieces of a spongelike bread called Injera.There are lentil dishe
My Muse
Sunday, 30 May 2010
I have always loved France. I first came here when I was sixteen. (Won’t tell you all how many years ago that was!) I lived with a family for six months; they were lovely and didn’t speak a word of English. I came back when I was nineteen and attended the Sorbonne University for a semester. Both ti
Caramel au Beurre Salé
Sunday, 30 May 2010
The French know that if you want your food to taste out of this world, you gotta use real ingredients. Real butter, mmm….Yes, its diabolical! Yes, its beyond delicious! And wouldn’t you rather put real, fresh butter in your body that chemical substitutes
May days!
Sunday, 30 May 2010
Today is a holiday. The third of four consecutive three or four day weekends in the month of May. When I first moved here I used to go kook-a-lock-a-nagee in the head during the month of May. I would practically foam at the mouth, scream, yell, toss things across the room shouting “How do you peopl
Spring Blossoms
Sunday, 30 May 2010
Spring has come late this year. As I drove home from work today, I decided to stop, get out of the car and look closely at the blossoms I had been so admiring for days. Mother Nature makes such perfect beauty.A demain.Much love, Charley
A typical French Saturday in the city
Sunday, 30 May 2010
Here in France, shops close at 7:00 pm, so people get home around 8 or so. On a Friday night, that doesn’t leave you with a whole lot of time get your groceries or run your errands, especially since the grocery stores all close at 7:30pm. Can you imagine?When I first moved here, it was a BIG adjust
French Sunday lunch in the country
Sunday, 30 May 2010
A beautiful day in the French countryside. We were invited to dine at my ex-mother-in-law’s house an hour out of Lyon at Chatillon sur Chalaronne, a gorgeous village in the heart of Ain, near Les Dombes. There are many ponds in the area that nourish a he
Msieurdame
Sunday, 30 May 2010
I love the fact that people are so polite here. And you are thinking, ‘Hmm, what about that French sassiness we’ve heard so much about?’ Ying Yang, French people can be sassy and French people can be wonderful, warm and polite.It is an old world polite. When people walk into a doctor’s office, a bu
Avoir Mon Cher Oncle
Sunday, 30 May 2010
One of the dearest, most amazing, magical, beautiful people I have ever known passed away today after a nine-month struggle with cancer. Alvin Taylor, my uncle—or as he preferred to be called “Mon Cher Oncle”—was 58. Alvin loved France! He was a walking
George Sand
Sunday, 30 May 2010
This particular blog is in homage to my uncle Alvin who adores George Sand, taught me all about her and gave me her books to read. I love you, Alvin. In Indre, the heart of France, lies the home of the famous 19th century novelist George Sand. Her f
Gros Bisous!
Sunday, 30 May 2010
Bisou means kiss in English. Gros bisous means big kisses. The French are all up in their kisses. I love that! Men and women alike, when you greet a friend, you give them a kiss on each cheek—mwah, mwah! In some parts of France they greet one another with three bisous, in others four. Whew! Thank g
No GM Food!
Sunday, 30 May 2010
France voted not to grow Genetically Modified food. Halelujah! I can offer myself and my family healthy natural food. Thanks, France.À demain.Love, Charley
Escargots
Sunday, 30 May 2010
I love escargots. Delectable snails in the shell with loads and loads of butter, garlic, parsley and salt. After you have eaten the snails themselves, it is very important to take a thick slice of crusty French bread and mop up the buttery sauce. Last ni
Turkish Toilets!
Sunday, 30 May 2010
Okay, had to blog about these Turkish Toilets!! Every once in a while you come across these original water closets in restaurants and brasseries. I came across one in a restaurant today. They make me laugh, I love it.No joke! First of all, they’re pretty
La douceur des choses ...
Sunday, 30 May 2010
***Une jolie journée ......Dans la tendresse partagée, la douceur et la simplicité. ...Le Mistral a été bien élevé, il a soufflé juste comme il fallait, ni trop chaud, ni trop froid !...Sur la table du déjeuner, un délicieux bouquet de jardin... offert
Il était une fois ...
Penulis : Unknown on Thursday, 27 May 2010 | 11:57
Thursday, 27 May 2010
***A sa manière naïve et tendre mon amie C. peint la Provence ...... Provence idéale d'une fois, aux petits cabanons et à la nature préservée ......Ses jolies peintures sont autant de portes ouvertes sur nos souvenirs d'enfance, elle la fréjusienne, mo
Roman Ruins
Penulis : Unknown on Wednesday, 26 May 2010 | 07:52
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
I live in Lyon, France. Founded by the Romans in 43 BCE and dubbed “Lugdunum” (the hill of lights), the city was a communications hub for the Roman Empire. Consequently, you practically trip over Roman ruins! I love that!We have an enormous Roman Amphith
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