Eiffel Tower for Sale?

November 21, 2016

No, not really. But a part of its staircase is up for auction tomorrow. This morning as I was perusing the …

Wine in Montmartre

October 11, 2016

There’s a vineyard in Paris! In my backyard… no kidding. This weekend was the Fêtes des Vendanges in Montmartre. (Montmartre Grape …

August 9, 2016

I recently wrote a post about the book Provence 1970, a book that I adored and through which I spent my reading …

July 19, 2016

I’d heard about the Festival d’Avignon for years – three weeks of theater in the south of France. Theater in …

June 21, 2016

In the early 1980s, the French Minister of Culture, Jack Lang, created La fête de la Musique. Since that first …

June 13, 2016

I’m not a sports fan, but the sheer number of jerseys I saw today and the huge road parties made …

May 20, 2016

The chef is not, unsurprisingly, me… We recently spent a week with a chef at the Ile de Ré. This chef, …

May 2, 2016

Or is it Sant Jordi… Last weekend I was down in Perpignan, way down in the south-west of France …

April 20, 2016

I knew going into this adventure that the eating habits I was used to back home in North America were …

April 9, 2016

Some exciting news: Becoming Madame is Becoming Maman (!!), and that explains, along with the full time job, much of …