Category: My French Life

I’ve told you about the first three animals we got – Winston the stray kitten, Churchill the Doberman Pinscher who turned out to be a ...

Okay – I know this isn’t remotely French but I just couldn’t resist sharing it with you. One of my dreams when we moved here ...

This is a strange but absolutely true story as told to me by Remy, my neighbour who knows everything and everyone in our area and ...

It never ceases to amaze me that the country that has given us foie gras, coq au vin, profiteroles and champagne has taken to McDonalds ...

On Sunday 19/2 I made my way to Dunkerque in the Nord-Pas de Calais region to see what the Carnaval de Dunkerque (Dunkirk Carnival) was ...

For some time now, me and the other half have been taking bee pollen! When I say taking it, I don’t mean pinching it out ...

Not much happens in our little village and my life in France is tranquil on the whole.  However J-P, my neighbour and font of all ...

There’s a little town near where I live called Berck-sur-Mer. Its a lovely little seaside resort in Pas-de-Calais, glorious beaches, never overcrowded even in the ...

Over the past couple of decades I’ve been all over France and it’s fair to say that this is a country of immense variety in ...

France has its fair share of crackpots and loonies going head to head with those of a more serious nature when it comes to Presidential ...