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Category: My French Life

Last week I was invited to a neighbour’s house for drinks. I don’t know the neighbour so well, or at least I didn’t before last

Today is 11 November, 2014. It is Armistice Day and commemorates the signing, after four long years of dreadfulness, of a pact that ended hostilities

Halloween in France is becoming a more popular event, probably thanks to American TV Shows, many of which are very keenly followed here in France.

Did you know that in France the designated driver is called “Sam”? I was at a Champagne House, oh how I love to casually drop

I woke up early this morning as usual – the cockerel across the road was singing away at the first hint of light, which in

People say I’m always going on about how wonderful France is. They say “there must be something you don’t like” and there is. Nowhere is

After I wrote recently about moving to France someone emailed me to ask what so different here in Pas de Calais, northern France from living

This week in my little French village, my neighbour asked me if I could feed her animals while she was away overnight. “Of course” I

Last week someone sent me a message, it read: “Good life in France, ‘you must be joking’ they don’t like the Brits. Get real.” It

How to have your cake and eat it…How do French women stay so slim? One of the things I am often asked is “How come