Question #1: Le Beaujolais Nouveau is: A) the third Thursday of November B) really mediocre red wine C) a trick the French play on the rest of the world D) a party at the kid’s school Wong – the answer is…all of the above, let me explain. A) The third Thursday in November has been…

La Grande Chartreuse {pt. II} We continued on, along the winding road that shadowed the river at the bottom of the gorge until we got to the grounds of the museum and had our pic-nic. It should be noted that a French grocery store is a great palce to get everything that you need to…

La Grande Chartreuse  {pt. I} The colour chartreuse  takes it’s name from the Chartreuse liquor, which is made by the Carthusian monks, who are so named because St Bruno started the order in the Chartreuse mountains about 900 years ago. Well those mountains just so happen to be just across the valley from us – so last…

The colour chartreuse  takes it’s name from the Chartreuse liquor, which is made by the Carthusian monks, who are so named because St Bruno started the order in the Chartreuse mountains about 900 years ago. Well those mountains just so happen to be just across the valley from us – so last week we decided to have…

La fête de la Saint–Martin On Friday I was looking through the kids cahier jaunes (yellow notebooks – it’s the way you communicate between parents & teacher/school) and noticed a little insert from the village for “La Fete de la St Martin” hmm.  Seeing as he is the namesake of our village – therein lies an opportunity for…

New Chez Nous Just wanted to get a quick post up (using ‘borrowed’ WiFi) to let everyone know that we are indeed alive, and have in fact moved into our new place.  We still don’t have internet/phone at home (since moving on Oct 25) – but a technician from France Telecom was out on Wednesday –…