• Le Beaujolais Nouveau

    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…

  • Le Beaujolais Nouveau

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…