Cemeteries are busy on this day of remembrance and chrysanthemums are on sale on every street. Don’t offer them to your hostess when invited out for dinner! They are for the dead
Some French Halloween vocabulary…and some really bad French Halloween jokes.
Sometimes it’s easier to stay with an unsatisfactory bank, than to research and change to a different one, particularly if you have several accounts. It could be out of the frying pan…
In 2012, Albert Camus, Nobel prize winner and author of some of the greats of French literature, went under scrutiny for a photo in which he was smoking a cigarette.
Wonderful walk with views of Le Massif de Canigou. Very interesting industrial and cultural heritage.
Are you assiduous?
Have you tasted syrup of pine cone à la Canigou yet?
Did you know that the word ‘saunter’ may originate from the French ‘à la sainte terre’ ?
Did you know that “La Marseillaise”, France’s national anthem, was actually composed in Strasbourg in 1792, not in Marseilles as we might assume?
A walk to Port Vendres from Banyuls involving a 10 minute bus ride for 1Euro .