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Christmas in France is all about food and at this time of year you see supermarket shelves and...
Read Moreby Phoebe Thomas | Dec 21, 2020 | Food & Drink | 12
Christmas in France is all about food and at this time of year you see supermarket shelves and...
Read Moreby Phoebe Thomas | Feb 17, 2020 | Food & Drink | 26
It’s Carnival Time. Carnaval de Nice is in full flow which means, to put it bluntly,...
Read Moreby Phoebe Thomas | Dec 4, 2019 | French Culture & Traditions | 19
Le réveillon is the evening before Christmas (Christmas Eve) and the evening before New Year’s Day...
Read Moreby Phoebe Thomas | Aug 28, 2019 | French Culture & Traditions | 66
September – c’est la rentrée! School’s back! If you have spent any time at all...
Read Moreby Phoebe Thomas | Dec 5, 2017 | French Culture & Traditions | 27
Christmas in Provence is full of traditions both ancient and new, religious and secular, making it...
Read Moreby Phoebe Thomas | Oct 17, 2017 | Annual local events | 55
Every year in early autumn in the Alps animals that have spent the summer grazing in high pastures...
Read Moreby Phoebe Thomas | Dec 16, 2016 | French Culture & Traditions | 54
The Christmas meal in France, eaten on the evening of the 24th of December, wouldn’t be complete...
Read Moreby Phoebe Thomas | Dec 10, 2016 | Provence-Côte d'Azur | 28
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Read Moreby Phoebe Thomas | Jan 6, 2016 | Featured, Food & Drink | 57
January is the month of la galette in France. La galette des rois, or King’s Cake, a flaky...
Read Moreby Phoebe Thomas | Sep 9, 2015 | Children/Family | 31
I was drinking my coffee this morning in a reflective mood remembering this day 16 years ago when...
Read Moreby Phoebe Thomas | Jun 30, 2015 | Annual local events | 15
I’ve written before about how June is the month of fêtes, full of festivities, festivals and...
Read Moreby Phoebe Thomas | Apr 8, 2015 | Annual local events | 54
The Côte d’Azur and its surrounding countryside, in fact the whole of the département of the...
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