What is Pain d’Epices?
Christmas in France is all about food and at this time of year you see supermarket shelves and...
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Tag: Traditions
Ganses – Food for Carnival
It’s Carnival Time. Carnaval de Nice is in full flow which means, to put it bluntly,...
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What is le Réveillon?
Le réveillon is the evening before Christmas (Christmas Eve) and the evening before New Year’s Day...
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September – C’est la Rentrée!
September – c’est la rentrée! School’s back! If you have spent any time at all...
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Christmas Traditions in Provence
Christmas in Provence is full of traditions both ancient and new, religious and secular, making it...
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Transhumance, Autumn and a Hill-Top Village
Every year in early autumn in the Alps animals that have spent the summer grazing in high pastures...
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What is a Bûche de Noël?
The Christmas meal in France, eaten on the evening of the 24th of December, wouldn’t be complete...
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Sunday Photo – 11 December 2016
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How to Make Galette des Rois, Traditional Epiphany Cake
January is the month of la galette in France. La galette des rois, or King’s Cake, a flaky...
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Birthday Parties in France – And What Not To Do
I was drinking my coffee this morning in a reflective mood remembering this day 16 years ago when...
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Mid Summer Solstice and Fire!
I’ve written before about how June is the month of fêtes, full of festivities, festivals and...
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Orange Festival on the French Riviera – la Fête de l’Oranger
The Côte d’Azur and its surrounding countryside, in fact the whole of the département of the...
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