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French Windows: The Vercors
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Sunday, October 20, 2013. My little blue car chugs valiantly upwards on the winding road to the Vercors mountains. Even with the accelerator pressed to the floor, she will not go any faster than 60km an hour. The line of impatient motorists behind me is getting longer and I have to pull into a lay-by twice to let them pass. I have not ventured into the Vercors for years. The first time was when we arrived in Grenoble in 2001. I was excited at the prospect of tasting the local AOC cheese:. 8211; a sweet, ...
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French Windows: July 2013
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Sunday, July 07, 2013. A Tale of Two Châteaux. It was such a beautiful day yesterday, but very hot. I decided I needed a walk in the forest and found an itinerary that started an ended at a. But first I had to walk to the. In Eybens, about four kilometres away. Napoleon stopped here in 1815, on his way from Laffrey where he had confronted the King’s army and come out of it rather well. It is said that on arriving in Eybens, he was offered a footbath by an old woman,. La mère Simiand,. Century by, claims ...
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French Windows: August 2012
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Sunday, August 26, 2012. I’ve just spent a wonderful week squished into a tiny caravan in the Pyrénées, at a lakeside campsite in Matemale. We walked in the mountains in the mornings, fizzed in the Jacuzzi and sweated in the sauna in the afternoons and gazed at the stars at night. We climbed high peaks, paddled in icy lakes, shivered in dark caves. We saw forest fires. Whispered to wild horses. And we searched our souls. Ah, yes. It was perfect. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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French Windows: July 2014
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Monday, July 21, 2014. Stereotypes may or may not be true: the stiff upper-lip of the British, the discipline of the Germans, the excitability of the Italians and…the grumpiness of the French. To be honest, I only know a handful of proper. 8211; complainers. Most of the French people I meet are delightfully easy-going. Nevertheless, this stereotype has come in very handy as an excuse for my own grumpy-miserable-feeling-sorry-for-myself state of mind. It’s all rubbed off on me, see? It’s all about h.
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French Windows: In perspective
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Monday, July 21, 2014. Stereotypes may or may not be true: the stiff upper-lip of the British, the discipline of the Germans, the excitability of the Italians and…the grumpiness of the French. To be honest, I only know a handful of proper. 8211; complainers. Most of the French people I meet are delightfully easy-going. Nevertheless, this stereotype has come in very handy as an excuse for my own grumpy-miserable-feeling-sorry-for-myself state of mind. It’s all rubbed off on me, see? It’s all about h.
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French Windows: A Tale of Two Châteaux
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Sunday, July 07, 2013. A Tale of Two Châteaux. It was such a beautiful day yesterday, but very hot. I decided I needed a walk in the forest and found an itinerary that started an ended at a. But first I had to walk to the. In Eybens, about four kilometres away. Napoleon stopped here in 1815, on his way from Laffrey where he had confronted the King’s army and come out of it rather well. It is said that on arriving in Eybens, he was offered a footbath by an old woman,. La mère Simiand,. Century by, claims ...
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French Windows: January 2013
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Saturday, January 26, 2013. Kicking up a raquette. If you’ve read this. You will know I am not a great fan of winter sports. However, I am an open-minded type of gal so when someone suggested I try snowshoeing, I gamely agreed. I imagined it to be a sedate activity with no chance of careering down a mountainside in a wildly out-of-control fashion, screaming, as I tend to do whilst skiing. The French word for snowshoes is. Because they resembled the. Or racquets of the. The French brought the. So I set of...
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French Windows: June 2015
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Sunday, June 21, 2015. There are so many things to celebrate today that I’ve copped out and decided to spend this sunny afternoon lolling on the sofa. There’s only so much merry-making I can stomach before I get a panic attack. First off is La Fête des Pères. Every single child managed to produce a delightful shirt-shape, with a collar and sleeves and everything. I produced a wrinkly sea monster with one leg and an atrophied head. Well, I didn’t put origami on my CV so what do they expect? Finally, it...
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French Windows: November 2012
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012. I am quite unable to resist the charm of the Pyrenees…. I used to think that if you’d seen one mountain, you’d seen them all – just some big pointy bits of rock covered in snow and blocking the view. But when I went walking last summer in the. I fell in love…. So I returned during the Toussaint holidays, not squished into a tiny caravan this time but installed in a cosy and horrendously over-furnished flat in Les Angles. 8230;and beyond, the glorious Pyrenees…. 8230;and to Les...
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