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The Folly of French Kissing {giveaway winner}
Congratulations to Kristen who was lucky number 54, and since 54 was the number randomly generated by random.org, she’s the winner of a copy of Carla McKay’s, The Folly of French Kissing. In other news I’m absolutely wrecked. I’ve been traipsing about Avignon, Gordes, Forcalquier market, and Cassis and I’m in desperate need of a nap but…
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guest post: tales from the chambre de bonne
Je voudrais présenter Mademoiselle Ella Coquine. Ella lives in Paris and is the author of tales from the chambre de bonne, one of my absolute must reads (there is simply no one as delightful as Ella). And since Ella has such a way with words, a certain, je ne sais quoi, if you will, there is no…
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guest post: the boot
Salut mes amies! Today I’m in Avignon, touring the Palais des Papes and the Pont d’Avignon. But while I’m walking the cobbled streets of the medieval, walled city, I’d like you to take a trip to Barletta, Italy with my friend Marissa from The Boot. FYI: sometimes when I read Marissa’s posts, it feels like…
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staycation, all I ever wanted
My staycation commences in t-minus nine hours. In t-minus nine hours, my mother and Godmother arrive at the TGV station in Aix-en-Provence. Road trips have been planned, hotels booked, and restaurants reserved (and thanks to la fête nationale des restaurants that’s taking place next week, we’re eating at some of these restaurants, buy one get one…
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The Folly of French Kissing {review + giveaway}
{buy me} … and I can tell you that they detest the Parisian’s far, far more than you. -The Folly of French Kissing While reading Carla McKay’s mysterious and delightful romp through British expat life and intrigues in the south of France, The Folly of French Kissing, I came across countless lines that could have…
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let me tell you about my morning
{Mrs.London’s, Napoleon, in Fifty’s superhero hand-me-downs} Yesterday morning that is. It started at 5:30. I was awake and felt refreshed so I thought, OK, I guess I just go ahead and get up. As walked into the kitchen I spotted an empty juice carton on the counter. Unhappy thoughts started racing through my mind. Unhappy…
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la mia vita
{me in Madrid, about a million years ago} Hey you! Guess what? I’m not here today. OK, I’m here obviously because I’m typing this but I’m also over at Nicole’s blog, La Mia Vita, filling in while she gets settled into her new digs in Madrid. By the way, Madrid is one of my absolute…
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fluffy nonsense
Coucou mes amies! How are you this morning?(It’s morning as I type this, 6:55am if you want to be exact about it, so I’m saying morning but feel free to change ‘morning’ to afternoon, or evening if that better suits you and your timezone.) There isn’t much happening in The LPV at the moment, like…
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Harry Potter Saves the Day
source Yesterday, Papa, his wife, Brother-in-Law, Child Bride, and La Petite, left for their annual family holiday to Corsica. They’ve been going to the same island holiday home there for years and years. It’s more like an annual pilgrimage than a holiday, it’s serious stuff Corsica is. The thing is this, The Husband has never…
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à la rentrée
{going home} La rentrée: the return of students to school, workers to the office, and tourists back to their homes after the summer holidays, signalling the beginning of Fall. Well it’s official, I’ve lost that summer feeling. Today is September 1st and with that nasty heat wave finally broken (I wore jeans yesterday… gasp!), Autumn…
It's Me, Sara Louise 