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Rebel France IV

April 27, 2009 – 11:11 pm | 15 Comments | 9 Read this
Rebel France IV

Walls are talk­ing in France! Here is the sec­ond part of my French graffitis.

Rebel France III

April 25, 2009 – 10:51 pm | 10 Comments | 10 Read this
Rebel France III

Walls are talk­ing in France!

What I Miss From France... And What I Don't!

April 23, 2009 – 12:56 pm | 26 Comments | 26 Read this
What I Miss From France... And What I Don't!

There are French things I miss, like the cof­fee cul­ture and his­toric cities. But then, I think about the down­sides: stu­pid shop hours, dodg­ing dog poo, the bureaucracy…

French Cuisine

April 21, 2009 – 7:42 am | 17 Comments | 22 Read this
French Cuisine

French food, from crêpes to quiches!

French Pastries

April 19, 2009 – 5:41 pm | 12 Comments | 20 Read this
French Pastries

There are “pâtis­series” and “boulan­geries” every­where, the first ones spe­cial­iz­ing in cakes and elab­o­rate pas­tries, the sec­ond ones offer­ing many kinds of bread and basic bak­ery products.

Ah, Paris! (2/2)

April 17, 2009 – 5:13 pm | 15 Comments | 5 Read this
Ah, Paris! (2/2)

And here is the sec­ond part of our adven­tures in Paris.

Ah, Paris! (1/2)

April 15, 2009 – 7:29 am | 17 Comments | 9 Read this
Ah, Paris! (1/2)

Ah Paris! In the spring, the city is quite nice actually.

Purchasing Power Blues In France

April 11, 2009 – 3:01 pm | 15 Comments | 38 Read this
Purchasing Power Blues In France

C’est la crise, madame!”, you can hear every­where when vis­it­ing France.

Historic Nantes

April 9, 2009 – 11:33 am | 14 Comments | 10 Read this
Historic Nantes

Nantes was pretty lucky dur­ing World War II: unlike a lot of French cities, it wasn’t totally destroyed by bombings.

Bourgeoise Nantes

April 7, 2009 – 7:18 pm | 12 Comments | 8 Read this
Bourgeoise Nantes

Class strug­gle is still omnipresent in France. Because pol­i­tics is a national pas­time, peo­ple like to describe them­selves as “à droite” (right-wing), “à gauche” (left-wing), “soixante-huitard” (a per­son who either par­tic­i­pated in the May 1968 Move­ment or has Utopian ideas) etc.