Communicating with French people can be tricky. I should know that—after all, I used to be one of them.
Browsing Category France – Summer 2017
Puzzled by Traditional French Food and Eating Habits
I swear that when I was a kid, there weren’t twenty kinds of galettes bretonnes in supermarkets and that blood sausage wasn’t an exciting thing to share around the BBQ.
Street Urinals in France – gross or Practical?
Feng and I were taking a late-night walk and the group of friends in front of us had just noticed something apparently “gross” in the side street they had just passed.
Saint-Michel X 11
Last week, it was just my parents, my brother and the three of us in the family house by the seaside. This long weekend, there are 11 of us.
Along The Loire River
The one- or two-hour walk feels like an accelerated history lesson or a sociological snapshot of Nantes.
How to Handle a Terrifying Splinter Situation
“Oh, Juliette… he got a splinter.”
“No worries, I’m on it. Mark…?”
“NNNNNOOO! NOOOO! DON’T TOUCH IT! DOOOOON’T!”