Like many French adventures, it started at the train station. Unlike many French adventures, it didn’t involve some weird train story—strike, ghost train, missed connection or other typical public transportation drama.
Browsing Category France – Summer 2020
Rings and Bananas (There Are No Easy Answers)
France is a minefield this summer—there are no easy answers to Mark’s hundreds of not-so-innocuous questions.
We’re Living Strange Moments, There’s No Story (Because Uncertainties)
I can’t take anything for granted anymore—school, work, the ability to move freely from place to place or to see loved ones whenever I want. Everyone around me feels the same.
French Atlantic Coast vs. 2020 Heat (and COVID) Wave
French 17th-century apartments don’t come with air con and it gets really stuffy in Nantes, even on the Loire River shore.
Strange Things French Say: “Oh Shit, Forgot The Bread!”
Yes, all that for bread, “and you buy it every day and every city has it!” like Mark says. Welcome to France, where bread matters.
Where Would You Rather “Hide” During The COVID-19 Pandemic?
Canada is a good place to live and work. I like it too.
But deep down, I still feel safer in France.