For French Fridays this week, somethng a little different… I was recently interviewed about buying property in Nérac for Living France magazine (click to open a PDF of the article). Paola, the journalist compiled the information she wasn’t able to use into an interview piece and she’s kindly allowed me to share a version of […]
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French Fridays: Gascony, the other South of France
Those of you who have been following along on this blog for a while now will know that Neil and I own a house in France that we rent as a vacation rental property. I’ve written before about why we chose the town in the South West (Nérac) that we did and it seems incredible […]
French Fridays: Saturday morning market in Nérac
I’m en route home via a couple of days in Toulouse (eh oui, the holidays are coming to an end – there is work to resume in a few weeks and, well, a cookbook to write!) so for French Fridays today I wanted to share something that’s been a big part of my summer. At […]
Summer in France: Nérac night market
It’s July 14th. Bastille Day as it’s known outside France. And I’m sure there will be parties and fireworks and good food and wine. It’s the French way – always but especially in the summer. One of the things I love the most about France is the festive nature of the summer – from the […]
French Fridays: March Break, French style…
You might have noticed a few less posts that usual over the past two weeks. I’ve been in France with my mum over March Break and whilst I had every good intention of sharing more posts over this time, well, life sort of got in the way of that and I decided to give myself […]
French Fridays: our house in France
Those of you who were reading here in the summer of 2014 might remember that we came back from France with a bigger-than-usual souvenir, a house! No, it’s not one of those “we fell in love with it and bought it on the spot” stories – I challenge anyone to purchase a house spontaneously in […]
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