This sign hangs outside a Chambres d’Hôte or B&B on the Ile de Ré. What I love most about this is the name:
La Maison du puits sans fond
Roughly translated, that means The House of the Bottomless Well. It sounds like a fairy story waiting to be written. Sadly, when you look up a dictionary definition, [...]
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I could eat a horse! (and often do…)
Posted in France, France in photos, French Holidays, French food, French shops, Made in France, Travel, Uncategorized, tagged Boucherie Chevaline, Fontenay-le-Comte, France, French food, French food shops, French shops, Horse butcher, Horse meat, Vietnamese food on August 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This is a photo of a horse-butcher’s shop in Fontenay-le-Comte. I simply had to take a photo. Monsieur didn’t get it, but he didn’t grow up in a country where eating horse would be like eating the family dog. Kiwis just wouldn’t ever consider it. Because of that, for me, seeing horse butchers is half novelty [...]
Sunflowers/ Les Tournesols
Posted in Art in France, France, France in photos, French Holidays, Travel, Vendee, tagged art at auction, fields of sunflowers, flowers, France, les tournesols, sunflowers, Travel, Vendee, Vincent Van Gogh on August 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Whenever I see a sunflower, I think of Vincent Van Gogh, that mad (not in a good way) Dutch painter whose dauby impressionist works depicting vases of these yellow flowers have a habit of giving the auction world a nervous twitch whenever one comes up for sale. Van Gogh painted the sunflower series when he [...]
French tees for les enfants…
Posted in France, France in photos, French chic, French fashion, French kids, French souvenirs, Travel, tagged Absorba, Bonpoint, children's clothing, children's tee shirts, French children's clothing, French mode, French souvenirs, French Tees for les enfants, Grasse, la Tranche sur Mer, Petit Bateau, souvenir tee shirts, tacky souvenirs on August 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On Epicurienne I have made no secret of my dislike of children’s souvenir tees which say stupid things like “My Mom went to Vegas and all she bought me was this lousy tee-shirt”. (Honestly, people really do waste their money on silly things, but then they’re probably the same people who eat at McDonald’s in [...]
Winter Grasse
Posted in France, France in photos, French Holidays, French food, Restaurants - France, tagged France, Travel, Grasse, Cannes, Cafe Arnaud, South of France, Salade Nicoise, Salade Perigourdine, Grasse market, Mory Kante, slow restaurant service, Place aux Aires, Longchamps, perfume, duck, Grasse shopping, foie gras, lavender, Nativity scene, Winter animal fair - Grasse on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Monsieur and I were in Cannes for New Year but soon decided to leave the heaving Croisette for a little trip elsewhere. In our efforts to do just that we drove stop-start through the labyrinthine streets of France’s answer to Tinseltown trying to find a way out. This took a while but a U-turn and [...]
Institut de Beaute – La Rochelle
Posted in France, France in photos, French Holidays, French chic, Travel, Uncategorized, tagged Beautician, Beauty shop, France, France in photos, French beauty, French grooming, Institut de Beaute, La Rochelle on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This beauty shop in La Rochelle stopped me in my tracks because of the painting hanging in its window. Apologies for not being able to lose more of the reflection on the glass, but if you look closely, you’ll see three topless old women smiling back at you. A better advertisement for booking an appointment [...]
