For a while now, Frenchified has been Stultified, i.e. on the back burner whilst I’ve been struggling with unprecedented workload and exhaustion. No longer. I miss writing about France, so I’m dusting off the blog and preparing to give it some renewed OOMPH. Thank you for being patient and if things are a bit quiet [...]
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The Return of Frenchified
Posted in Art in France, Famous places, Films set in France, France, French Holidays, Paris, Restaurants - France, Restaurants - Paris, Travel, tagged Centre Georges Pompidou, Epicurienne, film locations, France, Frenchified, Kate Hudson, le Divorce, Paris, Paris views, Pompidou Centre, Pompidou Centre restaurant, Restaurant with a view on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ice cream – Paradis sur Mer!
Posted in France, French Holidays, French beaches, French food, French shops, Made in France, Travel, Uncategorized, tagged arlequin ice cream, Fernch food, France, French beach resorts, French Holidays, French ice cream, ice cream merchandising, la guimauve, la Tranche sur Mer, lime ice cream, nutella ice cream, strawberry ice cream on November 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
La Tranche Sur Mer, on the Atlantic Coast of France, is one of those typically Euro beach destinations: lots of camping grounds, men who think it’s okay to terrify the female public by strutting around in a pair of form-revealing speedos, kids dragging giant inflatable animal-shaped float-aids along the street and lots and lots of ice cream shops. [...]
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 [...]
Brits in France – Michael Wright
Posted in Books about France - non fiction, Ex-pats in France, France, French stereotypes, Life in France, tagged C'est la Folie, Columns about life in France, English ex-pat in France, French animals, Jolibois, leaving London, Life in France, Michael Wright, moving to France, The Daily Telegraph on August 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
If you’re a weekend Telegraph reader, you’ve probably come across Michael Wright. He’s one of the many Brits who’ve up-sticks and crossed the Channel in search of a better life, subsiding his new farm-country existence by writing a weekly column called C’est La Folie. The column is the inspiration for one of the most entertaining [...]
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 [...]
Frenchified women
Posted in Books about France - non fiction, France, French chic, French diet, French fashion, French food, French stereotypes, tagged Debra Ollivier, diets, Entre Nous - A woman's guide to finding her inner Frenc, French diet, French lifestyle, French stereotypes, French style, French weight loss, French women, French women don't get fat, French women for all seasons, Frenchified Women, Japanese women don't get old or fat, lifestyle, Mediterranean Women stay slim too, Melissa Kelly, Mireille Guiliano, Naomi Moriyama on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a popular stereotype about French women that conjures images of slim, elegant pouty beauties who grace sidewalk cafés as they puff sexily on cigarettes and sip espressos. These women go everywhere in a garter belt and stockings, never chip a nail and wouldn’t be seen dead in a pair of trainers. It’s a beautiful [...]
La Venise Verte
Posted in France, French Holidays, Travel, Vendee, tagged Abbaye de Maillezais, Au Chant des Grenouilles restaurant, Boating in France, Boats, Charolais cows, France, French abbey, La Venise Verte, Maillezais, Marais Poitevin, row boats, Travel, Vendee on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Monsieur and I jetted off to La Rochelle recently for a long weekend in the Vendée region of France. The first couple of days were so suffocatingly hot that breathing felt like inhaling air directly from a fan heater, but then on the third day we awoke to grey skies, persistent rain and a drop in [...]
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 [...]
Paris, 75007
Posted in A Tale of Two Cities, Famous places, France, French Holidays, French food, Paris, Restaurants - Paris, Travel, tagged France, Paris, Eiffel Tower, confit de canard, Paris restaurants, Travel, French food, 7th arrondissement, Paris shopping, Paris 75007, rue Saint-Dominique, rue Saint-Dom, handbags, Saint Germain, Stock-Sacs, Champs de Fleurs, Champ de Mars, La Fontaine de Mars, l'Esprit du Sud-Ouest, Quai Branly, rue Cler, Cafe du Marche, La Tour Eiffel, La Maison du Jambon, les Invalides on August 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For a truly Parisian experience, I love to explore the area surrounding rue Saint-Dominique. The length of this shop-lined street running from Saint Germain, past les Invalides to the Champ de Mars, provides plenty of opportunity to fill up a suitcase without the challenge of the Big Avenue crowds and, if one suitcase proves insufficient, there are a couple of wonderful wholesale [...]
