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. [...]
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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 »
Tune in to Radio Oh La La!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Blog08, Cesar et ses Romains, French music, French music podcasts, French music sites, Gainsbourg, Natasha Cloutier, Oh La La, Radio Oh La La on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As you may or may not realise, things have been a bit quiet around Frenchified of late. You can blame the Dutch for that. I won a competition to go to Blog08, a bloggers’ conference in Amsterdam, through vowing to wear Big, Wooden, Netherlandish clogs all day long if I won. Apparently, that was funny, so [...]
A brief pause in Frenchified posts…
Posted in Uncategorized on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just to let you know that I have hundreds of things to post about concerning the Frenchified world, but a bloggers’ competition has come between me and abundant posting time. I entered the competition to win a ticket to Blog08 and Essential Travel threw in the flights and travel insurance, so later this week I [...]
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 [...]
Petit Nicolas
Posted in French books, French films, French kids, French politics, Uncategorized, tagged Amazon.fr, children's books, French children's books, French political humour, French president, Goscinny, Histoires Inedites du Petit Nicolas, Jean-Jacques Sempe, Laurent Tirard, Melissa Rossi, Petit Nicolas, Petit Nicolas Sarkozy, Petit Nicolas's friends, Rene Goscinny, Sempe, The Armchair Diplomat on Europe, Valerie Lemercier on August 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The first proper French book I ever read was a little orange paperback of Petit Nicolas stories. I was twelve or thirteen at the time, but to this day I love dipping into the tales of this lovable little rogue, who talks about ‘heaps and heaps’ (‘des tas et des tas’) of things, frequently escalates [...]
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 [...]
A Tale of Two Mexicans in Paris
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Mexican food, Mexican restaurants, Mexican restaurants Paris, Paris on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘When in Rome, do as the Romans do’, or so they say, but what about ‘when in Paris, eat as the Mexicans do’? Deciding to turn our backs on canard and moules and other typical French fare, Monsieur and I felt like dining on something different. That’s how we came to experience two very different [...]
