Bonjour
I hope that you just and yours are nicely.
I’m sending you this text from sunny Aix-en-Provence the place I’m working laborious to enhance my French on a weeklong course – and what a superb place to be taught, great markets, superb structure, café way of life, museums, nice gastronomy – this metropolis is spectacular!
I’ve been chilling at dwelling for a number of months, however my journey itinerary is now packed for the months forward. Subsequent, I’m off to Angers within the Loire, then the Var within the south of France, Excursions within the Loire, southern Drome, then Normandy, Paris, Antibes and Aix once more (for an additional language course), then Sancerre and Bourges within the Loire, Charente-Maritime and Cognac! You might be welcome to include me by way of Instagram the place I’ll be posting movies and pictures as I am going!
The day earlier than I headed to Aix, I nipped down the hill outdoors our home and up the hill previous the little chapel on the opposite aspect of the village, to test in on Mr and Mrs Pepperpot, two of my favorite neighbours. That’s not their actual identify in fact, that’s what I name them in my head as they’re each very petite. They’re additionally fairly historic, and the nicest individuals, beneficiant natured and like to share tales of the previous days within the village, just like the time again within the ‘60’s when our farmhouse had a room constructed on the aspect to deal with a phone for the usage of the villagers – the signal remains to be there!
Mrs Pepperpot is an exceedingly good cook dinner – she makes the whole lot from scratch daily, all seasonal, native and recent elements. She ushered me into the kitchen, and the aroma of simply baked sugar tart was heavenly, a form of candy buttery brioche topped with oodles of sugar. I meant to remain for ten minutes, simply to say hi there, inform them I’d be again in a few weeks but when they wanted something Mark, (my husband) was there taking care of all our animals.
As so usually occurs, Mrs Pepperpot insisted I’ve a espresso, then I will need to have a slice of sugar cake to go along with it as we sat and chatted. Then all of the sudden it was l’heure d’apéro – time for an apéritif – and naturally we will’t have a glass of wine with out some nibbles, and I need to name Mark to hitch us – and a few hours later, we helped put the pepperpots’ cows to mattress within the barn and made our method dwelling because the solar started to dip behind the highest of Mont Cauldron within the distance. Generally it looks like time passes so rapidly we hardly have time to assume, so many distractions, a lot dangerous information, however at moments like this, time appears to decelerate as you relish the seemingly small issues of day by day life that the French name artwork de vivre, the artwork of the great life, cherishing moments spent with buddies, relishing a sluggish glass of wine, noticing the setting solar and appreciating nature – that point is really priceless.
I want you a bon weekend and lots of moments of artwork de vivre,
Wishing you a really joyful April Idiot’s Day and Easter from the center of nowhere, northern France,
Bisous
Janine
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