Bonjour! I hope that you simply and yours are properly.
Spring is in full swing right here in France, wisteria is blooming in every single place, from Paris streets to Claude Monet’s backyard in Giverny, from Strasbourg to Cannes, in gardens and parks, alongside gates and hedges, over bridges and historical buildings. There’s nothing that claims spring fairly like a little bit of wisteria hysteria in France!
My job – which I really feel actually privileged and blessed to have – is principally to discover France! I goal to write down about and share with you the key locations, the well-known locations, meals, wine, historical past and tradition and extra. My journey 12 months began within the spring, and to this point I’ve been to Burgundy, Beaujolais, Marseille and Cassis. Final week I used to be in Toulouse and the Ariège area – a most secret a part of France – and I stayed on the superb Chateau de Gudanes the place I’ve to inform you I’ve left a bit of little bit of my coronary heart. It’s like a fairy story fortress come to life, albeit with an enormous quantity of dedication and really, very exhausting work by Karina Waters and her household who’re preserving and restoring it (you’ll be able to see some pictures right here on Instagram, and hearken to my podcast interview with Karina right here).
Subsequent week I’m off to analysis among the medieval and historic wonders of France – Paris, Fontainebleau, Provins – a medieval jewel of a village, Barbizon and Sens in Burgundy. After which I’m off to Rouen for the extraordinary Armada occasion that takes place solely each 4 years with tall ships from all over the world docking in historic Rouen (8-18 June 2023). I’ll even be sleeping aboard a tall ship for an evening! I’ve had a whole lot of requests from folks wanting to affix me on this journey – properly you’ll be able to – on Instagram!
And I’ll after all be writing about all of my discoveries in The Good Life France Journal which is completely free to learn on-line and subscribe to.
In between travelling I’m serving to Bread Man, he delivers the bread to my village, he not fabricated from it, with a brand new cake recipe. Extra to come back on that one, I take my tasting duties very significantly! Watch this house for a really particular recipe.
Wishing you a really bon weekend from a bit of nook of rural northern France from me and my canine, cats, chickens, geese and geese!
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Bisous from my little nook of France,
Janine
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Janine Marsh is Creator of My Good Life in France: In Pursuit of the Rural Dream, My 4 Seasons in France: A 12 months of the Good Life and Toujours la France: Residing the Dream in Rural France all obtainable as book, print & audio, on Amazon in every single place & all good bookshops on-line.
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