Bonjour,
I hope that you just and yours are effectively and that you just had a cheerful Christmas and a superb begin to the New 12 months.
Final 12 months appeared to essentially whizz previous! It was a blended bag for me to be trustworthy, as I believe it was for many people, however I solely share the great with you right here, a bit little bit of escapism!
I’m not huge on new 12 months’s resolutions – usually, however I do have three huge targets for 2026. One is to essentially enhance my French, I did effectively final 12 months doing on-line classes with a extremely nice trainer. I’m lastly beginning to familiarize yourself with the ghastly grammar and horrible tenses which I’ve largely ignored for years. And this 12 months I’ll be doing an immersion course in Aix-en-Provence with one other nice trainer to essentially up my sport, and I determine I’ll as effectively be someplace sunny and totally beautiful! For those who’re seeking to enhance your French on an immersion course, be happy to affix me, I’ll be sharing my favorite locations in Aix with the remainder of the ‘class’!
And I’m going to grasp the artwork of cooking – effectively tarts and pastries! For a few years my neighbours and associates have laboured to show me the fundamentals of French delicacies. I used to be reluctant to start out with, I by no means thought I’d handle to make a macaron, or bake a bûche de Noël . However – I’ve. And I’ve develop into a little bit of a eager cake maker. So, I’ve signed as much as do two on-line baking programs – choux pastry delights and legendary tarts, with the most effective of the most effective – grasp cooks from the École Ducasse, the cookery college based by the world’s most Michelin Starred chef, Alain Ducasse. The teachings are in English and there’s an awesome low cost for those who join earlier than 26 January.
And at last, the podcast is coming again, I’ve had heaps of emails telling me how a lot it’s been missed, and I’ve actually missed chatting to everybody too – so watch this house and join the podcast publication to by no means miss an episode.
No matter your targets are for subsequent 12 months I want you enjoyable and success with them.
I’ll be again subsequent week with a story of rural life in a unusual a part of France the place we’ve had heaps of snow to welcome within the new 12 months, and I look ahead to sharing one other 12 months of the most effective of France with you,
Bisous from a small however by no means boring village in Pas-de-Calais,
Janine
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PS Be a part of me on Instagram the place I’ll be beginning a brand new A-Z of France subsequent week, images, enjoyable and interesting details and movies from my travels round France…
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