Welcome to The Good Life France E-newsletter which this week involves you from Honfleur in Normandy.
I’ve been travelling lots recently, Nancy (japanese France), Normandy, Paris, Lyon, Avignon and Provence, and I’ve bought heaps extra journey developing together with the Christmas markets of Strasbourg, Colmar and Riquewihr, and the Christmas chateaux of the Loire Valley. However my subsequent cease will likely be Cognac and La Rochelle, include me by way of Instagram the place I’ll put up images and movies!
I’m engaged on heaps of articles for The Good Life France Journal and web site, however I even have an concept for a guide in regards to the 101 finest locations to go to in France, so a number of analysis is required, I’ve a for much longer checklist than I ought to have, and I’m whittling it down! I all the time love your solutions too, private suggestions are nice to have, so, in the event you’ve been someplace and liked it and it’s prime of your should see in France checklist – please be at liberty to hit reply and let me know!
In the meantime at house, my 7 cats and 4 canine are having fun with the somewhat mellow autumn we’re having. Bread Man, he delivers the bread to all of the little villages within the Seven Valleys the place I reside, says he loves this season as a result of it’s excellent for soup suppers with a crispy baguette, and for baking cheese with a giant chunk of crusty nation loaf. He’s a born salesman – I guess you’ll be able to guess what we had for supper final week! Anyway I advised him I like this time of the 12 months as a result of it jogs my memory of Bonfire Evening after I was a child.
“Bonfire Evening. What’s zis?” he stated
It’s a bit sophisticated however I gave him a potted model of how in Britain we have fun a failed plot to explode the Home of Lords and all in it, together with King James 1 of England on November 5, 1605.
Bread Man was astonished.
“Like a Bastille Day, however not a Bastille Day?”
I assume it was form of, besides that it didn’t contain that many individuals and it didn’t lead to any main adjustments to how the nation was run. Properly, the King’s “deliverance” was honoured the following November fifth, and some years later someplace in England, a city determined to make an effigy of 1 the ring leaders of the plot, one Man Fawkes, and to burn it on a hearth. And a whole bunch of years later we nonetheless have “Man Fawkes evening” or “bonfire evening.”
Once I was a child we celebrated with a bonfire within the backyard, let off fireworks and scoffed toffee apples (pomme d’amour, or love apples in French) and used to hawk a ‘Man’ – an effigy across the streets and ask strangers for cash to fund the fireworks! These had been the times!
Bread Man was fully gobsmacked by this historic story, and has promised to make me some salted crème toffee apples for the day. He by no means misses a gross sales opp when one crops up and will likely be telling that story to his French prospects and wowing his British prospects with toffee apples the entire of subsequent week!
Bisous from a tiny village with a giant coronary heart in the course of nowhere 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 Yr of the Good Life and Toujours la France: Dwelling the Dream in Rural France all obtainable as e book, print & audio, on Amazon in every single place & all good bookshops on-line. Her new guide Tips on how to be French – a celebration of the French way of life and artwork de vivre, is out now – a take a look at the French lifestyle.
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