Moment of silence
This morning the city of Carcassonne held a memorial service to remember all of the innocent people killed in last night’s attacks in Paris. We join them in that moment of silence. Continue reading Moment of silence
Year: 2015
Running on empty
We went to Trader Joe’s® today and I’ll let you guess why based on the accompanying photo. You may recall that we’ve been “shopping from the pantry” trying to use up all of the food that we still have stored on the shelves. That policy applies to the wine cellar as well and it would appear that we’ve done a really good job of clearing the shelves down there! If you’ve been to our house you know that these wine racks are typically full just in case a hurricane hits Atlanta and it’s unsafe to drink the water. Continue reading “Running on empty”
Bill’s new friend
If you know Bill, you’ll know how easily he meets people. At the end of the street where we rented a house recently in Carcassonne there’s a bar/restaurant called Formule 1 with a race car theme. I’ll just let this photo tell the rest of the story. He’s going to learn French REALLY fast! Continue reading Bill’s new friend
Café culture
Paris boasts thousands of cafés. Bill and I have visited the City of Light several times and I can recall only once, when friends from London popped over to visit us for the day (“My love, why don’t we go see the boys in Paris for lunch”) did we actually sit down to enjoy a glass of wine and watch the world go by on … Continue reading Café culture
Now you see us…
Did you ever see the movie The Forgotten or one of the similar stories where the main character grieves a dead relative but no one else seems to remember this person ever existing? Even the photographs of the family have a mysterious gap where someone’s smiling face might have been. That’s how I felt today when looking at Google maps. Continue reading “Now you see us…”
Lucky shot?
We got a message of congratulations over the weekend from WordPress, the company that hosts this blog. It said “Your stats are booming! Let’s Live in France is getting lots of traffic.” You were probably part of that frenzy, so thank you. It started when Bill posted on both the blog and Facebook that we were clearing out the basement with lots of things going to charity or the dumpster if they weren’t otherwise claimed. The response was overwhelming, so now there’s much less to give/throw away, but there’s still more….
Go towards the light
The house that we’ve rented for our first year in France was advertised as une petite maison which can translate as a little house or even a cottage. What I have yet to discover is a French word that means “home” in the sense that we normally use it as being a warm and welcoming place. That certainly is not to say that it doesn’t exist considering how welcome we have always felt there and the fact that their culture values friendship to the point that they have divided it into seven levels. We just have to keep looking. Continue reading “Go towards the light”
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