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Visiting so many family members in France means visiting so many different houses. It’s fun to see how the women decorate, and even to snoop in their closets. Greg’s cousins have some fabulous French clothing!! All of the houses have been interesting to me so I thought I’d write a few lines about each one. Here’s a brief description from the top: Rose and Pierre in Sammeron
An old Farm house, approximately 100 years old, situated on fields of wheat, barely, corn, rye and rapeseed. Farmers are highly

Read more... | Published: 08/07/08

Eddie Van Halen, Eat Your Heart Out.

Greg and I went out on the town for some music gratuite last night. We saw an amazing performance in St. Brieuc, Brittany by Maya Barsony. I highly recommend finding their album. Music Description: Electro-funk-French-reggae-rock ????

Okay ladies, I am reporting on how ultra cool this French woman is. There’s a difference I noticed, to an American cool chick, and a French cool chick. They’ve got their sexy DOWN. And their sexy is different from our

Read more... | Published: 08/03/08

Honest to Goodness!

Yesterday I went to the bathroom at the beach. First of all there all these little huts that look like they are bathrooms but they are not, they are just cute changing rooms that you can rent to change your clothes in. I find this extremely odd, since in France topless bathing is the norm. Why on earth would a changing room be necessary? Speaking of topless bathing, the first time the kids were swimming at a water park, I thought it bizarre that

Read more... | Published: 08/02/08

The city of Tours

It was St. Anne’s day and being raised in a good Catholic family, I have no idea what on earth that means. Except that in Tours, a lovely medieval city in the Loire Valley, an annual garlic and basil festival is held.



At the festival, aside from a few stalls with women’s clothing, there was (of course) mainly food. The kids were complaining until they realized they could taste all kinds

Read more... | Published: 08/01/08