After a quick coffee and pastry in our French rental home in Les Assions, we were on our way. We planned on doing a little hiking in the Cévennes while the sun was out but what was meant to be a quickie 7km hike before lunch turned out to be more like the S.S. […]
Honest Food Tales – Tim
Peaches and Cream in Paris Ah Paris! What an amazing city. Vibrant and diverse with a seemingly endless offering of culture, art, history and food. We have been lucky enough to visit Paris a few times now, even meeting up with family to endlessly walk the arrondissements until we collapsed from exhaustion. Fanning a pile […]
A World of Cookies – PFEFFERNUSSE
Tradition Christmas and the holidays are filled with tradition. Every year around this time our home overflows with smells of Scottish shortbread and French butter cookies. This year we changed it up a bit and added a few others to our regular mix, Middle Eastern date & almond triangles and German pfeffernüsse. Pfeffernüsse There are […]
Lille’s Garden of Giants – BEST BANANA BREAD EVER
Jardin des Géants The Garden of Giants in Lille France covers about 2 hectares and includes more than 45 thousand types of plants. Created in 2009 by Mutabilis Landscape Architecture the gardens include water features and metal structures and sculptures. It also has a small cafe to grab a bite and a drink or in […]
La Coulée Verte – NAVETTES DE ST-VICTOR
The original Before the Highline in New York and the Bloomingdale Line in Chicago, there was La Promenade Plantée. The elevated and landscaped, Parisian escape in the city. Starting east of the Bastille and ending with a spiral staircase 4.7km away, La Promenade Plantée aka La Coulée Verte is an oasis in the city. We […]
Wheels Fit For A King or Queen
Roulez carrosses! While in Arras we decided to check out a pretty cool exhibit called Roulez carrosses! at the Abbaye Saint-Vaast. The carriage museum at Versailles closed to the public ten years ago, this is the first occasion that the carriages have been loaned out for an exhibition. They are on display here until November 2013 so if you’re […]
20 Meters Underground
Screaming and gunfire When the doors closed behind us we knew we were in for an unforgettable experience. We could hear screaming and gunfire accompanied by images of horror flashing in front of our eyes. Then the lights came on and we were herded into the elevator. As we descended farther and farther, it got […]
You Ate 1098 Meals in 2012
If you eat 3 meals a day, that means you ate 1098 meals in 2012. How many of those meals were memorable? Certainly not 1098, how about 500? 100? Could you name a dozen? Looking through photos helped us remember some of our most memorable meals (and snacks) of 2012. You won’t find anything resembling […]