I moved to rural Charente in 2016 with high school French, Google Translate, and the kind of optimism that only survives the first trip to the prefecture. I was 44 then, and I’m nearly 55 now. My French is functional, sometimes better than functional, and I still get caught out by the subjunctive on a…
If you’ve flown into France recently, you’ll have no doubt experienced some annoyingly long delays. The reason isn’t ETIAS, despite what a lot of people are saying. ETIAS hasn’t actually launched yet. The real culprit is EES, the European Union’s new biometric Entry/Exit System, which completed its full rollout across France and the rest of…
French food is fabulous, no argument from me there, but part of what makes it great are the stories behind the dishes. Discovering how some of these came into being, and the subsequent festivals that celebrate them, is part of what makes France a culinary adventure. And, of course, the best way to understand it…
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