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The top two pictures are of the Strasbourg Christmas Market which is one of the biggest and oldest in the world. People from all over come to see it.
The last picture is of a typical French Christmas window full of goodies. All retail windows are decked out in beautiful Christmas cheer throughout France this time [...]

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The snow looked scary enough at first coming down in huge beautiful flakes covering everything in a thin blanket. However, it was all a front and nothing is left to show for it except for these pictures I took.
So, here are some pictures from my french window of the second snow fall of the year. [...]

Thank you, Mom and Trav, for sending me a little bit of home for the holidays!
I made chili soup like back home for dinner tonight. My brother sent me Brooks brand chili beans in the can and some chili powder back in the summer and my mother sent me saltine crackers with the girls Christmas [...]

Prescription drugs the “French” way:
As you can see from this picture the pharmacist has HANDWRITTEN the dosage instructions on each box. Inside each of these boxes is a paper listing all the warnings and possible side effects and is provided by the drug manufacturer. Simple, to say the least.
While living in America it kinda went [...]

I want to thank the person that left me the comment below. You were just the warm breeze this girl needed to dry off quickly from my tumble out of my canoe! Thank you.
I started blogging to have a “window” to the world outside my private life in France as an expat. Sometimes, I feel [...]

I am having some personal problems and have decided to stop blogging for a while.
I don’t know if it will be a week or month. But, right this moment I want to concentrate on myself and my children.
There are lots of great blogs by fab people out there about France and other countries. [...]

Yeahhhhhh! Christmas is here and that means….ICE CREAM!
Not just any ol’ ice cream. I am talkin about buche de Noel. Buche de Noel is basically an icecream log. As you can see from the pics it is shaped like a log with bits of chocolate on top. The inside is usually three different [...]

A PRENDRE OU A LAISSER
I am addicted to this French game show! It is the perfect show to watch while cleaning up the living room each night. You know, the usual mess. One thousand and one puzzle pieces and plastic clothes pins that my mother-in-law gave the girls dumped all over the floor like booby [...]

Avallon, France is a medieval city with seven flanking towers still standing out of the remains of anceint fortifications.
The Romanesque church of St-Lazare is dated back to the 12th century. It is said that in 1000 the church received the head of St. Lazare making it a pilgrimage site. The church has two [...]