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Le Festival des Soupes et des Pains (The Soup and Bread Festival) Montreuil-sur-Mer
It was the last Sunday in October and the clocks had gone back making us feel refreshed, and as we had time on our hands …
Le Touquet Christmas lights
Feeling a bit festive the week before Christmas, the team from The Good Life France took its own advice and visited Le Touquet to see …
Growing garlic in France
The French word for garlic is ail and its well known that the French are partial to a clove or two, particularly in the south of …
Franky’s Friterie – French fries folly
I came across a story on the web the other day about a 21 year old student in America who was so desperate for chips …
La fête de la dinde – The festival of the turkey
The Good Life France team had a bird’s eye view today as turkeys ran wild through the streets of Licques. Actually, running wild might not …
They say French people hate foreigners…
I have always found that the French are incredibly welcoming and warm people. We often read in the popular press that the French don’t like …
Planting by the moon
It was my neighbour Remy who first bought to my attention the unusual pursuit of planting by the moon. I wasn’t sure whether to take …
My French Life: Trumper the 200 year old sheep
When we bought our house several years ago, Roger, the old chap across the road used to keep his sheep in our garden which was …
Gardening in France
Until I moved to France, I never really thought of the French as being keen gardeners. It should have been obvious considering that when you’re …