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How to make friends in France | Entente Cordiale
“When I move to France I only want to have French friends”. This was a line in an email I received from a couple of …
How Christmas is done in my part of France
Getting into the Christmas swing of things takes a while in rural France. Last year, with just over a week to go to the big …
Reviews for My Good Life in France by Janine Marsh
When Lesley O’Mara of Michael O’Mara publishers in London emailed me to ask if I’d be interested in having my story published, I leapt at …
Reasons to love France No 5 | Paris
“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it …
My Good Life in France by Janine Marsh | Coming to America
An email popped into my in box from my publishers the other day “You’re going to America”… Well they didn’t mean me exactly, they meant …
Chicken Tales | A cat among the chickens
Sometimes I find more in the chicken pen than I expect. A while back I found a duckling, two hedgehogs and a cat… Ok, a …
Renovating a house in France can be a never ending job
More than a decade after buying this old farmhouse to renovate in France, I was starting to think that at long last it may one …
Chicken Tales | Summer lovin’ in the chicken pen
Summer in the Seven Valleys, Pas de Calais where I live in France is wonderful. We have plenty of blue sky days, the air is …
Reasons to love France | No. 3 French People
When I started this weekly series, reasons to love France, I had lots of ideas in mind. I decided to share a few on Facebook …
Reasons to Love France No. 2 | French Cheese
There’s something about the cheeses of France that seduces and entices all cheese lovers. It doesn’t matter that other countries produce delicious cheeses, more cheeses, …