Blog in France

It’s time to tell you about Serge le lama. Not Serge Lama, the French singer, but his four-legged camelid namesake who is currently far more popular. On Halloween night, five lads reeled out of a nightclub in Bordeaux and happened to pass a circus on their way home. And who did...

I’m always happy to hear from fellow expats anywhere in the world here at Blog in France. Today I’m delighted to welcome Paul Douglas Lovell as guest blogger to share his experiences with learning his new country’s language.     I have been living in Switzerland for 13 years and if a local...

We had a recent outing to the volcanoes of the Auvergne. We’d been intending to go for ages but various obstacles kept presenting themselves. However, finally, the way was clear. So Chris, Caiti, Rors, Nessie the dog and I set off to climb the Puy de Vache. Quite near the start...

At the open day at the arboretum at Sédelles that we visited recently, I picked up an intriguing leaflet about pomology (the science and study of apples). The sociéte pomologique du Berry was having a fête des pommes (Apple Fair) the last weekend in October. Well, you should know by...

It’s very easy to make sweeping generalisations about countries. Way back in 2nd or 3rd year of secondary school, our geography teacher assured us that all Danish people were bad-tempered because it was always windy in Denmark. I believed that firmly until Chris went off to work there for a year just after we were...