Blog in France

So what have French people been eating over Christmas? In our household we’ve stuck firmly to an English Christmas. During our fourteen years in Ireland we never crumbled either. We never made the adaptation to having ham as well as turkey at Christmas, or salted cod or spiced beef in...

The French really know how to do breakfasts. They manage to get huge amounts of chocolate into this one meal. The majority of breakfast cereals on the shelf in the supermarket have chocolate in them. I’ve just had a look at Auchan’s online shop for home deliveries (not in our...

I took part in my first conseil de classe – class council - last night at Ruadhri’s lycée. I was in the conseil d’école for Rors’ primary school for a couple of years a while ago, but didn’t feel I was contributing anything in particular and so didn’t get involved...

I’m sure you must have heard about the rioting that’s been going on in Paris this weekend. The perpetrators are the Gilets Jaunes, which the UK news programmes are translating as ‘yellow vests’, although ‘yellow waistcoats’ is more accurate. Under French law drivers have to carry a fluorescent yellow safety...

When is an expiry date not an expiry date? I’m on my third driving licence. My first, British one was issued in 1979 and had the expiry date of my 70th birthday in 2032. At the time that was in the inconceivably far distant future. Now it’s rather closer than...