• Le Tour

    The Tour de France finished yesterday and we’re bereft! Every night we’ve been watching an hour-long highlights programme on ITV4. It wasn’t the most fantastic coverage, as it tends to focus in on the last ten kilometres or so which it showed in one go, rather than show snippets of...


  • Le petit déjeuner

    The French really know how to do breakfasts. They manage to get huge amounts of chocolate into it. The majority of breakfast cereals on the shelf in the supermarket have chocolate in them. Our favourite has three different sorts! Hot chocolate is the thing to drink first thing in the...


  • All hail

    Twice in the last few weeks we’ve had a ferocious hailstorm. The most recent one was the worst. I was convinced the skylights were going to break. The noise was incredible. Once the worst was over, we went outside to check the llamas, and found ourselves crunching over walnut sized...


  • Bienvenue

    I'm the least hairy one Bienvenue chez mon blog ! Hi, I’m Stephanie and I’ve been living in France for three very eventful and interesting years now. I have various bits of blog dotted around on assorted websites, but it’s time to get everything seriously together into one blog about life in...