Monthly Archives: May 2011

Car boot sales

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Saturday, May 28, 2011

In Britain they’re known as ‘car-boot sales’, in the US as ‘garage sales’, but in France as vide greniers (literally: emtpy-attics).  In all cases the formula is pretty much the same – people gather somwhere to sell all the junk they don’t want for a knock-down price. These are not to be confused with brocantes (antiques [...]


Tous les Soleils

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Friday, May 20, 2011

I am very slowly closing in on ‘integrating’ into French society.  It has taken five years to get to a point where I no longer feel awkward in a French speaking environment (and am finally ‘DELF‘ qualified!); although I am still unsure as how to greet certain people I have no hang-ups about kissing the [...]


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