Starting the brand new 12 months with desires from France | EUROtoday

Good morning,

I hope that you simply and yours are nicely and that you simply had a cheerful Christmas and a superb begin to the New Year.

Last 12 months appeared to actually whizz previous! It was a combined bag for me to be trustworthy, as I suspected it was for many people, however I solely share the nice with you right here, a bit little bit of escapism!

I’m not huge on new 12 months’s resolutions – usually, however I do have three huge targets for 2026. One is to actually enhance my French, I did nicely final 12 months doing on-line classes with a extremely nice instructor. I’m lastly beginning to become familiar with the ghastly grammar and horrible tenses which I’ve largely ignored for years. And this 12 months I’ll be doing an immersion course in Aix-en-Provence with one other nice instructor to actually up my sport, and I determine I’ll as nicely be someplace sunny and completely beautiful! If you are seeking to enhance your French on an immersion course, be happy to hitch me, I’ll be sharing my favourite locations in Aix with the remainder of the ‘class’!

And I’m going to grasp the artwork of cooking – nicely tarts and pastries! For a few years my neighbors and associates have labored to show me the fundamentals of French delicacies. I used to be reluctant to start out with, I by no means thought I’d handle to make a macaron, or bake a Yule log. Purpose – I’ve. And I’ve turn out to be a little bit of a eager cake maker. So, I’ve signed as much as do two on-line baking programs – choux pastry delights and legendary tarts, with one of the best of one of the best – grasp cooks from the École Ducasse, the cookery college based by the world’s most Michelin Starred chef, Alain Ducasse. The classes are in English and there is a nice low cost if you happen to join earlier than 26 January.

And lastly, the podcast is coming again, I’ve had heaps of emails telling me how a lot it has been missed, and I’ve actually missed chatting to everybody too – so watch this area and join the podcast e-newsletter to by no means miss an episode.

Whatever your targets are for subsequent 12 months I want you enjoyable and success with them.

I’ll be again subsequent week with a story of rural life in a unusual a part of France the place we have had heaps of snow to welcome within the new 12 months, and I stay up for sharing one other 12 months of one of the best of France with you,

Kisses from a small however by no means uninteresting village in Pas-de-Calais,
Janine
Editor

PS Join me on Instagram the place I’ll be beginning a brand new AZ of France subsequent week, pictures, enjoyable and interesting details and movies from my travels round France…

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