The Good Life France Newsletter – from Honfleur | EUROtoday

Welcome to The Good Life France Newsletter which this week involves you from Honfleur in Normandy.

I’ve been touring loads recently, Nancy (japanese France), Normandy, Paris, Lyon, Avignon and Provence, and I’ve received heaps extra journey arising together with the Christmas markets of Strasbourg, Colmar and Riquewihr, and the Christmas chateaux of the Loire Valley. But my subsequent cease can be Cognac and La Rochelle, include me through Instagram the place I’ll put up photographs and movies!

I’m engaged on heaps of articles for The Good Life France Magazine and web site, however I even have an concept for a e-book in regards to the 101 finest locations to go to in France, so plenty of analysis is required, I’ve a for much longer listing than I ought to have, and I’m whittling it down! I at all times love your options too, private suggestions are nice to have, so, in the event you’ve been someplace and liked it and it is prime of your should see in France listing – please be at liberty to hit reply and let me know!

Meanwhile at dwelling, my 7 cats and 4 canine are having fun with the somewhat mellow autumn we’re having. Bread Man, he delivers the bread to all of the little villages within the Seven Valleys the place I dwell, says he loves this season as a result of it is excellent for soup suppers with a crispy baguette, and for baking cheese with an enormous chunk of crusty nation loaf. He’s a born salesman – I wager you possibly can guess what we had for supper final week! Anyway I instructed him I really like this time of the yr as a result of it jogs my memory of Bonfire Night once I was a child.

“Bonfire Night. What is zis?” he mentioned

It’s a bit sophisticated however I gave him a potted model of how in Britain we celebrated a failed plot to explode the House of Lords and all in it, together with King James 1 of England on November 5, 1605.

Bread Man was astonished.

“Like a Bastille Day, but not a Bastille Day?”

I assume it was type of, besides that it did not contain that many individuals and it did not end in any main adjustments to how the nation was run. Well, the King’s “deliverance” was honored the subsequent November fifth, and some years later someplace in England, a city determined to make an effigy of 1 the ring leaders of the plot, one Guy Fawkes, and to burn it on a hearth . And tons of of years later we nonetheless have “Guy Fawkes night” or “bonfire night.”

When I used to be a child we celebrated with a bonfire within the backyard, let off fireworks and scoffed toffee apples (pomme d’amour, or love apples in French) and used to hawk a ‘Guy’ – an effigy across the streets and ask strangers for cash to fund the fireworks! Those have been the times!

Bread Man was utterly gobsmacked by this historic story, and has promised to make me some salted crème toffee apples for the day. He by no means misses a gross sales opp when one crops up and can be telling that story to his French prospects and wowing his British prospects with toffee apples the entire of subsequent week!

Kisses from a tiny village with an enormous coronary heart in the midst of nowhere France,

Janine
Editor

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Janine Marsh is Author of My Good Life in France: In Pursuit of the Rural Dream, My Four Seasons in France: A Year of the Good Life and Always France: Living the Dream in Rural France all obtainable as e-book, print & audio, on Amazon all over the place & all good bookshops on-line. Her new e-book How to be French – a celebration of the French way of life and artwork of residingis out now – a take a look at the French lifestyle.

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