Author Archives: Rosemary Kneipp

Friday’s French – se rappeler, se souvenir, mémoire, souvenir

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Rosemary Kneipp

Se rappeler and se souvenir are almost complete synonyms. I can’t really think of any occasion on which one can’t replace the other.  However, there is a grammatical difference which fewer and fewer people observe these days. Se rappeler takes … Continue reading →

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Weekly Blogger Round-Up: Visiting Lisbon – Parliament House in Budapest – Being Polite in French

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Rosemary Kneipp

This week’s Blogger Round-Up takes us to Lisbon in Portugal with Jenny and John in Brittany, a place that is definitely on my shortlist while Adelina from Pack Me To visits the inside of the Parliament Building in Budapest which … Continue reading →

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An Orchid Exhibition and our Perfect New Neighbours

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Rosemary Kneipp

I was delighted when I discovered we had orchids in our garden in Blois. I had thought they were strictly tropical plants but it turns out that France has quite a large number of wild orchids and our region alone … Continue reading →

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Photos of the Week – Blois in early spring

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Rosemary Kneipp

 

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Friday’s French – mondain, mundane & banal

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Rosemary Kneipp

“She’s very mundane”, a bilingual French-English speaker said to me recently, obviously thinking that mundane means the same thing as mondain. To start off with, in English, we wouldn’t use mundane to describe a person, but rather something more abstract … Continue reading →

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Weekly Blogger Round-Up: Carnival time in Nice – The Bay of Angels in Nice – Van Loos’ The Three Graces

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Rosemary Kneipp

This week’s Blogger Round-Up starts in the city of Nice on the French Riviera with Phoebe from Lou Messugo who shares her stunning photos of Nice Carnival. And to give you another view of Nice, Margo Lestz, writing for The … Continue reading →

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Early Spring and Ponderings on our New Life

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Rosemary Kneipp

It’s been the strangest winter. I don’t think the temperature has gone below zero more than a couple of times and there has been absolutely no sign of snow. As a result, spring seems to have come a couple of … Continue reading →

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Travel Photos – Vendôme

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Rosemary Kneipp

Considering the number of canals that run through it, I’m surprised that the mediaeval town of Vendôme on the Loir River (not the same as the Loire), 35 k from Blois, is not called the Little Venice of Beauce after … Continue reading →

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Friday’s French – se promener, marcher

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Rosemary Kneipp

Anglosaxons do a lot of walking – well, at least in theory! We walk to the bakery. We go for a little walk. We walk in the country. We do a 10 kilometer walk. We take the dog for a walk. … Continue reading →

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The Saffron Fair in Preuilly sur Claise

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Rosemary Kneipp

It’s our second day in Blois and Susan and Simon from Days on the Claise have invited us to their local saffron fair. I know next to nothing about saffron except that it comes from the pistils ofcrocuses. Even that’s … Continue reading →

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