Category Archives: French customs

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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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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Weekly Blogger Round-Up: Advantages of Paris in Winter – Surprising Things about Istanbul – Eating Rules for French Children

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Rosemary Kneipp

In this week’s Blogger Round Up, Carolyn from My Sydney Paris Life shares nine big reasons to love Paris in winter (even though it hasn’t snowed this year); Jo Karnaghan from Frugal First Class Traveler takes us to Istanbul in … Continue reading →

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Weekly Blogger Round-Up: Colmar in Alsace – Zadar in Croatia – Saint Valentine’s Day in Paris

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Rosemary Kneipp

In this week’s Blogger Round-Up, Carolyn from Holidays to Europe takes us to Colmar, which is one of my favourites places in Alsace, with its picturesque canals while Chasing the Donkey gives us an insider’s tour of Zadar in Croatia … Continue reading →

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President Hollande’s Marianne

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Rosemary Kneipp

If you read my post last week on green stamps, you may have noticed the drawing on the stamps. When I saw it, I was somewhat intrigued because the previous Marianne stamp was a little different. So I checked it … Continue reading →

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Weekly Blogger Round-Up: Overalls for women now legal in France – Great party trick

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Rosemary Kneipp

This week’s Blogger Round-Up is a spin-off from my post on the disappearance of père de famille. Bellanda from Bellanda in Paris tweeted a post explaining that women are now legally allowed to wear overalls in France, while Tim from … Continue reading →

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Green Stamps

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Rosemary Kneipp

I’m in Nogent sur Marne on the other side of Paris because even after living for 8 years in the Palais Royal, I still go to the dentist I found 15 years ago when I opened my office in Nogent. … Continue reading →

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My Fève Collection

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Rosemary Kneipp

This is a photo of my fève collection from the galette des rois. You can click on it to see the fèves in more detail. You can see that some come from the same bakery (the two see-through carafes, the … Continue reading →

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Weekly Blogger Round-Up: Renovating a château – Visiting Southern Italy – No pants in the Paris metro

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Rosemary Kneipp

Welcome to this week’s Blogger Round-Up. Three posts caught my eye immediately this week. The first, by Janine Marsh from The Good Life France, tells the story of an Australian couple who have bought a château in the south of … Continue reading →

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Photo of the Week – Galette & Crackers

Posted on January 12, 2014 by Rosemary Kneipp

We were invited by our neighbours for a galette des rois. Liliane and Alain had bought two types – one with almond filling (frangipane) and one with apple filling just in case we didn’t like frangipane. I took along some … Continue reading →

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