Even before I moved to France, some seven years ago, I used to avidly read blogs by people who had already made the move. In a way, it’s what prompted me to start my own blog, BretonDiary.com
I still read other people’s blogs and here, at a Taste of Garlic, I intend to review some of the best blogs about living in France. If you know of a blog that you think should be mentioned here (even if it is your own), please don’t hesitate to contact me at contact@aTasteOfGarlic.com
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Back to Paris for a look at Peter’s Paris. Now, I’m not sure if Paris actually belongs to Peter but he certainly does seem enamoured by the place.
Rather than hunt for the obligatory Citroen 2CV, mushroom and Lingerie posts that seem to be popping up everywhere on Life in France blogs these days, I took a look at the categories listing and picked a few articles out at random.
The first one I came across that tickled my fancy was Hemingway in Paris – “A moveable feast.” This is not a small post (but that’s understandable, bearing in mind the subject matter.)
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Every Tuesday I intend to do a quick review of some of the posts from the last week that have made me smile, made me chuckle or, even…. just made me think.
Some of these you may have seen yourselves.
And some of them you may have missed.
I don’t think of these in any competitive sense at all.
This isn’t a top-ten listing.
They’re merely the posts that have stuck in my head.
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Up the Garden Path is Jean’s blog about her, and her husband Max’s, efforts to cut their food bill by growing their own produce.
The blog starts with bold ambition In the beginning and continues through successes and failures (but I rather think far more of the former than the latter!) to This year’s pigs – Berkshire Blacks again!
Along the way we deal with subjects as titillating as Sex in the Greenhouse and My family and other vegetables.
The last post details storing garlic and potatoes and… sending 15 years old sons into sex shops.
I’ve checked thoroughly and there aren’t any posts about mushrooms, Citroen 2CVs or lingerie.
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A new blog, Cuisine de Provence is, none the less, a rather tasty experience.
I started with a nice warming dish of Lentil Stew to beat the Winter Blues (and very nice it was too!) and because I had read in another post that, they’d had Snow in Provence!
Perhaps I’m jealous but… it seems that every self respecting Life in Provence blog has an article about the snow.
It’s no news to us up here in the frozen North! We’ve still got left over snow from the winter of ‘63 (that were a cold ‘un alright – Marie-France, just up the lane, went to her outside lavvy for a widdle and, when she tried to pull the chain, her hand froze to it! It took us 3 months to thaw her out enough so that she could come back indoors!)
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Another day, another photoblog.
Like yesterday’s this one is also annotated in both French and English.
Chateaubriant Daily Photo is a clever mix of superb photos, each catagorised by a colour.
After 840 posts, it’s hard to choose ones that stand out; they really are all very good!
I suppose that if I were put up against a wall, with a firing squad at the ready and someone threatening to smash my Johnny Hallyday record collection, I would probably come up with the following posts that interested me and have provoked some thoughtful reflection….
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In both French and English, The Five of Us is a photoblog extraordinaire!
I like photoblogs anyway and this one stands out because it doesn’t try to be too arty and I appreciate the time taken to do the translation.
From wonderfully cheeky and well observed beauties such as My Neighbours are Resourceful, or Nuts!
To the thought provoking A Little Bit of Sky which sort of echoes through my mind asking questions such as “and what will you be doing when you’re sixty?”
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Still in the Rhône Alpes (electronically rather than physically, you understand), I decided to visit French Windows which, I learned, is Gigi’s blog.
Gigi claims (perhaps unfairly) to be a failed wife and poet, terrible teacher and unworthy mother of three beautiful teenage girls, who has lived in France for twenty years. She says that her blog consists of glimpses of her life with a bit of culture thrown in.
Well, I polished my glasses and took a look around.
No corner went unobserved, no cubbly hole went unchecked.
I checked for dust on the top of the shelves, I had a good look behind the fridge!
The result…. plenty of life and a fair bit of culture too!
I’m not going to mention what I found behind the fridge, though!
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Video Diary of an American in France is Cynthia’s blog about her life in France.
Unlike many Americans, Cynthia never dreamed about living in France.
But as fate would have it, she fell in love with a Frenchman in 2005 who she met during a train ride in Provence and, after 2.5 years of a long distance relationship between Los Angeles and Chambery, she sold her house, ended her thriving and successful consulting business, and dragged her poor cats to Chambery in the Rhône Alpes.
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Tom Cupples’ Riviera Blog is the blog of, surprisingly enough, Tom Cupples, a Scotsman who lives in the wonderful village of Tourrettes Sur Loup 25 minutes inland from the hustle and bustle of the Cote d’Azur resorts of Nice and Cannes.
The postings range from The Logic of the French (where Tom attempts to work out how his son can get his moped to the test centre so that he can pass his test so that he can legally drive his moped on the road to the test centre….) Well, it’s probably better if you read that in Tom’s own words.
There is the obligatory post about The Difference Between Men and Women which is followed up with a tribute to Sir Bobby Robson.
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Now, I may be the world’s worst blogger (I think I hold the world record for being the world’s worst at the most things) but there are a few things that I have learned along the way.
And, as I got 28 blogs in front of me and can’t decide which of them to feature today, I thought I’d give up and pass on some of my hints and tips to you instead.
These tips are specific for bloggers who use Blogger (blogspot.com)….
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You know, I nearly didn’t review this blog and that would have been a real shame.
It was in my list of blogs to take a look at when I get a moment but, I thought it wouldn’t be my sort of thing.
Am I glad that I decided to have a quick browse of God, I love Paris!
The first post I saw was Move over Bacon
That was followed by The Meaty Side of Paris.
I drifted from that, in a trance, to Farm Fresh and by the time I got to Multi-course Madness I was, for want of a better phrase… Well and truly buggered!
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A Slice of ExPat(é) is Stu’s blog about his life with his wife Syb, their three children and Shelia (Syb’s mum.)
Stu (and family) run the Chantes des Oiseaux Gites and Campsite and A Slice of ExPat(é) is full of well thought out snippets taken from his life.
He writes intelligently about integration – take a look at… The Bistro Bus and Integrating Slowly.
The depth of Stu (and family’s) own integration can be seen by posts such as… Adieu Gérard Douaire. Notre ami, et bon voisin, Sad News and Just what is it with France?
By the way, the last post has a lovely picture of some lovely Parasol mushrooms – take a peek if it won’t spoil your dinner!
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