I’m an outlaw, not a hero is Honey Dugan’s blog about life in Thoiry in the Rhone Alpes.
Honey is an American living in France with her husband, Dan, who is a scientist and does something incomprehensible with photons or protons or Higgs Boson Particles or… something like that!
Honey is rather a fan of Baseball which, in it’s own way, is equally incomprehensible to me!
The blog starts in January 2010 with Honey just married to the aforementioned Frenchman and still living in Philadelphia.
From that first post, it is only a few weeks and maybe 6 or 7 posts before the blog really takes off with the post about The Ferney-Voltaire Saturday Market.
She likes her markets, doesn’t she?
Well, she certainly seems to.
Honey thoughtfully gives as a French Word of the Day:Marché where she explains, in photos and words her obsession.
And “Espionage! Espionage! Espionage!” is all about being caught red-handed whilst taking photos as the market. This post does include the obligatory, for a Life in France blog, photo of A Monkfish with a lemon in its mouth!
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365 things that i love about France is the blog of Charley Appenzellar who, having lived here for eight years has, for the last three months, been writing lots of nice things about France.
Obviously, she hasn’t been watching the footie (because there really wasn’t anything nice to be said about that, was there?) but, we’ll not mention that sordid and disgraceful affair here!
So, why did she create her blog “365 things that I love about France”?
She answers this as follows….
“One: I wanted to challenge myself to find something positive in my life every single day for one entire year.
Two: I love, love, love living in France. More often than not, I wake up and say to myself, “Self, you are one lucky girl!”
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It’s All Downhill From Here is the blog of someone called misplacedperson.
I really do wonder about parents who call their kids funny names like that – must be all down to too many drugs in the seventies?
Anyway misplacedperson seems to have survived even if she does describe herself as a (in her own words)….
“waster and a layabout. I have failed to make any sensible use of my expensive university education, neglected to produce grandchildren to delight my parents’ old age and at the same time continue not to set the world on fire in any way which might justify these shortcomings.
On the plus side, I can speak French (sort of), ski and snowboard (ditto), cook (not too badly really) and I have finally more or less got to grips with the art of indulging in social interaction without being called ‘abrasive’. Scraping the barrel here, I know, but it’s the best I can muster.
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BurkinaMom in France is Beth’s blog about her life in the Haute-Savoie.
Beth relocated to the Haute Savoie with her four kids, two cats, one husband and all their worldly belongings from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, West Africa.
And that, I believe, shows a load more cool factor than emigrating to France from Bognor or Basingstoke!
I must admit to liking blogs that have a Septic Tank Category!
Perhaps I’m weird but, when a blog has a special category for Septic Tanks, you know that there’s going to be something interesting coming up sooner or later.
Or coming down?
Something interesting like a flood of sewage?
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Still in Lyon, I decided to pop in and have a look at Postcards from my blue house.
Now, this is rather a strange blog.
Not strange in terms of searching for A Little Sax in Paris (see this post…. Paris through my lens) or strange for talking about mice condoms (that subject is aptly covered by An American Mom in Paris) – no, this blog is just a little bit strange in its layout.
Or, perhaps, unique would be a better word?
Once you get your head round it, it works very well.
Now, postcards from my blue house is pretty much an out and out photo blog.
So, it’s only right that the photos tell the story.
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C’est la vie! is Jonathan and Kari’s blog about their lives in Lyon and their travels.
The ups and downs of Kari and Jonathan’s lives are described in posts such as… Worst haircut ever… and 10 reasons why we love France.
Although, in that last post, I’m not sure that Tartiflette is only ranked as No4?
Surely it should take the top spot and second place as well?
Or, is that just my belly talking?
Kari also has a wonderful recipes site at bon appétit where she supplies over 400 recipes (including the one for wonderful tartiflette!)
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I’ll start my review of Piglet in France with a look at the first post that caught my eye… Scoop the poop!
Almost as funny as the post were the comments.
Then again, I do have to say… once you start counting the poop (how many poos per metre); from there it’s only a short squat to foaming at the mouth, accosting strangers, wearing tatty cardigans and drinking Gold Label straight from the bottle.
I don’t think that Piglet in France has to worry about that (although I haven’t checked her cardigan collection), her blog shows that she’s still a fair way from the funny farm.
And that’s not to say that this isn’t a funny blog!
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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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Food, food, food, glorious food…..
Oops, where was I? Oh yes, I was supposed to be reviewing A Taste of Savoie and well, I sort of got carried away!
So, let me get back to work. A Taste of Savoie is Sarah’s blog about her life in a small village in Savoie, in the French Alps.
The posts on this blog range from the all encompassing… Rabbit Stew, Fidel Castro and Ice Cream to the intriguingly titled Is that a wallet in your pocket or are you…..
I had to laugh about Sarah’s travails with her goats; Guilty m’lud and The Goat Trial. You really shouldn’t try to milk a male goat! And, come to think of it, what a novel use for a prophylactic!
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Soupe de Jour is Penny’s blog about her life in Annecy with her husband, two children and a rather old cat.
To call the blog wide ranging is a bit like saying that “Johnny Hallyday can sing a bit!”
Soupe de Jour ranges from articles about A Few of my Favourite Vampire Things to The Purse Snatcher.
Most of the posts, however, are more down to earth and detail the day to day events that Penny wants to talk about.
There is, for example, a very interesting post about La Fête de Caïon which contains the classic sentence… “A birdseye view of the blood sausage makers from our bedroom window.” As one of the comments suggests… Only in France!
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Lucy’s Kitchen Notebook is unreservedly, un-apologetically and totally…. all about food!
Sure there’s some day to day stuff about Lucy’s baby but, even then, the posts tend to focus on what the baby is eating!
There is a great introduction to this blog at… Introduction but I’ll try to summarise the best I can.
Lucy Vanel is an American expatriate living in Lyon. She learned to cook in the French style from the books of Julia Child.
She met her French husband in North Carolina, of all places. As she explains… At a local restaurant one night, she noticed he was dining by himself. “I invited him to join our table; I knew what it was like to eat alone in a foreign country.”
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Le Franco Phoney is April Hollands’ blog about her life in the Rhône Alpes.
April is an Australian who loves (according to her About page), Snow-based activities (skiing, snowboarding, telemarking etc.); writing; learning new stuff every week; photography; music.
She admits to also quite liking Cow-watching; cheese; chocolate; chatting to strangers in English or French (if they can put up with my bad French); swimming and not liking… Glossy magazines (terrible content); gossip; olives; techno music; intolerance (unless related to techno music etc.); double standards (apart from my double standard about intolerance).
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Rhône-Alpes | Keith Eckstein July 29, 2010 | 
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