BIENVENUE!

WELCOME TO OUR VILLAGE

Yes, we’ve uprooted our life and yes, we might be completely crazy! Here it is – the beautiful and the ugly of our family’s journey.

We hope some of our stories ignite just a little wanderlust in your life too!


This week’s French phrase: Les coquelicots

Paying homage to their Americanized name, these little beauties are popping up everywhere as summer arrives.  Otherwise known as common poppies, les coquelicots appear on the sides of the road, dotted along hiking trails, and as seas of red as you drive through Provence.  

Click here to see previous French phrases: Des petit cours de français


MES HISTOIRES HEBDOMADAIRES


  • Stabilité

    Stabilité

    Our immigration consultant asked me for evidence of “stabilité de votre résidence” and I had to chuckle.  Obviously, proof of residential…

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  • Des nuages

    Des nuages

    Joni Mitchell is other-worldly – a goddess of poetics, melody, and musical range.  A few in history have shared talent…

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  • Le premier givre sur le Piste de Marbrière

    Le premier givre sur le Piste de Marbrière

    Almost snow-like, but not quite. Dazzling field of jewels laid delicately on each leaf.A slight crunch with each step I…

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  • Changement des saisons

    Changement des saisons

    We are officially in fall here in Mougins.  The chilled air bears headier scents, musky and dank.  The colorful leaves…

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  • Pas de sel

    Pas de sel

    Our little troop has found itself in Italy this week for the Toussaint holiday – delightful Florence and tantalizing Venice…

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  • Changement de perspective

    Changement de perspective

    When I was a child, I used to hang my head off the couch and watch my mother talk to…

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