The Christmas season is fast approaching and with it some beautiful lights displays. We select for you some of the best Christmas lights displays in France this year. 1- Aix-en-Provence 2- Montpellier 3- Nimes 4- Strasbourg 5- Toulouse 6- Paris 7- Clermont-Ferrand 8- Colmar 9- Bordeaux 10- Montbelliard → Like to learn French and have fun doing…
When I visit family and friends in Bordeaux, canelés are often offered and served with dark coffee or desert wine. I’m actually not leaving town without a box of those little pastry treats. I love everything about them: their little squat fluted column shapes, their caramelised crusts and their delicious custardy interior with vanilla and rum! The ingredients are very…
On aime et on partage! We love and we share! Our two favourite artists/band singing together the beautiful song “Jimmy”.
Bonjour! We are please to announced that our new stock from France has just arrived and available in our boutique, French collective. For this upcoming season, our heritage from the South of France is our inspiration. Our purpose is to bring you some authentic and original products. We have vivid memories of our childhood helping our grand-mother…
France cultural and natural diversity is amazing. I’ve traveled and visited a lots of places in France but there are still so many I would love to see or revisit. Since I live in Australia, I don’t have the opportunity to go back as often as I wish but at every trip back home, I make…
This classic French biscuit is perfect with a cup of tea or coffee or for your kids’ snacks. You can find a lot of recipes on the net, with or without butter, with honey, chocolate, lemon or vanilla. As for me, I will follow my grand-mother recipe with butter and lemon. Easy and quick to bake, it…
Travel one day in the Pays-Basque in this beautiful 5min video, from La Rhune mountains to the rolling green hills, beautiful valleys, picturesque ports and villages.
Une rencontre/ Quantum love (2014-France) Storyline: a family man’s (Francois Cluzet) encounter with a beautiful woman (Sophie Marceau) develops into a mutual fascination / La rencontre d’un bon père de famille avec une femme magnifique va se transformer en une mutuelle attraction. We saw Quantum Love recently and loved it. We saw many movies with the same typical romantic…
Last week-end, French people have witnessed a combination of incredible astronomical events. The 20th of March, a total Sun eclipse greeted the Spring Equinox, visible from everywhere in France. Then on the 21st, thousands gathered along the French coast to witness the “tides of the century” with tidal coefficients of 119 (this event actually occurs every 18 years). The…
J’adore les time lapse et notre coup de coeur aujourdh’ui revient a cette video magnifique, regroupant les principaux sites UNESCO et les plus beaux villages de notre beau Sud-Ouest de la France. We love timelapse and our “coup de coeur” goes today to this wonderful video, a compilation of World Heritage UNESCO sites and most beautiful…
