Merry Christmas to all our family and friends around the world. We would like to share our Christmas with you. Please feel free to view the photo gallery. I added extra shots for you to enjoy. Our first friends showed up around 7:30 with their four kids. I envisioned feeding all the children first, while…
Since moving to southern France, we have pointed many tourists to the Canal du Midi for a relaxing bike ride along the shady tree covered path, where you make your own breeze on a hot summer’s day. Except one problem… I never did it before today! Another tick? off my 40 before 40 list,…
A vacation is what you take, when you can no longer take, what you’ve been taking. Earl Wilson It’s winter break! Two weeks in winter during the school year when the children go skiing. It is better known as ski break. Most families in France pack up their families to the Pyrenees or the Alps depending…
At three weeks before we move! Here are my thoughts…. (if too random, I apologise in advance…) I handed in my official resignation letter to Pierre Polard the mayor of Capestang as municipal councilor. He sent me a letter back thanking me for my time, friendship and contributions to the city of Capestang. He went on to say…
Lucky me, I get to meet some of the most innovative, fascinating people in the world, who choose to live their lives in southern France. They come from all walks of life, from many different countries, but somehow they manage to find their ingenuity to start business, an…
“Kill them all, God will know HIs own” The Abbot stated before the sack of Bezier where 20,000 were claimed dead. The Cathar or Albigensian Crusades were from 1209-1229, a military war started by Pope Innocent III to eliminate Cathars and heretics from the Langudoc region of southern France. Beziers is rich with Cathar…
To our family friend Christophe, ‘Happy Birthday to you!’ ‘Happy 10th Birthday to Sebastian too!’ After our friend’s wedding on Saturday afternoon, we joined Christophe and Beatrice for their family celebration! Christophe turned 50, their son turned 10 over the weekend, and they joined the parties together and rented out the Montels town hall where…
Lucky in the Languedoc of France Home and Garden Channel This was the TV promotions blurb about our family’s TV debut on House HUnters International. I cannot believe it was in 2012, but as the world turns, it looks like we will be doing another TV show about our move from Capestang France to…
Canal du Midi after the Planes? Sitting on an iron bench next to the Canal du Midi, I imagine myself talking to my great grand children about when we came to Capestang back in 2011. I’ll tell them how the Platane trees once domed tall above head as we walked down this very path. It…
Third Culture Kids (TCK) refers to children integrating aspects of their first culture and their new culture, creating a unique “third culture”. Kate from Flight of the Wines Poured shared with me some of her experiences as a Third Culture Kid now all grown up living in southern France. I had never even heard the term…