Corinne says goat cheese is best in spring. Spring, when the most paresseux(se) of us emerge from hibernation, retaking the terraces for l’apéro and long lunches of fresh fish and goat cheese tarts and picnics in the park. Pollen permeates the air – only being stifled every two weeks when it rains and washes it up in chalk-like swirls on the…
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When I first got my school assignments for this year, I immediately started endless searching on Leboncoin for apartments. Could I afford the city? Could I afford the apartments? More importantly…will it be cute and will there be a boulangerie nearby?? If I had began by actually finding these cities on a map – which I did very shortly after –…
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Four years ago, when I was trying to get through “À la recherche du temps perdu,” I put on a kettle for tea and bought the biggest bag of madeleines I could find at Monoprix. The madelines and tea didn’t transport me back in time in Paris as I had hoped, but it did make the reading experience a lot…
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Paris is always a surprise every time I go back. And always a good idea. Part of its magic is that it is always changing but somehow always stays the same. Regardless of the fact that I lived there in college and have visited several times since being back in France, there is always a new arrondissement to discover; a new…
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One of the rite-of-passage films for all French majors and Francophiles, beyond “Amélie” and “A bout de souffle,” is “L’auberge espagnole.” Though the movie mostly takes place in Spain, it is one of the best examples I’ve seen on French bureaucracy and how studying abroad and living internationally changes you, especially how hard it is to go home after. No…
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