Le Camion Pizza
I said there is nothing better than Goûter in the Trunk, but then I thought about the Camion Pizza. The original Food Truck.
Tag Archives: Languedoc
“Whatever Will Be, Will Be”
Back in January I applied for a Program Dean position at Oxbridge Academy in Montpellier. I wrote about it in a post: Working @ Montpellier this Summer ?!?!?. Then in March I got an interview, and was so nervous about it I could hardly stand it! Since then I have been waiting, waiting, waiting. Two […]
Annual Languedoc Festivals (that I’m putting on my calendar)
January-March: Limoux: Carnaval de Limoux Approximately ten weeks of festival, this is one of the longest running carnivals in the world. Masks, costumes, music, pranks, King Carnival burned at the stake, swapping of roles, and it’s all done in the Occitan language. March: Nîmes: Féria de Primavera This is the pre-Lenten carnaval , and the first of […]
House has sold, and we’re really moving to France.
After seven months of pursuing our dream of selling our house then moving to France, today it has officially happened. We closed on the sale of our house in St. Louis! Neither of us was quite ready to believe it until all of the closing papers had been signed. Until the last minute, we were […]
Let the French adventure begin!
It’s kind of hard to believe that this is really going to happen for us. All of last year we were getting our house on the market, thinking all the while that we would be moving to France during the summer (after the successful sale of our home, of course!). By now we would have […]
Crossing all my fingers and toes
Contract #4, Let’s do this already! My last post started out, “Moving to France in 24 days, and long-stay visa”. That was on May 14, and two contracts ago. The funny thing is that there are a lot of people interested in our house, but for reasons way out of our control (nothing to do […]
Traveling to Europe with Students
My experience leading student tours to Europe One month prior to departure with my students (about twenty of them this year), I’m beginning to think about everything that goes into putting together a student trip to Europe. The 2012 trip will be the fourteenth tour that I’ve organized, and the twelfth I’ve led. Thinking of […]
Round-trip or one-way flight to Paris?
Pour mes amis francophones: En ce moment j’essaie de prendre une décision importante. Le moment du départ arrivant, je ne sais pas si on doit acheter des billets aller-simple ou des billets aller-retour (deux fois le prix). Si on achète l’ aller-simple (très tentant), on risque de ne pas vendre la maison avant de partir […]
Top Ten Reasons to Live in France
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. -Ernest Hemingway
Many people have been asking me why we want to move to France. There are many reasons, and none of them are because we don’t like living in the United States. For our family, it just seems right. For one thing, we have the easy option of living in France legally. My husband is French, so nationality for the kids and me isn’t a problem.
When moving to France is a real possibility, you tend to think about it more seriously. For the last 14 years, we’ve been spending every summer there, all the time wondering if we could make it work for us.
Here are my TOP TEN reasons for wanting to relocate to France:
Reason # 1
Quality of life
Reason # 2
Work to live, not live to work. Taking time to enjoy life, spending time with family, longer lunches and dinners. Slower pace of living. Sundays are what they used to be in the United States forty years ago.
Reason # 3
Healthier lifestyle, pedestrian friendly cities, beaches, mountains, walks in vineyards.
Reason # 4
High-quality health care system, affordable to all, low cost prescription drugs.
Reason # 5
French gastronomy, locally grown fresh produce markets, bread, cheese, olive oil, Mediterranean diet.
Reason # 6
Easy travel to diverse locations (other European countries); children grow up (with the possibility of) being exposed to more foreign cultures. And no matter where you live in France, Paris is just a quick train ride away.
Reason # 7
Some of the best, and most affordable wine regions in the world. Summer wine festivals in the Languedoc are fabulous.
Reason # 8
Mediterranean climate: The weather may not be so fantastic in every part of France year round, but in the Languedoc, it really is quite pleasant most of the time.
Reason # 9
Manners are still important in France, and the vast majority of children are raised to show respect. This is very important to me.
Reason # 10
Comparatively low violent crime rate. We are not planning to live in a big city, but even in Paris I feel safe walking alone at night.
What we’re going to put in our 20-foot container
Our house still hasn’t sold. 42 days or so on the market and two weeks since we’ve had a showing, but I’m still curiously optimistic. I don’t know how I’ll deal psychologically if this doesn’t work out. Let’s just not think about that Here’s what our container will look like. Doesn’t look that big, […]
