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Marseille: Port to Port, and a peek at everything in between!
I found my chat with William Kornblum to be fascinating. Bill as he prefers to be called is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Graduate Centre at the City University of New York. He is also an author of many books but the one with a particular focus for us as Francophilesis Marseille Port to Port.…
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Escape FROM France!
Christine Sheehy is a copy writer, ghost writer and a book coach now living in New Zealand. She has wanted to have a stint living in France ever since she spent some time there as an exchange student when she was 16. France remained unfinished business for her, with only a few visits between that…
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Ooooh la la! Feeling the Fêtes de Bayonne!
Recently I shrugged off the COVID vibes and took to the skies to get back to the place that holds my heart, France! In the planning for l’été français I made arrangements to stay with ma belle amie Sarah Zwick from Be My Guest Immersions about 10 minutes from Bayonne in southwest France. Bayonne is…
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Dreaming of a Château
Growing up Julia Leach had a dream of living in a huge historic building, a château, with everyone she loved in the one little community and she had the feeling this beautiful home was meant to be in France. Julia had a dreamy, idyllic childhood which she describes as old fashioned. No screens, no TV,…
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Best French Forever!
Cynthia Moos was born and raised in Provence. Whilst studying in the UK she met her now American husband and moved to the US. Now living in Colorado she is reminded of the sounds of Provence with the cicadas in the summer. But after a few years Cynthia wanted more connection with her homeland, she…
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The sparkly side of France’s creative heart in Cannes 🌟
Right now the wonderful French Riviera city of Cannes is awash with glitz and glamour for the 75th Cannes Film Festival and I chatted to my belle amie Ruby Boukabou who is there this year about the most dynamic 2 weeks of her year! The festival is held in spring and according to Ruby it’s…
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So you’re ready to return to France? Moi aussi!
Lately I’ve been hearing more and more from Loulabelle’s FrancoFiles listeners that they are making plans to head back overseas and to France! It’s been such a long time since many of us have travelled that I thought an episode about travel tips to refresh our memories would be une idée fabuleux! Below is a…
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A French life that’s Fabulously Delicious!
Andrew Prior is a Francophile who some Australians will know from his time as a contestant on MasterChef some years ago, but now he is living his best life in a gorgeous pocket of France in the village of Montmorillon. Like me Andrew didn’t travel until a little later in life during his 30s. On…
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If you can DREAM it you can do it! Escape to the Château!
As an addict of “château porn” as we call it in my house, I feel as if I already know Karen Horne who has been on the Escape to the Château DIY series which is now known as simply Château DIY. Karen and her husband Paul had for many years spent weekends escaping to France and always loved…
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French Hack tips & memories of carefree France!
Bordeaux born and bred Alexandra Ganipeau lives in Melbourne Australia running her own interior design business and also an amazing service for all of us FrancoFilers, an online business called The French Hack. Alex’s French Hack has assisted hundreds of VCE French students demystify the conjugating and grammar issues we often find when learning French!…