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Miriam Eckerle loves flowers, her cats and France. Just like moi! To enjoy all three at once she made the life changing decision to pull up stumps from her home in the US and move to the Charente region in France with her husband Jon. Miriam and Jon discussed for many years the idea of…

Katherine Watt has lived and worked in many countries around the world but it has been Paris that has captured her heart! So four years ago she made the leap to resign from her job and move to France! Katherine has family, children and grandchildren in the US and in the pre-COVID times they could…

So this week saw exiting news in the Aussie Francophile world… the Embassy of France in Australia has launched a new website Sacreblue! I was super excited that the Loulabelle’s FrancoFiles podcast was asked to come on board as a contributor for the new platform which is dedicated to bringing together all institutions, organisations and individuals who…

Kerry Milligan is an entertaining, intelligent and fascinating woman who appears on our Australian televisions each week on Gogglebox. I loved chatting to Kerry about another aspect of her life which is her connection to France. Kerry has always felt very connected to Ireland due to her Irish heritage but a punk party in a…

A while ago a friend told me of a très fabuleux band called Baby et Lulu based in Sydney. J’adore their music, singing exclusively en français so I decided to seek them out for a chat! I thought why not share their loveliness that shines through beautifully in our petite podcast papotage with all our…

My belle amie Karen has travelled numerous times to France (quite a lot avec moi!) and has twice stayed in the Champagne region.  I’m so jealous as unfortunately a trip planned for my old school friends and I was called off in 2020 in the week we were supposed to depart. We’re all getting used…

I loved chatting to Laura Morelli as she had numerous fabulous stories to tell, both French and otherwise!  Laura is an Art Historian with a PhD from Yale. She is a best selling and award winning historical novelist, in addition to authoring numerous guidebooks for travellers having lived in 5 countries! She often highlights Venice…

Recently I have started thinking about what my next vacances in France will look like and about my list of places to visit that I haven’t yet been to. The top of that list is Lyon. A little while back I chatted to fabulous pastry chef based in Versailles Molly Wilkinson in LFF episode 47 and I saw on her Instagram that…

In Australia watching the Olympic Games in 2021 was a relief for many of us in lockdown. The Paralympics is on as I write this blog and I find myself often overcome with emotion at the perseverance and inspirational stories of so many of the competitors. I was fascinated to hear from ma belle amie…

Molly Wilkinson has loved pastry all her life. After a brief visit to France during her College years, & also after working 9-5 in the US for a number of years (which she loved by the way!) Molly decided to follow her passion for baking and explored options to go to the Cordon Bleu cooking school in…