Category: French food

Lyon Earlier this year I nicked off to France for almost 2 months! In the last couple of weeks, I had some gorgeous girlfriends meet me for a stay in Lyon and the country Burgundy region between Lyon and Dijon. Karen Grooby chatted to me on the podcast about the glorious 10 days we spent…

Recently I have been speaking to a number of people who have travelled to France this year and they’ve got back into the travel groove now the world has opened up post COVID! I was fortunate to make more than one road trip in France this year. I managed to escape and I nicked off…

Emily Gaudichon is The Real Emily in Paris on Instagram, she is a supermum to a teenager as well as two pre-schoolers and is constantly working on various projects simultaneously, but some how she has found time to write a children’s book as well! Emily’s book The Parisian ABCs is illustrated by Sarah Vesperini and she describes…

Noria Letts is a French-Australian singer who performs French songs in Melbourne and Sydney with her band The Parisians. Her style is eclectic and varied, but her description of French gypsy jazz shines through as a specialty for her. Noria has always loved music and singing right from a young age growing up in Burgundy…

No 3 The Château is a beautiful venue in the Cognac region which hosts many weddings through the warmer months each year, as well as other “experiences”, but it has not always been that way. After developing various properties in the UK, interior designer Julie Berry (aka Jules) decided to take up a challenge of renovating…

Packing it all in! Two months in France! As the seasons changed from spring to summer in France, I took the opportunity to head there for a number of special projects. For those of you following on Instagram you would have seen what an exciting time I had in the couple of months I meandered around lots…

My beautiful friends Ruby Boukabou and Wendy Lee Taylor are teaming up as they have done before, but this time for a wonderful show, “Paris Time Step”! They’re performing the spectacle on a péniche called the Marcounet, a sort of barge or long boat on the Seine just next to the Pont Marie which is…

I have known Cathy McKenzie for many years, but I never knew she was a lover of all things French! This year during the Australian winter, Cathy and her husband Lachie travelled to France and followed the sun for the entire European summer! Cathy and Lachie have travelled to France previously numerous times, including on…

Gabriel Gâté is a treasured iconic French chef in Australia! He is also a tv presenter, an author, a wonderful advocate for France and French events/businesses here Down Under and has been a fabulous friend to the Loulabelle’s FrancoFiles podcast from almost the very beginning! Recently Gabriel and his wife Angie travelled through France on…

Author Sonia Nicholson lives in Victoria Canada. Her first book Provenance Unknown was published earlier this year. It tells the story of a young single mum archivist who lands her dream job at the city archives and then discovers a forgotten French diary in the vault which takes her on a journey all the way to Paris!…