Newsletter - December 2018.
Bonjour
It's winter in France and looking very festive with Christmas only a week or so away. The weather has become decidedly colder and winter recipes and roaring fires are now the norm.
Homes are decorated and preparations are underway for family festivities and gathering together with friends. We hope you enjoy the photos above of our recent trips around France.
This month we have a bumper newsletter to get you through the holiday season and we'll be back with even greater things in the New Year.
Newsletter - October 2018
Bonjour from France!
Autumn in rural France is such a beautiful season with the constant changing colours of the foliage and the golden waving fields awaiting harvest.
The harvesting around our village continues almost around the clock with tractors and harvesters still trundling through the Main Street well after 10pm. In the night fog their flashing lights almost look alien as they rumble along creaking with full loads.
Newsletter - July 2018
Bienvenue to another newsletter featuring fabulous articles on France and french activities.
Did you celebrate Bastille Day, or as it's called in France, le Féte nationale? I think all of France has celebrated hard over the last week or so with the national holiday and FIFA World Cup win!
What are you doing in your part of the world? We are putting the final touches to our plans as we prepare to spend autumn with the kids in France and [...]
Newsletter - June 2018
Bonjour, I hope you are having a great day my friends.
With chilly days and regular baking our home is now full of delicious smells which of course makes our little dog Angelina all the more insistent to be let in and share the warmth, and it seems when my back is turned, to be fed morsels under the table by other family members, not mentioning any names... Thomas and Paul! Does this [...]
Newsletter - May 2018
Bonjour my Francophile friends and welcome to your monthly dose of Frenchliness (I think I just made that word up) from me and A French Collection.
Coming soon to my area is the Alliance Française French Film Festival where I will bunker down in an old fashioned cinema seat, drink champagne, nibble roasted nuts and watch myself silly with film after film for three nights and two […]
Newsletter - April 2018
Hey there my fellow Francophiles and welcome to our monthly newsletter.
So here's the interesting thing, we ran a poll over on Facebook - A French Collection asking 'What Do You Love The Most About Paris? Amazing food and wine or stylish architecture and famous buildings? And guess what won [...]
Newsletter - February 2018
Bonjour et bienvenue to the February 'Life in France' Newsletter - I hope it finds you well and happy as we quickly make our way through 2018.
Did you celebrate Valentine's Day, or as it's known in France, Saint Valentin? Our Valentine family meal was so much fun and our romantic young son (14 years) gave his school friend her first red long stemmed rose [...]
Newsletter - January 2018
Welcome to 2018 from us at A French Collection. We've spent the Christmas and New Year season in France where the nights were cold and the days overcast but refreshing. With school children returned to classes and businesses returned for 2018, the year is now in full swing.
This season saw myself and Thomas spending winter in France, Anthony and Paul travelling to [...]
