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Continue Reading A Weekend in Paris: Day 1 (Part Deux)Last week at this time Dave and I were strolling through museums and monuments. Today, we are attempting to work and study, but I’m taking a break to continue our trip to Paris because the trip to that city was wonderful. I mentioned before that we’d made plans to have a fairly busy Saturday, so…
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Continue Reading A Weekend in Paris: Day 1 – Notre Dame and the LouvreAs a spur-of-the-moment Easter weekend trip, Dave and I decided to head to Paris. We literally bought tickets on Tuesday for a Friday night departure. Only about 3.5 hours away by train, we got into Paris around 10pm and immediately set out to find our place for the weekend. We booked through airbnb.com and stayed…
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Continue Reading A Tale of Two CitiesSince Dave had a long weekend last weekend, we had planned to try and take some day trips. Sadly, the rains on Saturday and Sunday had other plans, but we did luck out on Monday, when we decided to head to Carcassonne, about a 2 hour train ride away. Carcassonne is basically like two cities…
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Continue Reading Avignon: a photo tourSince all most of February has been spent studying for finals, we celebrated the conclusion of exams last Sunday (I’m a bit late with this one) with a daytrip to Avignon. A quick train away, we arrived in the early afternoon to explore. We’d be interested in seeing the Palais des Papes for a while…
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Continue Reading Epicerie du MondeI like to pass through the epicerie du monde when I’m at any grocery store and I’m always perplexed at what I see. Apparently this is all America brings to the grocery world: Let’s take it by shelf-by-shelf, shall we? Pancakes/Syrup (Aunt Jemima, to be exact) Pepperidge Farms cookies as far as the eye can…
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Continue Reading Fulfilling a food cravingI’ve been a bit ambitious in the kitchen the past two days, mostly because I’ve been craving for some culinary comforts of home— but also because ever since I got my new sous chef iPad, I am constantly using it to look up recipes for our dinners, then using it as a cookbook come meal…
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Continue Reading Mish MoshI feel like the last week or so has been a mish-mosh of stuff. Nothing that singularly lends itself to a blog post, but together, gives a glimpse of Montpellier life.
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Continue Reading The One with the French BureaucracyLet me take a moment to share some insight on what it means to be an American (or any non-French citizen) living in France. In order to be official for (in my case) longer than 90 days in France, I applied for a long-stay visit visa, good for one year. I did that way back…
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Continue Reading Yes, but what else do you want with your vegetables?
So the New Year came and went and January seems to have gone with it. I didn’t get my act together for New Year’s resolutions, but I did adopt a new strategy in my (tiny) kitchen that should make for some interesting future posts, so I’m going to count that. Read on… Here’s the thing.…