Climbing the cool dark stairs up from the basement lair to shower before school. Walking to catch the city bus in the dark, the streets sleek with winter rain. Glints of sunshine as my host sister and I meet up with her school friends. The […]
All posts tagged: France
French for Pinecone By Catherine Salcito
Owning an apartment in France was a long-held dream for us. David and I hugged each other after signing the contract on a charming flat in the Basque village of Ciboure. We ignored the three-flight climb to our new place and focused instead on the […]
Bastille by A.C. Koch
A Travel Story: Emma eyed the stranger’s bizarre drink at the end of the bar. “What’s he drinking?” she asked the bartender, who immediately shook his head. “Oh no, that’s his own stuff, we don’t sell it. He just keeps it locked up behind […]
Le Tour by R. F. Hamm
On the spur of the moment, I would see a stage of the Tour de France. My wife Anette, my son Ben (well into his 12thyear), and I were just ending a vacation in the Netherlands and Belgium and were on our way to Germany […]
Le Mercantour by Paul Jackson
Right, here we are then, at La Madone de Fenestre, almost 2,000 metres up in the French Alps, with the Col de Fenestre the only thing separating us from Italy. This was once a Roman sanctuary, then the home of the Black Monks in the […]
