France Tales

I spent the weekend of November 14-17th in Paris. I needed a change of scenery and that is just what I got.
I went to see my first play entirely in French, most of which I understood. Les Hommes Preferent Les Blonds, it didn’t occupy the highest brow on the cultural ladder but I got [...]

We came home from Figeac on the 14th of July, Bastille Day. We were a little worried about the traffic due to the Tour de France and Bastille Day celebrations. There was no traffic anywhere. We got home and were very tired. We decided not to do anything, not like us. We have a large [...]

WE took many pictures, photos, and images during our stay in Figeac France. We were visiting a friend in Figeac but the Tour de France happened to be passing through Figeac at the same time. Figeac was a little busier than usual. Not all pictures were from Figeac, but they are all from the surrounding [...]

We have lots of photos from the Ariege. I have been traveling a bit lately and have not posted too much. In France the Ariege, or the people of the Ariege, are often the butt of jokes. It’s kind of like New Jersey, really not that bad but many jokes place it as the punchline, [...]

Montcuq is a beautiful village in France in the Quercy. Thanks to a recent reader comment regarding funny or bad translations, I found a collection of videos about Montcuq on Youtube. Sorry to the non-French speakers, the video about Montcuq is only in French. I could have the Montcuq video subtitled on dotsub but even [...]

We drove home from Figeac today to Toulouse. We were expecting that there might have been a lot of traffic. There was none, pas de tout. Instead of going back to the Autoroute we drove a very scenic route. We drove from Figeac to Villefranche de Rouerge, Cordes-sur-Ciel, Gaillac, and then to Toulouse. Only the [...]