November 2012
Maintaining personal hygiene while travelling in France is important, not only for the benefit of your travelling companions but also because, as visitors to La Belle Fromage, we are each in our own small way ambassadors for our countries. However, keeping up a regular regime of showering or bathing, what the French call laver, can face the problem of plomberie francais and its worst manifestation, the French bathroom… Continue reading
Eating in France, and Paris in particular, is easy and provided the traveller doesn’t venture into either the reptilian or the gastropod clades (if you do, you’re on your own) you can choose with confidence anything from the menu from gigot d’agneau to yaourt maigre. Generally, the French are such good cooks and the cuisine so refined that anything you order, regardless of ingredient, will taste better than anything you’ve ever eaten before and better than you ever will again until you return to Paris as you inevitably will… Continue reading
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