June 2011

Celebrating One Year

27 June 2011
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A year ago today I posted the beginning of my journey with laBelleinFrance.com as I prepared for my long-awaited return to France. In life we embark on so many adventures, often more blindly than we have the courage to admit even to ourselves. It was my dream that my one year opportunity in Provence would [...]

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Home away from Home, or the other way around…

18 June 2011
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It took me a few days for my mind to fully grasp I’m back in my homeland. I’d forgotten that I can find a pharmacy open at midnight. And while driving, I can stop anticipating roundabouts. And the barista thinks I’m strange for starting with bonjour, oops, oh well. Welcome back to the USofA! Wooohooo! [...]

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Le Grand Voyage: Back to Paris

16 June 2011
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The original plan was to take the train from Nice to Paris. While I was uncertain wether or not I’d be returning to France or not for school in the Fall this seemed doable. However, it soon became clear that TGV would never let us head to Paris with so many boxes and suitcases headed [...]

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My Provençal Village: Lorgues

8 June 2011
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There came to be only one simple expression that seemed to adequately convey my frustrations with life in bitty-village Provence: Oh, Lorgues. Oh, Lorgues. Oh my Lorgues. What more could I say? When I finally arrived with a car my final few days, it just seemed so stupid that the places I’d been dying to [...]

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Le Grand Voyage: The French Riviera

3 June 2011
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After a peaceful break in Lorgues, I was back on the A8 to spend nearly a week in the French Riviera. What another world I entered into! While the other regions seemed to blend one to the next, Nice felt as if I had arrived in another country altogether, even despite my many visits to [...]

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