Favorite things, places, finds... After over six years here France is still a country full of surprises

This last year started a bit rocky, continued complicated, and finished with a heartbreak.

Where are we after five months of the house restoration project? I am sure many of you are waiting for the before and after pictures

On the first visit I really liked the house and its potential, but the garden was a proverbial "cherry on top".

It feels like it has been forever - living in one bedroom, waking up early before the workers arrive (because who wants to parade in front

As I am writing our first summer in Bourgogne is slowly fading. It is early September, we wake up to cold mornings, cobwebs in the garden,

I saw layers of old wall paper, covered in flowers, and the old plaster, in the prettiest pastel hues, pink and off white.

I was absent on Instagram and on this blog, my mind and time were occupied with planning, responding to emails, and making decisions

I can fall in love with moody and mysterious interiors, and the rooms full of pattern and saturated color, but I know that although

It seems that for every thing we gave up when we moved away from Lyon, we gained a few. Life has a different rhythm à la campagne

Over the months we've been here the house "told" us what it wants. It is over 200 years old, and evolved over the years, but retaining many

Summer of 2023 was a busy one. While the skies of Lyon were oozing heat at historic heights, I was arranging for movers estimates...

The same evening I told my husband "you have to see this house"

It has been over five years for us already in beautiful France, and it took five years to find a place to call our own.

It has been in the plans since we arrived in France - to find a place of our own. Then the pandemic came, and then we faced a changed...

Before we settled in beautiful France a few years ago, we traveled here almost every year. And of course every time I had to do a little...

When is the best time to visit Lyon? If you can make it happen, it would be the time when magnolias are in bloom. Place des Celestins in...

I could write about the farmers markets a lot! I think it was my first stop right after we moved to France...

Where did it all begin? The popular story on how the name "bistro" originated says it came from the Russian word "bistro" or "quick"...