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".

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,

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 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...

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...

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