Last week, I wrote an article about the kinds of foods that people eat in France. As my list was far from exhaustive, I thought I'd write a bit more about the everyday eating habits of French people I've lived with.These observations, of course, should ...
French food is famous all over the world. But when people think of French food – if they think about it at all – they usually think of Michelin-starred fine dining restaurants, alongside the usual snails, frogs legs and smelly cheese stereotypes.But the ...
Paris is nothing if not walkable. It's a big city where walking is not only encouraged, but genuinely enjoyable. Not only are the streets of Paris designed with pedestrians in mind, but there are so many sights and sounds in every direction that you can ...
I recently returned from a trip to Andalusía in the south of Spain. While I was only there for three days – and only for the purpose of attending a wedding – I found the experience really interesting. Here are five things that caught my attention. Rice ...
Paris needs no introduction. As one of the most visited cities in the world, the French capital contains countless attractions that are known the world over. But while everyone knows the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre and Notre Dame, there are plenty of int ...
New Zealanders are probably the most self-deprecating people in the world. We might even be number one on the self-deprecation table – but of course, I couldn't say that. Just making the claim would, ironically, contradict it. The fact that we're a smal ...
France, it goes without saying, is known for its food. French cuisine holds a certain cachet that few other cuisines have had bestowed upon them. So as a New Zealander living in France, how could I possibly compare French and New Zealand food? I must a ...
Italian is a beautiful language — and often, for new learners of the language, a challenging one at that. But it doesn’t have to be. As a native English speaker who majored in Italian at university and once did an Italian course at a language ...
In my time cosplaying as a semi-fluent French speaker, I've noticed that the adverb trop is one of the most widely used words in French. Francophones have this tendency to use trop (meaning 'too') as a way to intensify the meaning of pretty much ...
Having lived in France for close to four months, I can feel my grasp of French getting stronger. But the more I understand what is being spoken around me, the more I've come to realize that a lot of French is just plain bizarre.Every language h ...
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