It was our 20th wedding anniversary yesterday. In keeping with tradition, we forgot...
A New Moi & Much News
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A Skeptic's Pilgrimage to Lourdes
When I was diagnosed with a rare and untreatable auto-immune liver disease five years ago called PSC I had no idea how to cope. My family has always had horse-shoes shoved up their rears as far as health went. Nobody in my family had ever, as I have come to call it, "lost their medical virginity" i.e. been diagnosed with a disease that could prove fatal.
I had no road map to follow. Franck, however, did...
A Beaune Morning
The Vineyard Horses of Burgundy
Five Further French Habits to Adopt
Thanks to the popularity of my first two posts in this series, Five Life-Enhancing French Habits to Adopt Today and Three More French Habits to Enhance Your Life I've come up with some further things I was first exposed to during my many years living in France and which add pleasure, ease, and authenticity to our daily lives here at chez Germain, such as...
10 Fave Things To Do in Paris
Chasing the January Blues - My Grape Year FREE from January 5-9th
Joyeux Noël
Wishing you all the merriest of Christmases, whether you find yourselves in Burgundy, or Africa, or Northern Canada. I hope you are surrounded by loved ones and joy. Here is an excerpt I wrote about a past Christmas in Burgundy (including plenty of food & wine porn) when we were knee deep in renovations at La Maison des Chaumes...Joyeux Noël!
Five Life-Enhancing French Habits
French Shutters
One of the things I love most about our slower days in France is the routine of opening up the shutters at La Maison des Chaumes in the morning and shutting them again in the evening...
Contemplating the Fall Colors of Burgundy
Al Fresco Deliciousness in France
Franck's Vintage Family Wine Harvest Photos from Burgundy
The Family Winemakers of Burgundy
Many of our friends and family in Burgundy are involved in the wine trade in one way or another. Burgundy is famous for its big wine houses, of course, the ones that most people have heard of like Patriarche, Champy, Louis Latour and so on.
In my opinion though the true lifeblood of wine production In the Côte D'Or is the small family-held Domaines...
To The Beaune Market...
It is the simple activities I enjoy the most when we are at La Maison des Chaumes, our house in the vineyards of Burgundy, France. Top of my list is going to the Saturday morning market in Beaune.
