Category Archives: France

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This could be the next adventure

By mattgirod | Published: September 8, 2009

This NYT’s article talks about tourist farming in the States. Two years ago I was trying to find a way to stay in France  longer than my three month visa would allow. This seemed like a good route.  I could make a little money, be outdoors, work with my hands, speak French, and do some [...]

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quelle ouevre d’Art

By mattgirod | Published: May 11, 2008

It’s bricante season in France. I guess you could say its when France cleans out its closets. Townspeople get together and have a huge sale. I can’t say if its all over France but at least in the northern part, there were bricantes going on each weekend. (There’s a regional guide book for this.) This [...]

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Granville

By mattgirod | Published: May 5, 2008

Visiting my good friend Regine in Granville, France (along the coast of basse normardie)

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Okay, here’s a pic of Mélo!

By mattgirod | Published: March 1, 2008
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Bordeaux and Arcachon, France

By mattgirod | Published: February 28, 2008

Lovely and peaceful  on the south west coast of France, walking the dunes, biking along the coast and in the Pyrenees forests, taking the first years swim in the sea, eating oysters for the first time, and eating the best oysters in all of France ( says the locals), drinking wine with every dinner, perhaps [...]

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