Date: Tuesday 18th May 2021 Time: 7pm till 9h30pm Thank you all for your presence during this 4 week course of French immersion at Bookoccino. I appreciate your enthusiasm. It was a wonderful opportunity to take you on this journey. We will do it again soon. Join our mailing list to be kept in the…
The Christmas season is fast approaching and with it some beautiful lights displays. We select for you some of the best Christmas lights displays in France this year. 1- Aix-en-Provence 2- Montpellier 3- Nimes 4- Strasbourg 5- Toulouse 6- Paris 7- Clermont-Ferrand 8- Colmar 9- Bordeaux 10- Montbelliard → Like to learn French and have fun doing…
Travel one day in the Pays-Basque in this beautiful 5min video, from La Rhune mountains to the rolling green hills, beautiful valleys, picturesque ports and villages.
Last week-end, French people have witnessed a combination of incredible astronomical events. The 20th of March, a total Sun eclipse greeted the Spring Equinox, visible from everywhere in France. Then on the 21st, thousands gathered along the French coast to witness the “tides of the century” with tidal coefficients of 119 (this event actually occurs every 18 years). The…
Le grand depart Quand on rentre en France, c’est pas un simple voyage, c’est un grand voyage. [when we return to France, it is not a simple trip, it is a big trip] Grand, par sa duree ( 30 heures d’avion, lorsqu’on habite dans le Sud). [ Big, due to its length – around 30…
Ha… les Pyrénées! The first thing I do everytime I come back in my hometown Pau, for holidays, is always to organise some trips to the Mountains. The majesty, the quietness, the tranquility of the Mountains is so relaxing. In today’s trip, we are heading with my parents and husband to the border of Spain,…
La Provence, cultural région of the South-East of France, is after Paris, the most visited place in France. Often associated with the movies Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources, endless fields of lavender and olive trees, picturesque villages and towns such as Aix en Provence, Avignon and Arles, Provence has been the home and…
Pau, (pronounced Poe), capital of the Bearn region, has a dream location: a couple of hours away (with the highway) from Bordeaux and Toulouse, the biggest towns of the South-West region, 1h30 away for the Atlantic Coast and the resort town of Biarritz and a little hour from the Pyrenees numerous valleys and the Spanish…
