NEW SUMMER STOCK FROM FRANCE + GIVEAWAY COMPETITION

Bonjour! We are please to announced that our new stock from France has just arrived and available in our boutique, French collective. For this upcoming season, our heritage from the South of France is our inspiration. Our purpose is to bring you some authentic and original products.  We have vivid memories of our childhood helping our grand-mother…

10 MUST-SEE IN MY NEXT TRIPS TO FRANCE

France cultural and natural diversity is amazing. I’ve traveled and visited a lots of places in France but there are still so many I would love to see or revisit. Since I live in Australia, I don’t have the opportunity to go back as often as I wish but at every trip back home, I make…

CLASSIC FRENCH MADELEINES RECIPE

This classic French biscuit is perfect with a cup of tea or coffee or for your kids’ snacks. You can find a lot of recipes on the net, with or without butter, with honey, chocolate, lemon or vanilla. As for me, I will follow my grand-mother recipe with butter and lemon. Easy and quick to bake, it…

ONE DAY IN PAYS-BASQUE

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.        

UNE RENCONTRE

Une rencontre/ Quantum love (2014-France) Storyline: a family man’s (Francois Cluzet) encounter with a beautiful woman (Sophie Marceau) develops into a mutual fascination / La rencontre d’un bon père de famille avec une femme magnifique va se transformer en une mutuelle attraction. We saw Quantum Love recently and loved it. We saw many movies with the same typical romantic…

AMAZING PHOTOS OF FRANCE’S TIDE OF THE CENTURY

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…

IL ETAIT UNE FOIS EN FRANCE

J’adore les time lapse et notre coup de coeur aujourdh’ui revient a cette video magnifique, regroupant les principaux sites UNESCO et les plus beaux villages de notre beau Sud-Ouest de la France. We love timelapse and our “coup de coeur” goes today to this wonderful video, a compilation of World Heritage UNESCO sites and most beautiful…

BONNE ST-VALENTIN

Saint Valentin ou St Valentin est un petit village au coeur de la France! Saint Valentin is a little village in the heart of France  (meaning in the center of France) – St is the short for Saint (= Holy) Situé près de Châteauroux, ville principale du departement de l’Indre. Located near Châteauroux, capital city…

BELLE LECON DE FRANCAIS

Petite histoire à partager … Un vieil instituteur donne à “ses petits enfants” une leçon de vocabulaire sur les cris des animaux : Old school teacher giving his children a lessons on french verb used to describe the sound of animals. The french language is  rich enough to have one verb per animal sound. Read it out loud…

SURPRENANT LANGUE FRANCAISE

Je le répète à mes édudiants, apprendre le francais est simple. Une dose de bonne volonté et le tour est joué! Toute simplicité a aussi ses futilités..voire contradictions? En voici quelques exemples rigolots. Pourquoi dit-on qu’il y a un Embarras de voitures quand il y en a trop, et Embarras d’ argent quand il n’…