France vs. Catalina
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 | Tourist for a day: let’s go visit our new hometown, Paris. My husband and I recently hosted a group of English friends as in our home. During that brief visit, I shared th... |
29-10-2007
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 | Rugby: I’m only a fan because of the calendar. You’ve probably read a lot about rugby these past few weeks. The Rugby World Cup is over and we know who won, so there... |
23-10-2007
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 | Savoir vivre: May I ask, please, where I can learn how to live? What does the French phrase savoir vivre mean? It simply cannot be translated. If it were translat... |
16-10-2007
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 | Cheese: a religion invented in France. There is a German expression to qualify the perfect happiness: To be as happy as God in France. Outside of France everybody likes F... |
02-10-2007
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 | The mystery of “sas’ratou”: the phobias of being an expat. We all have phobias; there is no use denying it. We are born with some and we develop others from all of ... |
25-09-2007
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 | The “Promised Land” of sensuality: the third and final code to accessing French culture. Here we are at the final stop on our tour of the three “codes” needed t... |
18-09-2007
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 | As I explained last week, there are three codes that you need to master in order to get closer to the real France, the second of which is French cuisine. |
11-09-2007
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 | When I arrived in France, I was shockingly unprepared for this culture, even coming from another Latin country. I realised that I lacked the three secret “codes” that are suppose... |
26-08-2007
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