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joie de vivre

“A rich person is not one who has the most, but one who needs the least.” The Gascons truly embrace the joy of living.  The simple pleasures of life are the most important: family, friends, good cuisine and conversation, meaningful work. They have no concept of the word urgent unless it relates to food or …

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esprit d'intérieur

          “We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness of the interior that holds whatever we want.”                                  can i order cialis online          Lao-tzu Our interior environments are like mosaics, …

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un marché de la campagne

The village of Eauze is 15 minutes from my house.  The farmer’s market was first created by Charles IX in the 16th century and has been occurring every Thursday, rain or shine, for the past 500 years.

fêtes de mères

A Mother’s Day celebration in Les Saintes Maries de la Mer, France. cialis coupon  A French tradition since 1950, May 25th, and an American tradition since 1914, May 10th. Mother’s Day originally dates back to the ancient Greeks who honored Rhea, mother of the gods, with a festival around the vernal equinox, the first days …

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Bonjour!

Meet Eva.  She is a wild boar, sanglier, that was saved by a friend, during a hunt, chasse, bottle fed and cared for like a member of the family. Hunting wild boar dates back thousands of years to ancient Greece.  I’m a vegetarian, so my abhorrence to any kind of hunting is palpable.  During my last …

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