Finished reading Catherine Sanderson’s Petite Anglaise and found it an enjoyable, well-written, light book, a “creative-non-fiction”/memoir that reads almost as a novel. My escape fiction/formula fiction of choice is generally the well-written mystery novel; as…
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One of our favourite finds in Paris is a little brasserie/bar in the 7th on Rue de Grenelle. Although it’s just around the corner from Musée Rodin, tourists don’t seem to venture in here, and…
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Well, you could eat here, but we didn’t. Somehow, amusing though it might be, the name “Good Meat” doesn’t seem overly promising (if you have to say it . . . ) But we passed…
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Macarons at Ladurée, Rue Royale Even on our very first visit to Paris, almost twenty years ago, with four kids in tow, we managed to enjoy some of the wonderful food available, although for the…
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First, a message from Misstic in honour of Bastille Day: Back on my island after a busy few days in Vancouver: I had lunch with my sister Rachel and my daughter Rhiannon at Griffin’s at…
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