Archive for Bicycle Gourmet

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The French Cycling Bicycle Gourmet - French Country Travel Life Film Maker and Author. Your non-snobby Gourmet Guide to food, wine travel and Lifestyle Adventure!

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French Christmas Confidental

The French Christmas Fiesta Confidental..   Like most of us, the French don’t like to be cold. So, when vines become grapeless skeletons,  terrace lunches are only for polar bear club members, and it’s dark by four thirty; those that can afford it head to the sun.  Typically, Morroco, Tunisia, or the French isles of Guadeloupe and […]

6Dec2019 | | 10 comments | Continued
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Black Friday in France – Soon Banned?

Black Friday in France – soon banned? A final “au revoir” to France’s Black Friday sales frenzy? The End of Black Friday in France? That’s a Big “Absolutement” if French Politicans get their way. They’ll be voting soon on an amendment to end Black Friday in France on the grounds that it causes “resource waste” […]

29Nov2019 | | 26 comments | Continued
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French Church History Lesson

    French Travel = French Food, French Wine, French Chocolate, French History. And a big – no wait – make that a HUGE part of that History, are the Churches, Cathedrals, and Abbeys that really are “around every corner.” While the “big names” of French Churchdom are universally known – Notre Dame de Paris, Chartes, […]

16Aug2019 | | 31 comments | Continued