When a Normandy village decides to hold a Bachelor’s Ball, sparks fly, the cider doesn’t get made on time, and the muscled firemen act like Chippendales dancers.
Barcelona, Carpe Diem
Julia McLean travels to the Barcelona, Spain, one of the world’s most extraordinary cities, and decides to really seize the day.
A Post-Holiday Epiphany
Many things conspired to leave Julia feeling blue during the Christmas season. Now she awaits a post-holiday epiphany, to avoid any “gathering gloom”.
The Season for Calvados – French Apple Brandy
Calvados, the Apple Brandy from France’s Normandy, is exactly what you need to warm the cockles of your heart on cold winter days. Julia McLean shares the centuries-old secrets of the best Calvados and a look into life in the French countryside.
Christmas in France
A visit with France’s ghosts of Christmas Past and Christmas Present. Christmas season starts in France just as it does in North America, at the beginning of November. The fliers, adverts for Christmas markets (idea imported from Germany), “getaway-from-it-all” travel offers and Rudolph jingles start to invade our space. By the end of November, the […]
Cider, The Old Fashioned Way
Life in French Normandy is never dull, and cider time is no exception. In this dispatch from France, Julia McLean offers a glimpse of the cider maker who will not officially sell his cider for reasons of family history dating all the way back to the war.
France’s Freshest Wine – Beaujolais Nouveau
In France, huge festivities accompany the launch of the freshest wine in the world — Beaujolais Nouveau — complete with a race to be the first to get this wine to Paris.
Lost for Words
When a writer begins to forget words, she worries it may be something more serious than just having “Senior Moments”.
The Old House
Julia McLean doesn’t believe in miracles or ghosts but there are some things that happen in her old house in Normandy that simply can’t be explained away with logic.
Hard Cider Means Hard Work
Julia McLean’s adventures making cider the old-fashioned way in Normandy, France with a little help from friends.
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