Barry A. Whittingham here, a Frenglishman and a blogger. I have spent most of my adult life as a British expat living in France. This Blogspot blog is one of the websites online where I tell my story. This includes some life lessons and everyday stories I trust you will find humorous. Perhaps you can learn a few things about the proper steps for planning a move to France. I also wish you the best with your own life endeavors and any "Frenglish Thoughts" you may entertain now or in the future.
Celebrate with me the inauguration of my new website "Call of France". This website is in pre-promotion mode for my new writing project. It may seem a bit thin for now, but I am just getting started. Have a look around and please do bookmark and.or subscribe for future updates.
More Music Sunday..French music and French cafe. 1 Hour of best of French cafe music and French cafe accordion traditional music. Collection 1 with beautiful video of French music playing in french cafe is here: http://youtu.be/AsSnv75F1Es.
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Listen to frenglish tracks and watch videos of frenglish artists. Just as would expect, there is Frenglish music out there. You may have to hunt and peck a bit on the Internet and perform some Google searches to find what seems like limited resources.
A recent search yields a channel on YouTube labeled "Frenglish Music" and also the popular Internet radio station Last FM offers up a selection of Frenglish music artists.
This is a video montage of vintage and classic French automobiles and other French vehicles past and present.The French are famous for making tires (Michelin), but French automobiles are not so much well-known except for multinational giant automaker Renault.
Infrequent trips back to the UK after 40 years as an expat living in France always stirs emotion of the former glory of the British Empire. Here are some stunning visuals of London and other points of interest found on the Island Britannia.
A continuation of my Sunday posts about French music. This time French music and French cafe. 1 Hour of best of French cafe music and French cafe accordion traditional music.
French Bulldogs seem to be popular pets and they are also smart little dogs...
From the Video Description: French Bulldog Paris is 7 months old now. We had him when he was 5 months old. He is doing the tricks he has learned so far. Let Paris knows what tricks you would like to see him doing next time.
I used to do posts about French music and the French music scene almost every Sunday. Since I have not done this for some time, I thought I would scout around YouTube for some new videos and then perhaps start making these posts again on a regular basis, Let's see how it goes...Enjoy the music!
Grasse is another of the beautiful hill-towns of Provence, in the south of France along the Côte d'Azur. The historic Old Town of Grasse is made up of narrow pedestrian lanes lined with shops and cafes. We walk you all around in this video tour.
Coat of arms of Provence (France) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
History of Provence - "The historic French region of Provence, located in the southeast corner of France between the Alps, the Mediterranean, the Rhone River and the upper reaches of the Durance River, was inhabited by Ligures since Neolithic times; by the Celtic since about 900 BC, and by Greek colonists since about 600 BC. It was conquered by Rome at the end of the 2nd century BC and became the first Roman province outside of Italy. From 879 until 1486, it was a semi-independent state ruled by the Counts of Provence. In 1481, the title passed to the Louis XI of France. and in 1486 Provence was legally incorporated into France. Provence has been a part of France for over 400 years, but the people of Provence, particularly in the interior, have kept a cultural identity that persists to this day." - From Wikipedia
Excerpt from the Video Description - Cabernet sauvignon is a proud French grape and the principal variety behind France's most famous red wine, Bordeaux. With its lacy, dark green leaf and tight bunches it's one of the more handsome vines in the vineyard. It has quite rightly been called the king of the red grapes.
"Cabernet
Sauvignon is one of the world's most widely recognized red wine grape
varieties. It is grown in nearly every major wine producing country
among a diverse spectrum of climates from Canada's Okanagan Valley to
Lebanon's Beqaa Valley." Excerpt from Wikipedia
Growing in the wine region of St-Estephe in the Medoc, Bordeaux France (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Nuit Blanche concept came from Jean Blaise, who founded the Centre de recherche pour le développement culturel (Research Center for Cultural Development) in Nantes, France, in 1984. -Wikepedia
Pretty much the ubiquitous meal for dining in the UK either eating at a restaurant or as take-away food, Fish and Chips is also a favorite food to be made at home.
About This Video
Wales Fish Bar on a Friday to understand the obsession consumers have with the British delicacy Fish and Chips and how to perfectly prepare them in an upscale 'Chippie' that appeals to the common man or woman.
Fish and chips, a popular take-away food of the United Kingdom. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
You will find the Old Town of Nice, France is something very special. Not so much because of historic monuments or buildings, but rather the total atmosphere.
Art Nouveau is a French inspired term meaning "new art". It was influential as an international movement of art, architecture and applied arts. What is old is new again!
Definition of Applied Arts
"The applied arts are the application of design and decoration to everyday objects to make them aesthetically pleasing. The term is applied in distinction to the fine arts which aims to produce objects which are beautiful and/or provide intellectual stimulation. In practice, the two often overlap." Source: Wikipedia
The Catacombs is a tour you should not miss, although I would not suggest it for the faint of heart.
For over 300 years, millions of the dead of Paris were buried beneath the streets of the city. Come along as we travel underground to the Paris Catacombs and see what many say is one of the scariest places on Earth.
Cemeteries in Paris
"Paris' earliest burial grounds were to the southern outskirts of the Roman-era Left Bank city. In ruins after the Roman empire's 5th-century that fall and the ensuing Frankish invasions, Parisians eventually abandoned this settlement for the marshy Right Bank: from the 4th-century, the first known settlement there was on higher ground around a Saint-Etienne church and burial ground (behind today's Hôtel de Ville), and Right Bank urban expansion began in earnest after other ecclesiastical landowners filled in the marshlands from the late 10th century. Thus, instead of burying its dead away from inhabited areas as per usual human customs, the Paris Right Bank settlement began its life with cemeteries at its very centre." Source: Wikipedia
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Today there may only be around 20 of the original arcades that were in Paris in the 1850s. These famous arcades are used by Parisians purely by chance as shortcuts or simply for pleasure. Each arcade has special characteristics, and they all are actually private roads.
Overview
"Parisian arcades began to be constructed around the beginning of the nineteenth century and were sometimes destroyed as a result of Baron Haussmann's renovation of Paris during the Second French Empire (ca. 1850-1870). Benjamin linked them to the city's distinctive street life and saw them as providing one of the habitats of the Flâneur (i.e., strolling in a locale to experience it)." Source: Wikipedia
