No snacking please, we’re French
There’s an etiquette to eating in France, which includes when you shouldn’t eat. “Mum, the family I’m staying with doesn’t snack,” my adolescent daughter told me, aghast. “I mean, […]
Continental shifts and culture shock
Rai, the English adventurer in X in Provence, finds herself facing a new set of cultural phenomena when she moves countries, or rather continents, to be with her lover. Back in Europe from a long stint in Hong Kong, the extent of the culture shock she experiences comes….well, as rather a shock.
The zest behind X in Provence
Provence had been simmering in my mind as the setting for a book ever since my travels there, a sandwich stop between career changes. Over time that simmering turned into a certitude.