Author Archives: loren24250

Highlights: a special Bastille Day, and more

Posted on July 19, 2018

A surfeit of socializing (how about that phrase?) has kept me away from toiling in the Blogosphere, so this will be a quick report on a few activities from the past weekend, starting with a special event at a village … Continue reading →

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Our fast-and-slow start to summer

Posted on July 8, 2018

It’s been a bit bizarre this year. We’ve had a very fast, virtually immediate jump into “The Season — Summer,”  but a very slow glide into “The Season — Tourist Invasion.” This year’s advent of summer, with high temperatures and … Continue reading →

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Showing off our “new showcase for art”

Posted on June 24, 2018

Both my wife Jan and I like and appreciate art, and are sorry that we’ve run out of space in our home — otherwise we’d be buying paintings and sculptures all the time. (Of course, we’d also be going bankrupt.) … Continue reading →

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Our new showcase for art — “plastique,” yet!

Posted on June 21, 2018

Daglan is becoming quite the home for artists and artisans. (More on this later.) And now we’ve got a major art exhibition coming up — the Expo Art Plastique — which begins on Sunday (June 24) and runs until July … Continue reading →

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Mexican? Well, actually, no

Posted on June 17, 2018

Regular readers with good memories may recall that in my last posting, I wrote that my wife Jan and I would be enjoying a Father’s Day lunch today (Sunday) at the new Mexican restaurant that was just opening in Saint-Laurent-la-Vallée. … Continue reading →

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And now for something completely different

Posted on June 12, 2018

The Greater Daglan Area — like much of Europe — tends to favour local flavours. In other words, you won’t have much luck finding German, Italian, Spanish or Chinese restaurants in rural France. (Okay, there are a lot of pizza … Continue reading →

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A tale of two (very different) lunches

Posted on June 8, 2018

Regular readers of Radio Free Daglan will certainly know by now that it’s possible to eat very, very well in the Greater Daglan Area. Our experiences over the past few days have confirmed that truism at both ends of the … Continue reading →

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