Posts by Diana Bishop

It was a scorching Friday morning when I arrived at the majestic train station in Nice (designed in the 1800s in the majestic Louis XIII style).   The platform was already packed, and I ended up having to squeeze in and remained slammed up against a mob of other tourists and locals with every square…

  This PIC above is ME dreaming! About having a place that I can return to time and time again in France!   And I finally did it! If you have been following along with my story, you know that “mon amour et moi” purchased a fractional property* sight unseen in Vieux Nice|Old Nice this…

I love that in Paris mature women seem to be respected and valued for their longevity and wisdom. The older they get, it seems even more so. I have often eaten alone in a restaurant surrounded by women of a certain age, many of them definitely over 75 and some well over 80, sitting with…

  I was skeptical that a “stroll” along the famous Avenue des Champs-Élysées was the right thing for this couple of jet-lagged seniors to do on our first day in Paris. “Mon amour” suggested it as a good initiation back into the city. My partner had not been to Paris in a very long time…

  Welcome Back, Everyone! I hope you have enjoyed the best of the season wherever you are around the world. And I want to welcome all of our NEW subscribers who are joining us for the first time. Thank you again for subscribing!   This woman of a certain age has had a busy summer…

  Hello All,   As I do every year, I am taking a summer break so this will be the last blog post until the end of August.   In the meantime, I am off to France to gather more stories to tell.   First stop Paris naturellement! Paris!       It’s been a …

  I am a huge fan of French mustard and I look for ways to eat it on almost everything!   Here’s why!   Growing up, I was very envious of my cousins who spoke French. They had a French Canadian mother, my aunt, who married my mother’s brother.   I might have been about…

  On my first and only (so far) visit to this diamond of a French Riviera town, I came in by car with some friends.   That meant that we first had to wade through the throngs of people shopping at the Place des Lices Market to make our way down to the port.  …

Katharine Hepburn May 12th, 1907 – June 29th,  2003   The anniversary of Katharine Hepburn’s birthday is coming up this week and I wanted to celebrate it with a story that mon amour Pat told me about her.   Of course, there is also a French connection.   Starting in 1969, Hepburn starred in the hit…

  Hello All, Special Offer to New Subscribers! And welcome to our new subscribers!   If you attended this past week’s FRENCH to GO Workshop as a Guest of Camille, our host and French teacher of frenchtoday.com, you were automatically subscribed to this bi-monthly blog where I explore all things French and take you on…