my second christmas overseas

Merry Xmas. Or should I say Joyeux Noël from here in France.

I am spending 3 weeks in a French village for Christmas this year with the French boy’s family (who don’t speak a word of English). It’s proven difficult to give a good impression without speaking the language. But I am giving it a go with hand signals and lots of smiles.

We have had meals every day with his friends and family. It can get tiring listening to a table full of French people full of wine and trying to understanding every word that they are saying. But his family are lovely. They live in a cute little village where we visited the local markets to get cheese.

I have had the opportunity to try lots of delicious French food and wine. I tried one of the delicacies of French food - foie gras, french for fat liver. It is scrumptious. I did not know when I was eating it that the duck is fattened through force feeding through a tube. Ick. It is actually illegal in California and there are websites protesting against the cruelty to ducks to make foie gras. But how could anyone ever tell the French to stop producing this traditional and popular dish? All I can say is, good luck.

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