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Fidelma Cook
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My dormant muscles soon groaned in protest yet I realised with delight that there was a confident,...
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Being nice in France is asking to be taken for a ride, considered not quite the full 50 centimes
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Our biggest mistake is believing the French are basically the same as us
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The supermarkets reflect this need to hunker down and wait for the worst to be over"
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The sun is far hotter than it should be, and my face has reddened after two hours sitting outside...
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Because France's health system is not free, each one of us is a client, a customer, not merely...
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And so I come to another autumn here; shutters closed, new books to be read on grey afternoons
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The president appears hell-bent on ridding the country of both rich and poor-to-middling
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Perhaps I'm fantasising and he is no more than an average baker from another commune
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My heart dances a jig, bouncing around my chest, and I try hard to leap beyond it. Nothing works...
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The pilgrims I've seen in my time here grip their walking poles with a steadfast determination
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Linen, silk and cotton enfold the long, lean bodies. The sunglasses are huge and the tans even
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The French have a different definition of personal space – witness the non-stop kissing
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It is a straightforward drive to the Luberon but as my world has shrunk my phobias have grown
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I felt any moral qualms oozing from me as I flicked through a brochure of fine townhouses
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In my defence, I was the victim of a powerful force that sweeps through France once a year
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So far Lavit's war is not a feud. It's a skirmish that has already incurred the wrath of...
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The old men who came to the bar for strong coffee, Armagnac and cigarettes are dead or dying
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Sunday is the most important day of the week, dedicated to family, friends, food and wine"
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France is unashamedly elitist: if you don't have the certificate, then you don't have the...
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