From the French Easter traditions to enjoy with his family to tips to order the cheese and spring rules to know, the Bleck the Belle this week this week sacrifices you an essential starting point to eat, speak, drink and live as a place.
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As French families go for spring trips, many have packed with some chocolate Easter bunny for the trip. Compared to last year, Easter is a bit late this year on April 20.
But I think I can speak for everyone in France when I say that we all hope JOUR FERIÉor bank holiday. People in eastern France have one more luck, benefit from holidays both on Good Friday and Easter Monday.
For the rest of us, we will have to settle for chocolate and flying bell stories.
Easter activities in France for families
Last year, I spent the Easter weekend with some friends in the Loira Valley, near Blois. Interested in a cabin, which comes with a good grill and a pair of geese not so Nice (Huguette and Robert who set up anyone who approached).
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It was the best time of the year to visit this region. The flowers were flourishing and practices, all small villages in the Draftement Loir-Et-cer had their own market with fresh products, wine and cheese on Saturday before Easter. I strongly recommend visiting the march of Loches if you are in this part of France.
While barbata, we ate a delicious local cheese that really melts in the mouth: Selles-Sur-Her. For those who are not familiar, it is a goat milk cheese with a blue mold that scores gray that covers it. At that time, I was burning a newspaper to classify each type of French cheese that had tried, and won a full page of notes.
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I began to have confidence on my cheese preferences, thanks to the notebook, but unfortunately I decided to fly too close to the sun for a few weeks in the neighborhood. forest.
Normally, I warn the Cheesemonger that I am a desperate American and that I would be happy with any recommendation, but this time I enter and specifically wonder about the types of Tomme Cheese in stock.
He released and commented on how ‘ask Tomme It’s like asking for wine in a wine shop ‘. That seems fine to me. I reversed to ask about their professional opinions about the cheese behind the counter.
All that to say: I don’t think it is at the level at which you can discuss in depth cheese with Cheesemonger yet. The best strategy until now seems to maintain a humble attitude and ask for your recommendations. Until now, I have not brought to the leg on a bad way.
7 tips to buy French cheese
Also jump marks the beginning of terrace Season, especially in Paris. This is the best remnant of COVID-19. Duration Pandemia, restaurants expanded their outdoor seats to help people stay in society, but this became a permanent change in the spring/summer landscape.
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In the USA, Spring marks the beginning of the barbecue season. It seems to be a child of universal human trait by enjoying outdoors when the weather is pleasant.
For those who live in apartment buildings with balconies, the balcony is the closest to their own nature of the city. In some apartment buildings, you may have a barbecue or hang clothes on the balcony, but others have strict rules about such things.
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France has its fair shared of unexpected rules that seem to have a more outstanding duration in spring.
For example, you must keep in mind that cutting your hedges after March 15 could be prohibited by local authorities.
Similarly, if you want to take your dog to walk in nature, be careful to keep it with a strap if you are going through a forest or wooded area. Otherwise, a mango fine could be risked to disturb wildlife.
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France is a great place to be a dog, only in French cities. I have discovered that the country is quite deciphered when it comes to pets. In fact, I was surprised to know that if you are an interest, whether or not you have a pet, it is considered real as private information that does not have to reveal the owner.
In addition to that, there is no law that prohibits restaurant or coffees dogs (he thought the owner can say no).
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