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Voahangy was in Paris. We are back from three and a half  weeks in France, visiting my 81-year-old mother who recently fell ill. No holidays or road trips in the French countryside this time. Mr T and I have spent most of our time attending a Paris hospital, navigating the French health system, and catching up with my family.  Not here to play tourists, we didn’t visit a single museum, shop, or… Read More

Once I was French.  Actually I still am, but having spent more than half my life either in Australia or floating on the seven seas, I feel that I have absorbed so many traits from other cultures that my Frenchness is rather a technicality these days. Yes, I speak fluent French, I have a french passport, I can vote, travel freely to and from France, cook french dinners with my eyes closed,… Read More