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Chambery App
If you have an IPhone or IPod and are planning a visit to Chambery, buy my ITunes App. It will walk you through the city of Chambery to each historic landmark with walking directions, history, a map, and narrative. It's just $2.99. Click on the above photo of the elephant fountain for the link to the app.
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Chambery Guide Book
Get my Chambery, France Guide Book free with the purchase of my Cookbook: 'French Comfort Food: Recipes of Savoie and the French Alps.' Get both for only $7.99. Click the photo to get more information or to purchase your books now.
French Tutorial
A basic grammar and vocabulary review of the French language, as well as some informal & slang vocabulary and a special section on vocabulary for English-speaking expatriates living in France. Also included is an appendix on French pronunciation for English speakers as well as IPA transcriptions for most of the vocabulary lists and all of the verb conjugations.
Visit the Store to buy the e-book for $9.95 or paperback book for $24.95.
Join us on a small group tour of the French Alps on June 8-15th, 2013. I designed this tour to include the best of the region. Wander the Medieval town of Annecy, nicknamed the Venice of the French Alps, and take a boat ride on its crystal blue lake. Are you the adventurous type? Then parasail tandem off a mountain or take a cable car up to a 13,000 foot mountain near Mont Blanc. Are you a foodie? Taste local chocolates, cheeses, wines and hazelnut oils. Eat at two award-winning restaurants and have your private chef cook meals made with local products. Are you a history buff? Then satisfy your curiosity at Lyon's Old Town or Vienne's Roman Temple and excavated Roman city. Or just enjoy watching the parasailers and sunset while enjoying an outdoor aperitif on the top of a mountain overlooking Annecy's lake. See you in the French Alps! www.french-alps-tours.com
Alps Cookbook
Get my ECookbook: 'French Comfort Food: Recipes of Savoie and the French Alps.'
51 recipes of the region, collected from friends and local cookbooks. This is the only English language Savoie and French Alps cookbook in print. Only $7.99 and includes a bonus book: The Chambery Guide Book.
Click the photo to buy yours now or go to the Cookbook Page on the Navigation Bar!
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Keeping with our Paris theme, here’s a video of the fun you can find on a warm Summer day in Paris. We walked to Place Beaubourg to see what street entertainment we could come across. We were lucky because there was plenty of it. Here’s Part One of three parts of the sights and sounds we enjoyed on that day.
Paris In Motion (Part I) by time-lapse and stop-motion photographer Mayeul Akpovi are time-lapse stop-motion videos documenting his trip around Paris. He took over 3,500 photos to make these videos. Google him for more amazing Paris stop-motion videos. Stunning work!
Two of our favorite activities while in Florida were the Babcock Wilderness Eco-Tour in Punta Gorda and the Sand Sculpting World Championship on Fort Myers Beach. We recommend attending them both but you can visit them in my videos too:
Okay, I admit that Florida is not known for its wines. In fact, it’s hard to believe that they actually produce wine at all. But being the open-minded people we are, we decided to try a couple of wineries. The first is the only winery in the Fort Myers/Naples/Sanibel Island area. It’s called Eden Winery (first video) and, while their vineyards are in the Tampa area now since the local vineyards were wiped out by a hurricane, the tasting room and production is in the Fort Myers area. We did a wine tasting and were actually surprised that they weren’t too bad. Not that great, but not bad either. We even bought a couple of bottles (around $12 each). We also got an education. Apparently, the native vines in Florida are resistant to a fungus that attacks and kills normal grapes which are grown in other parts of the world. However, the Florida grapes do not taste good and can’t be used alone to make wine. So they brought French vines to Florida and grafted them to the Florida vines about 60 years ago. It is these hybrids that are used to make the Florida wines.
The other winery we visited was in Central Florida, the Lakeridge Winery. We took a tour of the production area and winery and we knew we were probably in trouble when we saw massive bags of Domino sugar everywhere (second video). We attended the wine tasting, and frankly, they were some of the worst wines we’ve ever tasted. In fact, I couldn’t take more than the smallest sip and then had to throw it out. The wines actually had a pine sap taste to them, which makes sense since Florida is overrun with Pine trees. See the wine tastings for yourself.