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I am not reading anything at the moment since I am on vacation. I’m spending most of my time walking, visiting, learning and talking with my baby girl. However I did upload two books to read when I get some downtime, Paris Forever and Lunch in Paris. Essentially they are about women who decided to stop everything in their native countries and move to France. I am interested to see what things in particular drove them to simply quit their comfort zone and take the plunge in a foreign country, and why France. I know why it would be France for me, it’s because I equate France with strong family ties, I’m curious what pulled them here, if not for family.
laurieanichols 
Well I’ve been reading Henry VIII by Allison Weir but that is not what I wanted to comment on. I think the reason someone would pick up and leave everything they know for France, at least why I might if I didn’t have a family, is the sophisticated yet simple lives. In your last entry you said you felt frumpy. First you are FAR from frumpy but I get what you were saying. The women in Paris are effortlessly breathtaking in their fashion sense but at the same time, you get your meat from a butcher, your bread from a baker etc. The shops are small and intimate. The countryside is full of wonderful people with a lifetime of tradition. In case you can not tell, when I spent only 4 days in Paris, I fell in love. Although I love being an American, a foreign country like France still holds a magical quality. Centuries of history still visible. Traditions from long ago still alive in the young.
I hope you and your daughter have a wonderful vacation. And I LOVE Angelina’s hot chocolate too…..
You get exactly what I meant, hooray! It is hard to explain how they make it seem so easy, voila I am chic. Henry the VIII was such a complex individual and a study in contrast. He did much to help Elizabeth be the success that she was when he laid out the groundwork for the British navy. It is a shame that he was such a lug head when it came to the ladies.
Have you read “The Piano Shop on the Left Bank’ by Thad Carhart? It’s a beautiful book by an ex-pat about feeling at home in Paris…
Sorry that it took me so long, wifi troubles overseas. Thanks for commenting, I have heard of the book and I looked for it to download on the iPad but I didn’t find it. I do have plans to read it. I can see that you enjoyed it.