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A Letter in Three Parts, Part Three: What I missed about home

Even when I was having a fabulous time living in France, eating baguettes and camembert with an earthy cote du rhone in a cafe in Aix-en-Provence, or jetting around Europe, there were plenty of things I missed about home. I even missed the little things, the kind of stuff you don’t really think about until [...]

Posted 25 July 2007 † Bethany § Personal § Travel ‡ Comments (0) °

A Letter in Three Parts, Part Two: Things I Hate About France

Living in France wasn’t always creme anglais, pain au chocolat and wine. Just like living anywhere, you have to take the good with the bad. (Right? RIGHT?? I think about this a lot lately.) As a follow-up to my post a few weeks ago about why I loved France (from a letter to my best [...]

Posted 12 July 2007 † Bethany § Personal § Travel ‡ Comments (0) °

A Letter in Three Parts, Part One: Why I Loved France

When I lived in Aix-en-Provence, France, during my senior year of college, I wrote my friend Aubrey a letter. In this letter I included a list of everything I loved about France. To make it fair, I also included things I missed about the United States and things that I hated about France.
I think about [...]

Posted 21 June 2007 † Bethany § Personal § Travel ‡ Comments (2) °