Making Friends in France: What Nobody Tells You
City vs. small town, French vs. international — and one surprisingly useful trick involving English bookstores.

Beyond the farmers’ market: a guide to the marchés nocturnes, gourmands, brocantes, and vide-greniers that make French community life so special.

What filming a TV segment about Texas food taught us about the small things you leave behind

Moving to France is exciting — and exhausting. Here’s why the stress of an interesting life is normal, and how to recognize when you need to restore.

Shocked by French renovation quotes? We break down why costs are so high — materials, skilled labor, décennale insurance — and what to budget per square meter.

Moving to France won’t go perfectly — and that’s okay. Here’s how we handle the unexpected moments, from renovation shock to expat doubt.

Worried the exchange rate makes France unaffordable? We break down real costs — healthcare, food, phones — and why France still wins for us financially.

This week we saved €650 on three train tickets to Paris. Here’s exactly how we did it. The Sticker Shock We were booking a round trip from Bordeaux to Paris for a holiday weekend in May — still several months out, just over two hours each way, multiple trains running daily. We expected reasonable prices. […]

Have you ever caught a story about France in the American press and wished you could hear the French perspective on it? Or maybe you’re already living in France, mentally exhausted by newspaper articles en français, but still want to stay informed?

Here are our go-to sources for French news, straight from French outlets — in English.

How do you know if it’s the right time to move to France? How do you know it won’t turn out to be one big mistake? Honestly? Often, you just don’t. And that fear of not knowing can quietly keep you from moving forward at all. You’ve Always Made Big Decisions Without Complete Information Think […]

You’ve found your dates. You’ve pulled up the flights. And now you’re doing the thing every traveler does: staring at the price, wondering whether to buy now or wait. Will it drop? Will it spike? Is this as good as it gets?

We just found a tool that actually helps answer that question.

One thing that catches a lot of people off guard when moving to France is deceptively simple: how do you actually get yourself from the airport to your first landing place when your entire life is packed into suitcases?