Another week, and another chance to share with you some articles, information and stories that I'm sure you'll love. Welcome to a fabulous What I'm Loving This Week.
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Hello beautiful people, here's to another week of links I think you'll like. First we go to the cinema. There's something special about snuggling into a cosy soft large seat before a huge screen and being transported to faraway places, into different lives and social realms, even into the imaginable make-believe world, sometimes dreaming of who or what we might have done, or who'd we might have become. Inserting ourselves into the world of cinema is a glorious thing.
Château de Kergrist – How to Tour the Château and Gardens
Château de Kergrist - How to Tour the Château and Gardens
Château de Kergrist is a hidden gem in the Trégor Valley close to Ploubezre in the Côtes-d’Armor department of Brittany. It was on a warm summer’s day that I took a day trip to visit the beautiful and lovingly preserved Château de Kergrist and garden complex. Château de Kergrist at Ploubezre is just 8 kilometres from Lannion and tucked into a sheltered area near the River Léguer.
Notre-Dame de Paris Restoration Photos
Notre Dame de Paris - Repair work - Photo taken August 2017 from Arab World Institute rooftop balcony
Notre-Dame de Paris Restoration Photos
Notre-Dame de Paris is one of those places you dream of visiting and standing in front of when planning a trip to the city of Paris. No trip to Paris should be without a visit to this show-stopping medieval wonder. Often referred to simply as Notre-Dame, it's a Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, in the 4th arrondissement (one of the two islands in the middle of the Seine River in the centre of the city).
Unless you've been living on another planet, you'll have heard about the catastrophic fire that destroyed the cathedral in April 2019. On my visits into Paris I've watched the repair work that was being carried out in 2017 with the scaffolding engulfing part of the cathedral, then I was personally visiting the cathedral just one hour prior to the breakout of the April 2019 fire, and also over the next five years on different occasions I've walked as close as possible to the worksite as the major fire-damaged cathedral was undergoing its major restoration.
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Bonjour and welcome to What I'm Loving This Week. Here's an autumn photo I took last year as I was sitting at Café Le Bonaparte in Saint-Germain-des-Prés on the Left Bank. Café Le Bonaparte is a cosy cafe with a bright red, blue and white striped awning diagonally opposite the Saint-Germain des Pres Church.
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I don't know whether to be flattered or not, but more and more when I search and google for current dates of events, or want to research a little more, my own text and website is referred to as the number one authority in the AI Overview section on Google. Would you feel flattered that your work is now the first and foremost authority on a subject? Or is it a worry that your work will now be used, remade and reworded by others? A possible new and interesting dilemma for any creative that is an authority in their niche. With over 150 of my blog posts featuring on the first page of Google searches, I guess this is a complimentary way of saying my work is well appreciated for its originality, factual integrity and it's popular with readers.
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Fabulous Frenchly happenings for you this week include French language workshops, a Musée d'Orsay update, cute notebooks and the big Fête de Paris. We travel from hometown Newcastle, Australia to Paris in this week's links.
Spark Your Child’s Curiosity with French These School Holidays - "Learn, create, and have fun at our French Holiday Workshops for kids aged six to twelve. Led by enthusiastic French-speaking teachers, kids enjoy interactive games, songs, role-playing, storytelling, cooking, arts and crafts, and hands-on projects — exploring French culture, food, art, music and everyday life in the Francophone world." - Alliance Française de Newcastle
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Bonjour and welcome to What I'm Loving This Week.
School is just about to start again for a new year in France and this means it's a busy time for parents, teachers and the teaching community right now. Teachers are returning on Monday, 31 August and the students a day later on Tuesday, 1 September. The new school year is called la rentrée in France and like most countries around the world, there's those that look forward to children returning to school and routines starting again, but la rentrée also means leaving holiday destinations, holiday homes and returning to the workforce - not always as much fun I've found. I'm sharing more about la rentrée in our weekend newsletter, so look out for that.
Now take a moment for yourself and enjoy this week's links.
