General

The French Provincial Kitchen

French provincial kitchens only exist outside France. The average French kitchen is a modest, uncluttered, practical affair. It is not designed to be an exotic showroom of carpentry and exquisite furniture. We do not crowd the walls with cook books, artworks, eccentric displays of dried herbs and other paraphernalia. We don’t suspend pots and pans and other jangling ironmongery from the ceiling. We like to keep our gadgets and our utensils out of sight, just as we hate to smell what we’re cooking throughout the house. Cooking smells, like cooking equipment, are confined to the cuisine and the salle de manger. Just as good food must appear effortless and fresh so must the kitchen appear spotless and ready to burst into action at a moment’s notice.

LOOKING FOR NICOLE ( RAYMOND ) ROY OF LES ORMES FRANCE

  

NEED HELP IN LOCATING NICOLE ROY, WHO LIVED IN LES ORMES BACK IN THE 50'S AND 60'S. TEDDY BOLTON 

locate a family I knew back in the 1950"s in Les Ormes France

    I lived in Les Ormes, France in the mid 50's on Rue Du Pont. A family I knew on the some street by the name of Monsier, Madame Raymond, and daughter Michell and Nicole. Nicole ( Nicky ) married a Claude Roy and had one son Phippe in te 1960"s. If anyone has any information about the Raymonds or the Roys please contact them or me so that I may make contact with them. Thanks Teddy Bolton

   

http://www.simplygites.com

I would like to help anyone travelling to France and wanting to rent a gite directly with the property owner. I would highly recommend www.simplygites.com as we have just returned from a great holiday all booked through simply gites.

Mark

http://www.simplygites.com

Just returned from a great holiday in the south of France Aquitaine, Lot-et-Garonne, I wanted to rent a gite direct with the property owner and not use a travel agent. I came across serveral websites that advertised gite rental. However, the one we used was www.SimplyGites.com it was an easy to use site, and put us in contact with the owner. It was a great experience and would recommend it to anyone.

Mark

Private transportation from Cdg to Saint Cloud

Hello  Everyone

Does anyone have a list of private transportaion companies that shuttle passengers from cdg airport to the western suburbs of paris (saint Cloud) for a set  fee?

Thank You

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Stop Over Paris

Hi, My friend and I are joining a winery tour to Chablis and Burgundy the late August.  We are thinking to stop over to Paris for Friday-Sunday before we head up to Chablis.

In the Forum, I found that Normandie and Loire sounds interesting, are they public transportation accessible? Is train convenient?.  IS day trip doable?

Also, we know nothing about lodging, such as B&B, hotel.  Should we find some here close to train station? Any idea?

Winnie from Hong Kong

Yves Saint Laurent

[img_assist|nid=31293|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=190|height=220]The son of an insurance company president, Yves Saint Laurent was born on August 1, 1936 in Oran, in what was then Algeria. He inherited his fashion sense from his mother. He studied first at the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture, but felt frustrated by the syllabus so left after a few months. Saint Laurent left home at the age of 17 to work for the French designer Christian Dior. Following Dior's death in 1957, Yves, at the age of 21, was put in charge of the effort of saving the Dior house from financial ruin.

Anyone ever try a credit repair expert?

I’m looking to pump up my credit score from 640-to 700 to get a better interest rate on my mortgage. I’ve heard opening new credit card accounts can help (some say it could hurt) the score but i doubt that would be enough. I surfed the internet and read about credit repair experts that could help. Has anyone tried these guys? Do they really help and if they do how much can they help. The agency i talked to there name was Lexington, but not sure if they can help as much as they say they can.
Thanks for the advice.