Bienvenue to 2024 with a dreamy, magical French road trip
Let's start the year with a dreamy, magical road trip. The Loulabelle’s FrancoFiles has an exciting 2024 planned. Grab your beverage of choice and sit back to escape virtually to…
The delights of a French Noël roadtrip!
Joyeux Noel and Bonne année! Currently I am sending you wishes for a gorgeous Chrissy from my home in the Aussie bush surrounded by the sounds of kookaburras in summer,…
Escape to the Château, restoring the historic magic of France.
Julia Fulford Kirby lives in a most magical place, Château Mas de Pradié in Foissac in the Aveyron region of southwest France. I first saw her story on the Escape to…
Molly of Versailles, “Let them eat cake!
Texan native Molly Wilkinson moved to France to follow her dream of French pastry cooking and baking a number of years ago and since then has met her fiancé, moved…
Paris for Beginners
Rachael Coopes is an author, an actress, a yoga expert, a presenter on beloved kids' show Playschool and just an all-round lovely like-minded Francophile. Recently I have been reading her…
Come and stay with me in Jane’s Normandy Retreat 🤍
Earlier this year I stayed in Normandy with the gorgeous Jane Hiscock in her stunning historic Château du Jonquay. I’m headed back to stay with Jane again in September 2024…
Burgundy magic with mes belles amies! 🤍
Lyon Earlier this year I nicked off to France for almost 2 months! In the last couple of weeks, I had some gorgeous girlfriends meet me for a stay in…
Simone et Louise! A girls’ roadtrip to Provence!
Recently I have been speaking to a number of people who have travelled to France this year and they’ve got back into the travel groove now the world has opened…
The Parisian ABCs
Emily Gaudichon is The Real Emily in Paris on Instagram, she is a supermum to a teenager as well as two pre-schoolers and is constantly working on various projects simultaneously,…
The healing power of French music for chanteuse Noria Letts
Noria Letts is a French-Australian singer who performs French songs in Melbourne and Sydney with her band The Parisians. Her style is eclectic and varied, but her description of French…