Archive for August, 2005

Jouez Ball!

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

I went to baseball game in France today!
I had no idea baseball was heard of, let alone played, in France.
Yet, right in the middle of the small village of Fenay (yep, that’s right Red Sox fans, Fenay, not Fenway) there is an authentic baseball field complete with dugouts.

This all-American sport appears popular enough […]

Pêche de Vigne

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

You know the idea of the canary in the coal mine?
Well, in France the grape vineyards are protected in a very similar way using not a canary, but a fruit instead.

La pêche de vigne (peach of the vine) is a peach that is grown right in the vineyards.
The idea is that because it is […]

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