The local news has announced that because of the snow heavy lorry traffic has been stopped on the  the A-9 motorway .Firemen are distributing packed lunches!Oh la belle France! I can’t remember this happening on the M-1.One cannot go without lunch!

One of the delights of living in this area is that we have our local Slow Food convivium  (www.slowfood.com),and very convivial we are too! Our latest outing was to a local truffle plantation.I had visions of spending the afternoon stumbling around damp woods vainly seeking the elusive truffle on the off chance that we might [...]