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The Unsolved Mystery of Rennes le Château

by Lisa LaCount | Apr 5, 2023 | Chateau DIY, Escape to the Chateau DIY Episode Recap, Living in France, The Chateau Experience

Rennes le Château though small, with a population of just 70 inhabitants, has been known for decades throughout France and beyond as boasting one of our greatest legends and arguably the inspiration for Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code. Accessed via a narrow road you...

Normandy Parma Parcels Courtesy of Chateau de Vaudezert

by Lisa LaCount | Oct 6, 2022 | Escape to the Chateau, Escape to the Chateau DIY Episode Recap, Escape to the OTHER DIY Château, French Food, Living in France

The Saturday recipe is brought to you by the Chateau de Vaudezert in Normandy and is aptly named “Normandy Parma Parcels”. Karen is the Chatelaine at Vaudezert and she is already in Normandy preparing for and looking forward to greeting guests as soon as...

France’s Departments

by Lisa LaCount | Sep 28, 2022 | Escape to the Chateau, Escape to the Chateau DIY Episode Recap, Escape to the OTHER DIY Château, Living in France, Travel to France

If you are not familiar with the Départments of France, they were created during the Napoleonic era when there were 101 administrative capitals which were all established at a distance of one day’s horse ride from each other. Prior to the Regions merging there were...

4th Nuit des Chateaux

by Lisa LaCount | Sep 27, 2022 | Chateau, Chateau DIY, Escape to the Chateau DIY Episode Recap, Escape to the OTHER DIY Château, Event, Living in France

Mark your calendars for October 22nd and (in some chateaux) October 23rd for the 4th Nuit des Chateaux which began in 2019! This is the 4th time that this event has taken place in France, (as well as on a much smaller scale in Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium and...

The French Love Affair with Lunch

by Lisa LaCount | Sep 27, 2022 | Escape to the Chateau DIY Episode Recap, French Food, Health Eating, Living in France, Living the dream

We live in Normandy and sometimes we forget that our host nation closes for their daily ritual of lunch promptly at 12 noon. We happened to be in the Bricomarche today and we had lost ourselves in the lighting aisle when we were politely reminded that the shop was...

Is the French Countryside too Noisy?!

by Lisa LaCount | May 21, 2020 | Escape to the OTHER DIY Château, Living in France, The Chateau Experience

A few months ago I read an article in thelocal.fr which made me chuckle and reinforced just why I love our French hosts. Undoubtedly it will put a smile on the faces of all the other escapees who have taken up residency in the beautiful countryside of rural France. ...