Tourteau Fromage de Tradition

 You guys...I love my outdoor markets so much, it's almost painful.

How adorable is this little guy helping his maman at their goat cheese and egg stand?!

Do not judge this bread by its blackened exterior.  Imagine cheese cake in bread form.  That is Tourteau Fromage de Tradition.  And I bought it and ate the entire thing before nightfall.  Oops.

Cute little man at the stand enlightened me today about pomegranates.  They're best when they're hard and heavy!  Good to know...this is exactly why I love these markets and these people...

Musee de la Resistance

We went to le Musee de la Resistance (a museum about Blois' role in World War II) today and saw what our city looked like post-war.

Here's the famous bridge in town, first in 1942 and then in 2012.

Neat WWII bike.

Le Castelet

 Finally tried this award winning restaurant!

 Goat cheese and cucumber yogurt with gingerbread toast.

Beef hunk (?) with potatoes and carrots.

Creme brulee...never looks as good as it actually tastes.

"America is my country and Paris is my hometown." Gertrude Stein

ALEXANDRA ZIRPOLO CAME TO PARIS and we had a fabulous time.  And now I miss everyone oh so much!!

Polo and me at Montmartre.  Delta Lovin' at its finest.

The view of Sacre Couer from L'Arc de Triomphe.

Will, Polo and me on L'Arc de Triomphe.

Come back!!!

Les Elections Francaises

The French are also in the midst of an election year, but think much shorter and less, uhm, messy than American elections.

The battle is between Sarkozy (the current President) and Francois Hollande.  Monsieur Hollande gave a little campaign rally here and I came across the gathering on my walk home.

"I am learning to see." Rainer Maria Rilke

A different view of Blois from the top of one of our many hills.  Looking through a hotel gate.

"I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're gonna do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present." John Green

 Bonjour, April!

April.  Already?  I can't quite wrap my head around this time vortex known as France.  With three weeks left of teaching, and four weeks as an official French resident,  April's goal is to be as present as possible.  To relish every detail, big and small.