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King Cake – For Real This Time!

Posted in Bath, China, Chinese New Year, Cooking, Cultural differences, Cultures, Traditions on January 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »

A few of you may remember in September last year I posted about the tradition involving King Cake.  It’s a cake that is eaten on Epiphany, which is the 6th of January (so obviously is usually a Christian tradition – although I’m not necessarily religious, I just like cake).  A figurine is hidden inside the [...]

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King Cake

Posted in Cooking, Cultural differences, Cultures, France, Recipes, Traditions on September 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about a plum tart I made, which started a discussion (look at the comments on the plum tart post) about the tradition of making and eating (well, mainly the tradition of eating) King cake. Wikipedia has an interesting entry all about the different cakes and practices in [...]

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Storms

Posted in Cultures, Egypt, Flashback, France, India on August 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »

One of the things I like about the Mediterranean climate is the weather. Obviously, yes, it’s sunny – about 300 days a year on average. But what I almost prefer are the storms. You occasionally get a dreary drizzle like in the UK, but more often during the summer you get spectacular [...]

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Blasé attitude?

Posted in Cultural differences, Cultures, TCK on January 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Last night I got into a discussion with a couple of family members about our attitude to cultural differences. Obviously being a family of ATCKs/highly mobile parents, we have no problem with cultural differences – in fact that’s one of the main reasons for moving around overseas. But what we were discussing was [...]

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Christmas among cultures

Posted in Belgium, Christmas, Cultures, France on January 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The holiday season is beginning to draw to a close, and I hope you’ve all passed a good Christmas with family/friends/whoever you spent the period with! I’ve been with family and I’ll be heading off to France (or at least a different part of it since I’m already in France) sometime around the middle [...]

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Temporary constancy

Posted in Belgium, Christmas, Cultures, France, Moving on December 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »

I am now back ‘home’ for the Christmas and New Year holidays. I’ll be spending some time in the south of France and then hopefully some time skiing in the Alps in early January, before going to look for accommodation (amongst other things) in Annecy, France, my next abode.
On my last night in Liege, [...]

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