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Along the Charles River // Biking, geese and rowing
Last Sunday night, to avoid the spleen of this specific night, we wanted to spend time outside. We always see people running, and we wondered “why not us”, and then we really thought about it and... Continue reading »
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Home sweet home // We moved out!
We did it! We’ve moved in a new, nice, calm and sunny flat… Long story short, I love it. I’m so glad we’ve changed, it wasn’t easy. At first we were told it was impossible to break a... Continue reading »
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(Français) Autour de Boston // Etangs, Boston College et pique-nique à Walden Pond
Le beau temps s’installe, l’envie de lézarder au soleil au bord de l’eau aussi. Ça tombe bien, il y a plein de petits étangs, lacs et points d’eau dans et autour de Boston. Sous un soleil... Continue reading »
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On Newbury Street // Shopping, frozen yogurt and public garden
When Manu went alone in Boston for the first time, last September, to do interviews for a job, he brought me pics of the city when he get back from Paris. There were a lot of photos of Newbury... Continue reading »
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Street food // Food Truck, a treat for every taste
I only knew one type of food truck, typical of North of France: the “french fries food truck” (so-called la baraque à frites). We used to stop by when I was young, when we were coming home... Continue reading »
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Mayfair // Harvard Square, Cambridge
Last Sunday, we went to a Mayfair on Harvard Square, in Cambridge. The program was music, food and craft stands. But the main interest was really all the ‘regional’ foods. Midwest stand, or the... Continue reading »
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Hello Mr President // Following the elections from Boston
We listened to the results of the French elections on the radio, through Internet (even if results were given before the legal hour, 8 pm in Paris, on Twitter). It was 2 pm for us, 8 pm in Paris... Continue reading »
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Labor Day // I have my work authorization but I’d like to go on vacation
I’ve eventually get my I-797, a notice telling me that I will receive a I-765, and after that I will receive an authorization of work in the USA. To sum up, it’s not over, but I’m... Continue reading »
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(Français) Veggie Galaxy // Dois-je devenir végétarienne ?
I’m just done with the book Eating Animals, and I don’t want to eat meat anymore. My new guru persuades me that it wasn’t good for me. I already have an history with this kind of... Continue reading »
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Sweat and Cyndi Lauper // I’ve been to a spinning class
A friend asks me to go with her to a spinning class. I hesitate, think NO but say YES. I haven’t any idea about spinning, I don’t even know this word, but I say YES anyway, it’s part of my Code... Continue reading »
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Boston by bike // I have a new bicycle
Cross the streets, hair flying along the wind, looking at buildings… Boston seems a bike-friendly city, with cycling routes. And Boston is so anti-subway (so slow, and so few) that it’s... Continue reading »
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Short visit of Portland // DuckFat
I had some leftover videos after my video about Maine, and I really want to do something with them. Indeed, it would have been to bad not to share this place. If you go by Portland, ME, you... Continue reading »
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Video // 3 days in Maine
The third Monday of April, it’s an holiday in the US, thanks to Patriot’s Day. As good holiday patriots, we enjoyed a 3 days weekend to discover Maine, a northeast state of New England.... Continue reading »
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What did you eat when you were young? // Childhood food memories
We recently invited friends at home for another dinner “à la française”. This time, we made several dishes, some kind of tapas, in order to propose a lot of French specialties: we thought it... Continue reading »
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Cinema // Pop Corn and other habits
Before a movie, in France we see a character called Jean Mineur (Jean the coal miner) with a small ice axe, he’s flying over a train rail towards a theater, and finally hit a target. End of... Continue reading »
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First Easter in the US // Easter Bunny, Peeps and Ham
It’s the first Easter we spent in the US. I’ve totally forgot about this celebration, I didn’t really know when it was. But I saw these Easter Trees in the streets of Boston, it has... Continue reading »
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Coppa, an Italian restaurant // South End, Boston
South End is a very cute and nice neighborhood: streets of red-bricks buildings; I really like them! In every corner, we can find restaurants ‘chic and cool’. In Paris, we would call this... Continue reading »
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Allston // Tour of our neighborhood
Here they are some pictures of our neighborhood, village or city, I still didn’t have figure out what really meant Allston, usually said adding the name Brighton. Anyway, there are two areas... Continue reading »
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Life as an expatriate // Becoming a Cheap Bastard
We had to live the last week of March as ‘Cheap Bastards’. We spent carelessly our money by going out: restaurants, bars and so on… In fact, I don’t really know how or why,... Continue reading »
