#French word of the day plus
French soap opera fans are very sad as after 18 years on TV, France Television will no longer produce the series “ Plus Belle la vie“, meaning “most beautiful life”. The series follows the daily lives of the residents of a fictional neighbourhood in the Mediterranean city of Marseille.(In case you were wondering, LREM stands for “ La République en marche” with the EM at the end basically being Macron’s initials. We haven’t forgotten the post-election hullabaloo entirely: winning President Macron has decided to change the name of his party from LREM to Renaissance.If you do decide to go on a roadtrip around France, holidaymakers are advised to check online or download a digital app called “ bison futé” that advises when they are going to be stuck in traffic, aka “ les embouteillages“. (The train going down south is sadly is not called “ voies ferrées de soleil“, so we can all just ignore that as an idea.)
Usually, everybody hits the road at the same time, so you have this mad rush of traffic leaving Paris and usually heading south on the “ Autoroute de Soleil“, meaning “highway of the sun”. All that demand has led to what seems like a huge increase in vehicles on the road, which gets worse around the holidays. Now, it may sound like all fun and games, but there is one big problem: the traffic.
It was French school holidays again (let’s face it, when is it not school holidays?) So we’ve been in the south of France visiting family and doing mildly touristy things, while eating and drinking rosé in the (almost) summer sun. Printemps! Or rather, springtime in France, what could be better! The clouds are drifting away, the covid cases are falling and the streets are filled with foreign visitors again, after 2 years of restrictions. All information provided is for entertainment purposes only, see our disclosure policy.) (As an Amazon affiliate, we may earn commissions on purchases.
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