Tamara Thiessen Travels

19/07/2025

Bonsoir Strasbourg. En arrivant de Paris, je retrouve une autre ville lumière ✨️

18/07/2025

Heading to France for wine appreciation? (Who isn't?) Careful not to fall into my trap and find the local supermarket booze section walled off on a Sunday afternoon. It's nothing to do with religion. My story in the link explains why.

18/07/2025

Up until 1956, French schoolchildren were encouraged to drink half a litre of wine over lunch at the canteen! It sure puts a new twist on wine tasting in France. (This girl is probably waiting outside the headmistress's office ... for a reward.) In all seriousness, the hangover may be a blasé attitude today to selling alcohol to children. Over 85% of supermarkets and 97% of bars do so, says Addictions France.

Association Addictions France

11/07/2025

Is this a joke? The author's name for a book on baking?😄 Believe it or not, it's not!

02/07/2025

Even the turtles are thirsty in this weather in Paris.

01/07/2025

Four years after writing this story, the dog p**p situation in France is worse not better! The signs have fallen on deaf ears. There have been deaths and threats for trying to force civility. What does it say about the French, do you think? M***e I say!

More p**py-posts to come soon ... and some funny photos! As I perilously negotiate the sh*tville streets of Greater Paris (Paris je t'aime pas toujours!)

Incivility, irresponsibility, laziness, lack of political oomph, all of the above. Dog p**p in France, particularly Paris, is a catastrophe.

29/06/2025

Join the continuing adventures of Tamara, a downright French Tart.

Sweet dreams at the French bakery. It's guaranteed. Every trip to a bakery in France is just that – a delicious dream.

28/06/2025

What a difference a week makes. The aqueduct greenway in my Greater Paris neighbourhood on June 20 and today – after a 2 week ongoing heatwave in France ... 39°C (102°F) on Tuesday and Wednesday.