I want to send Happy Thanksgiving wishes to all the confined, quarantined, locked-down, locked-up, or just fed-up among you. We have much to be grateful for here in Beaune, in spite of le confinement, and we hope you do too!
In le confinement one is permitted to take a stroll 1 km (1/2) mile from one's house. So we have been taking our promenade on the ramparts, in town, and in the vineyards, and drinking in the heady colors of l'autome. Take a brief repose from an anxiety-inducing year and come along with us to see Beaune in autumn.
In the COMMENTS: Francine, j'adore le château de Couches. Claudia, hope you make it back soon. Ellen has a good trick for cooking salmon that I've been meaning to try. And going back to our post on tea, Sandi has some strong feelings about her tea, along with some good suggestions.
Favorite Reads: Karen McCann's blog. She's a expat in Spain and she's always funny, and she does a really witty take on Thanksgiving this year. Meanwhile, over at the French Word a Day blog, Kristi is taking a fall hike as well, and she and Jean-Marc have a new memoir, The Lost Gardens. Also check out A Small Village in France, where Susan and Tom share their funny "confinement" map. Natalia shares 2 books by B.A. Shapiro: The Muralist and The Collector's Apprentice. And for all our readers who are book lovers: on my gift list for book-loving friends is Bibliophile, a fun, illustrated book about books.
To watch: Colleen recommends Billy Crystals 700 Sundays, and Anne mentions Escape to the Château on PBS.
