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Alambic distilling... an outlawed science?... a dying art? Full story - click here?

The Last Waters of Life
Making moonshine is illegal almost everywhere. However in France, if you can find an itinerant distiller, you can still enjoy the fruits of your labour in a spirit-warming form. But for how much longer...?

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Wine
An American expatriate family take on the French at their own game

O'Vineyards - Languedoc Roussillion
"Let them eat wine bread... anything goes, as long as it avoids archetypal wine snobbery"... just one the reasons to read expat Ryan O'Connell's story of his Languedoc Domaine - O'Vineyards.

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Lifestyle Briefs
 
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Lifestyle - Food
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Wine
Need a break? How about a tree house in deepest France? Grumpy Gardener Mike took his daughter on a surprise birthday treat! Read on...click here
The first snowdrops lifts the mood of our Grumpy Gardener - full story, click here
Another delicious recipe - click here to view
Odile de Changy Lingerie, Paris - click for full story
Expat winemakers in the Languedoc - click here for full story
  Tree House Break
Taking time out from his regular column, our Grumpy Gardener, takes a family break in a tree house and yes he left all the tools of the trade behind him.
Full Story - click here		   If Winter Comes...
... can Spring be far behind? Our Grumpy Gardener waxes lyrical as the first snowdrops lift his winter mood as he contemplates the February garden.
Full Story - click here		   Baby Turnips and...
Cherry Vodka! What can they possibly have in common? Not much really, unless you add lots of other ingredients and neatly package them into delicious recipes...
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Odile de Changy
A new Paris boutique lifts creamy curtains to the line of classically beautiful lingerie by Odile de Changy. "I make lingerie for women, not men". .
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Domaine Jones
Expat Katie Jones is making a name for herself as a winemaker... and she is just one of a group of Languedoc vineyard owners now known as... The Outsiders
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Marry the Night
The new Lady Gaga video to launch her "Marry the Night" single. Fact is, she doesn't start singing until after half way through! Worth waiting for? You be the judge...
Watch the video - click here		 Book Reviews
Contributors, The Aveyron Book Group, review two books for French News Online this month - Peter Bowles'Sheltering Sky and Sarah Hall's, The Carhullan Army
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Looking for a lifestyle change? Want to move to France and have an income? This Toulouse based specialist, sells gites and bed and breakfasts
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