Stories Collected While Living in France

French la Vie

A French Story of Food and Romance

French_dessert

In France it always starts with food.

Moped

Which you can buy on any street corner.  Buy a French baguette, a hunk of cheese, and a box of Medoc wine  and attach it to a moped.  Picnic a go-go.

French_man

Beauty is everywhere in France even at the back of a restaurant. How would you like this hunk of Cheese? It gives a new twist to "Take Out" food.

"Bonjour! Je m’appel Take me Home." (He is for you Nancy and Delphine, two friends who leave comments on this blog.)

Savon_marseille

(French souvenirs… Soap.  Keep it clean Corey!)

Wrought_iron_chair

A French Story of Food and Romance here is how it goes:

The young tourist came to France. She jumped on a moped, taking a spin to the backside of a restaurant. There she met her knight in a white apron. He grabbed the dessert (or was the dessert!) and they rode to his backyard and had a picnic.

Happy Saturday.

Photos: Around where I live.

Comments

45 responses to “A French Story of Food and Romance”

  1. marita

    ‘déjeuner sur l ‘herbe’ by edouard manet!!! i would definitely join somewhere in a beautiful provence garden…

    Reply
  2. Hasmin

    Can I say, D-E-L-I-S-H?!!! (sigh) 🙂

    Reply
  3. Jeanne

    Life in France sounds enchanting. Thank you for taking me along on your journeys. I love it.
    Love Jeanne

    Reply
  4. ParisBreakfasts

    souper – soap
    hope – mope-ped
    coupe do marron – she’s no dope
    She can cope
    In any language
    while skipping rope!

    Reply
  5. tinker

    hee hee 🙂

    Reply
  6. Beverly

    Is there a man in France who couldn’t grace a magazine cover? Really?
    What an enchanted life you lead…fresh bread, cheese and wine and a picnic date with a French man speaking the language of love!
    What a life!

    Reply
  7. Lorie

    Yes Mam! I’ll have one!

    Reply
  8. tut-tut

    Bon appetit!

    Reply
  9. happycalm

    Signing in early (6:44 AM) Saturday morning from Northern California.
    Corey, I’m happily married, but oooo la la what a lovely eye-candy-eye-opener in the white apron. Thank you for the smile! And bless you for the riches of love you provide for me every day.

    Reply
  10. delphine

    Here we were innocently taking a “blog balade” before going out to buy a gift for a friend’s b-day…when….lo and behold.. the lovely Madame Corey, gave us a little mention. (okay, not just a mention but a photo as well…yeah, he,s good looking)! Kiss you and hug you…and we are charmed! And Corey they say that laughing makes you live longer, you are making sure we live past 100!
    Lovely post, is this based on a true story?
    delphine and nancy

    Reply
  11. rochambeau

    Delicious Frenchman, Delicious (clean) story.
    ps
    I love picnics!

    Reply
  12. cruststation

    Je voudrais un dessert français svp!

    Reply
  13. Mari-Nanci

    He WAS the dessert, of course!
    ^_^
    Mari-Nanci

    Reply
  14. Dee

    I’m breathless!

    Reply
  15. Colette

    I did that in Italy, minus the moped. When I was much younger… A bag of luscious black figs, fresh mozzarella, and bread.
    La vita é bella!

    Reply
  16. Elizabeth

    Corey, my french is very limited, but I think that “OOOO, LA-LA!” fits this picnic-with-dessert very well!! Oh, and I know, “Oui, monsour”, (not spelled right!), which might fit here, too. (Just in case my husband accidentally reads this: that’s if I weren’t happily married, dear! LOL) Still…lovely eye candy…he POSED for you!

    Reply
  17. Mo’a

    Wonderful eye candy ;> I love the reflection in the vine glass and the spoon on the first photo…*sigh*

    Reply
  18. Amy

    I’m afraid I can never come to France. I’d be spending all of my money in restaurants just to keep men who look like that coming back to check on me. LOL
    I’d have to leave the driving to somebody else. Me on a moped? Yikes.

    Reply
  19. stuffed

    Cute! :0)

    Reply
  20. ~jolenemarie

    All of a sudden I am craving a hunk of ‘cheese’ 😉

    Reply
  21. Elaine L.

    Ahhhhh, France truly is a very enchanted place!
    ~elaine~

    Reply
  22. Karin

    I’ll take one of You-in-the-black-apron to go, please. And if MY husband is reading this, you’re getting an apron for Christmas. 🙂
    _____________________________
    Every women should have a supply of aprons,lol! Funny response Karin!

    Reply
  23. maddie

    I covet that MOPED!!! Forget the cheese!

    Reply
  24. Ellen Cassilly

    I loved the tale, Corey.
    Your video selection is very timely. Tomorrow I’m hosting a croquet party for fourty. I’ll send pictures. Ellen

    Reply
  25. beachy

    There aren’t any hunks of cheese at the back of any restaurants around these parts!!! Darn!

    Reply
  26. pusa

    wow! french guys are really hot! didnt realized that till i frequent your blog.

    Reply
  27. Lilie

    mmmm, yes please! i’m flying to paris next month — i hope this fairytale comes true for me 🙂

    Reply
  28. Rosemary

    I love it Corey, and what a hunk of cheese.
    Thanks for sharing, so we can live through you.
    Have a fun weekend!
    Rosemary

    Reply
  29. susanna

    C’est un Samedi parfait. 🙂

    Reply
  30. tommiea

    now that is hunk of cheese! what a fun post Corey….especially on a day when I am in the dumps! Thanks for putting a little smile on my lips.

    Reply
  31. Donna O.

    Corey-is this why you’ve become a photographer ih France? So you can say
    “Cheese” all the time and get away with it??
    D.
    ___________________________
    Donna are you sure you are not hiding something behind that crown of yours? Comedy is so you!

    Reply
  32. Diana

    I am SO moving to France!! 🙂

    Reply
  33. Caffienated Cowgirl

    Oh my! I would stop at the shop!!!

    Reply
  34. Kitem

    I loved the Impressionists’s Picnic.

    Reply
  35. Heidi Malott

    Beautiful pictures! Thank you for todays “journey”, very lovely!

    Reply
  36. Linda Harre

    You are so funny! Love it!!!!!

    Reply
  37. lindsay

    Quite a hunk of cheese indeed! Aged to perfection I’d say 🙂

    Reply
  38. Teresa

    I would take a hunk of that cheese, if I were 18 again 🙂 Thanks for all your photos, it makes me feel like I was there.
    Teresa

    Reply
  39. AnnieElf

    What a fun post, Corey. And yes, that fellow is a very nice hunka cheese. Love Savon de marseille soaps. My favorite.

    Reply
  40. Mari-Noëlle

    As I am using my old computer (my main one being infected by a bug), I have no ‘favourites’ and I have to type my links whenever I want to get connected to them.
    I read this post of yours last week, and yesterday morning, I wanted to go and read it again. Having that “hunk of cheese” on mind, I typed “Tongue in Cheese” in the search bar…
    Of course, I ended up elsewhere and when I finally saw my mistake, I found it funny and wanted to use this lapsus in my comment.
    If your readers read “Tongue in Cheese” without knowing the whole story of my using the expression, could they misunderstand it and held it as rude, especially as the cheese is a man on your blog? see what I mean….
    Here is my comment (erase it if necessary): Thank you for the picnic, madame “Tongue in Cheese” !!!
    cheese… oops… I mean cheers xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    Reply
  41. tlchang

    Yum! On so many levels! 🙂

    Reply
  42. Darlene

    Holy Cow! Are all frenchmen that beautiful?
    I’ve gotta start prowling the back allies of restaurants!

    Reply
  43. stephanie

    Oh, you can be wickedly delightful!!!

    Reply
  44. Abbie

    oh good lord.. the scenery there is fabulous!!
    😉

    Reply
  45. Suzanne

    Totally agree on your favorite “take out” restaurant employee!!! 🙂

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Privacy Policy - Terms and Conditions