Month: August 2010
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Brocante Bugs Discoveries in the Cornfields
Photos and text by Corey Amaro How to fill a van with one million grains of corn little brocante things. Easy! Wake up before the rooster crows. Run around like a chicken with her head cut off, crow every time…
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Brocanting with a Beautiful Man
Photo and text by Corey Amaro We found many old, wonderful, brocante things yesterday. We ran out of room in the van to stuff in another ribbon let alone the carved piece of gilded wood, nor did we have…
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My Favorite Brocantes is in a Corn Field
My friend Natalie (La Madone) and I are doing our annual thing… The Brocante Bug Dance in a corn field. We left for the Brocante fair yesterday morning with seven million other European vacationers returning home on the freeway! Several…
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How to Reconize the Brocante Bug
Text and photo by: Corey Amaro How to recognize the brocante bug: The person infected with the brocante bug usually is not in bed sleeping on a Saturday or Sunday morning. Their homes have a certain old look about them.…
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An American Climbs a Tree, a French Person Checks the Soil
Text by Corey Amaro: Someone once told me that the difference between a French person and an American person could be summarized like this: “If you put a French person and an American person in the middle of a dense…
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Some of the Differences Between France and America
Text and photos by Corey Amaro. What are the subtle differences between French and Americans? I am an American, my husband is French. I moved to France when I was thirty years old and have lived here for 22 years.…