Post card from France 1992

On Xmas day 1992, suburb of Paris

I had visited France number of times with my partner for weekend trips to help him fill his car with wine bottles and eat the French sea food on the costal region of Normandy. After our long trip to Loire Valley last year we decided to spend our Christmas of 1992 in Paris.

 

In the suburb of Paris where we stayed for 3 nights, it was such a joy to be able to shop for Xmas gifts, buy fresh oysters for our lunch (eaten like fish and chips from a cardboard box)  and watch the French people walking away with their Xmas trees on Xmas day, certainly different from the life back home.

In France fresh oysters are popular on Xmas day and given as gifts to families and duck is served as a main meal, can't be bad?

 

From Paris we drove all the way to Montpellier, for the sun and to see if Montpellier looked anything like the suburb of Cheltenham with similar name? It didn’t.  My partner loved the French sea food and taught me a great deal about the whole eating habits of the French people. His love for French wine was also a help for me to enjoy a glass or two, but I failed to pick up any of the spoken A level French he practiced so well when we visited France; sadly Xmas 1992 was our last trip together to beautiful France.