Bonjour!
I’m Sara, I live in Melbourne when not renovating an 18th century former Auberge in Normandy, but am hopeful of one day becoming a country mouse and writing from the middle of a vineyard in France and spending my weekends in Paris.
Thank you for stopping by, for a little interior design inspiration, architecture, travel, good food, wine, fashion and all things France and French.
xxS
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Lifestyle
‘…never go too long without watching a Sunset.’
Atticus
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Maison
It’s most lovely, very solid & simple, with flat walls in that lovely mixture of brick & flint that they use about here, & perfectly flat windows in the walls & wonderful tiled roofs. The pond is most beautiful with a willow at one side & a stone – or flint – wall edging it all round the garden part, & a little lawn sloping down to it, with formal bushes on it. Then there’s a small orchard & the walled garden…& another lawn or bit of field railed in beyond. There’s a wall of trees – one single line of elms all round two sides which shelters us from west winds.
Letter from Vanessa Bell to Roger Fry about Charleston Farmhouse around WW1
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Travel
‘The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if ones takes the time to be friendly.’
Julia Child
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Stay
‘When I dream of afterlife in heaven, the action always takes place in the Paris Ritz.’
Ernest Hemingway
