Category Archives: Europe Hosting a dinner party is hard work. Hosting a vegetarian dinner party is a test of creativity. Hosting a vegetarian dinner party for a group of French people is a cultural education like no other. Here, I describe the must-have ingredients, speed, and flow of a successful French lunch party.  Bruno and I had loads of tourism plans to break up the monotony and work of our three months in France. We didn’t do a single one of them. Instead, we did something entirely un-nomadic: we fostered a community.  I am soooooooo ready to leave France now. I know I don’t have a right to complain, since my regular life is luxuriously free of work and responsibility. Maybe that’s why I can no longer manage the life we’ve been leading these past 2.5 months. I’ve gone soft. I can’t handle it. I just want to jump in Totoyaya and take off toward the horizon!  After spending the past few months living in the south of France, I have acquired quite a repertoire of hilariously uncomfortable cultural moments. From linguistic misunderstandings to greeting insecurities, from culinary faux-pas to political foot-in-mouth statements, it’s safe to say that even in France a Canadian will experience culture shock!  “Just don’t make me get my truck driver’s license,” said Bruno every time we daydreamed about our future Totoyata-replacing overland vehicle. If I’d known exactly what the process of getting that infernal truck driver’s license actually involved in France, I’d have listened to him. |
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