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Thanksgiving in France

The family and I celebrated another Thanksgiving in France. Due to working Thursday, we celebrated during the weekend following the official holiday.
This year was rather special; we traveled to the South of France to Isle sur la Sorgue, near Avignon. We did this because we wanted to spend Thanksgiving with an American living there – Robyn Vogel. Robin moved with her family, French husband and daughter (they now have two) from New York. Her husband - Philippe Leyris is a pastry chef so they bought a bakery in Isle sur la Sorgue. Talk about going native!
Their bakery is in the center of Isle sur la Sorgue, just down the street from the town hall on rue Carnot.
As has now become our tradition we ate a 'Dinde de Bresse' – a turkey from the Bresse region of France. The Bresse region is renowned for its poultry most notably its 'Poulet de Bresse' - Bresse Chicken. Well its turkey is not that bad either. It might be smaller than what I'm used to in America but the taste might just be better. The turkey was farm raised and fed natural products.
Interestingly enough it is now possible to get just about all the Thanksgiving trimmings, except for cranberries in France. Our table looked like any American's, maybe with the exception of an over abundance of bread!

Holidays

Well it's that time of year again and France also proves once again how festive it is. The town where I live – La Roche sur Foron has set up an ice skating ring. It's under the 'Grenette' the once a grain market. For three euros you can skate for half an hour – ice skates included! Just next door there will be a Christmas market starting the second week of December. The local church will have a gospel concert. The French sure know how to enjoy themselves.

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