Rita Selles
Bûches de Noël-Last Pastry Class
In the past two weeks I've been peeking in at every bakery/pastry shop I walk by to see their Christmas Logs or Bûches de Noël. It is the...
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Rita Selles
- Dec 7, 2019
- 1 min
Sustainable Christmas Market
The sustainable Christmas market features fair trade vendors from Africa, Palestine, India, and other countries, as well as local...
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Rita Selles
- Dec 2, 2019
- 4 min
Pastry Class #4 Fruit Tarts and the "Chocolate Success"
Today we made one of my favorite French desserts: the succès au chocolat or "the chocolate success". It was invented by pastry chef...
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Rita Selles
- Nov 25, 2019
- 2 min
Christmas Market
The Christmas markets or marchés de Noël are in full swing in Grenoble. With Christmas music and lots of lights, the mood is festive. The...
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Rita Selles
- Nov 2, 2019
- 4 min
Cairo, Egypt
With a population of 22 million and a week to visit our daughter in this remarkable city, the following pictures give only a glimpse of...
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Rita Selles
- Oct 22, 2019
- 1 min
Cafés
Like bakeries, there are so many cafés to choose from. I have not become a regular at any one café in town, probably because our...
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Rita Selles
- Oct 21, 2019
- 2 min
Street Scenes
The making of a modern day cobble stone street. Art work and precision! Doors of Lyon "Do not go on the grass"—in a park Self-serve bike...
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Rita Selles
- Oct 16, 2019
- 1 min
Doors of Grenoble
More accurately, these are the doors to apartments on one street in Grenoble—the street Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The street is named after...
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Rita Selles
- Oct 10, 2019
- 5 min
Paris, Pastries and More
So this is the question: How do you capture this city in a blog post? I could focus on monuments or cafés, or restaurants, or people, or...
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Rita Selles
- Oct 2, 2019
- 4 min
Pastry Class #1:Chocolate and Raspberries
When you look at beautiful pastries displayed in a pastry shop I wonder what kind of space they were made in and of course, the a-z of...
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Rita Selles
- Oct 1, 2019
- 2 min
The Sweet Side of Budapest, Hungary
Visiting another city or country always involves, at least for me, going into grocery stores and bakeries. We were visiting friends for...
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Rita Selles
- Sep 22, 2019
- 2 min
Lyon
Lyon, France's second largest city and capital of the region we live in (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes), is located on the junction of two rivers,...
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Rita Selles
- Sep 20, 2019
- 2 min
Hike in the Chartreuse mountains
Chamechaude is the highest summit in the Chartreuse Massif and the fourth most prominent mountain in France. This one is practically in...
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Rita Selles
- Sep 16, 2019
- 2 min
Hiking in the Vercors
Grenoble is surrounded by three mountain ranges: the Vercors, the Chartreuse Mountains, and the Belledonne. Grenoble and its environs has...
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Rita Selles
- Sep 11, 2019
- 1 min
A walk in the Park
For an apartment dweller, a park is a beautiful thing! It becomes your back yard where you read your book, talk on your phone, meet up...
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Rita Selles
- Sep 8, 2019
- 1 min
Grenoble at a glance
These pictures are courtesy Otto Selles who captured a wide view of the city when we arrived. The city of Grenoble is very flat but...
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Rita Selles
- Sep 8, 2019
- 2 min
A day in the Chartreuse Mountains
Our day started early to catch an 8:30 bus to a mountain range--the Chartreuse mountains, about 25k from Grenoble. In a short time we...
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Rita Selles
- Sep 5, 2019
- 1 min
English?
Advertisements have often had English words on them, but now you will find shops/restaurants with English names as well.
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Rita Selles
- Sep 4, 2019
- 1 min
Vizille
The plan for the day was to visit the Domaine de Vizille, a majestic castle situated on a very large park at the foot of the Alps. The...
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