Fresh flowers and fresh perspectives. Photo: at a strawberry, wine, and olive-oil vendor's in Tulette.
ravissant (rah-vee-sahn)
: lovely
also ravissante (rah-vee-sahnt)
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Charlotte est revenue hier! Elle était ravissante! Charlotte came back yesterday. She looked lovely!
A DAY IN A FRENCH LIFE… by Kristin Espinasse
Last November, I began a personal challenge to "Publish a Book in 21 days"! In order to complete the ambitious project, I asked readers to help edit three stories three times per week. Though I failed to meet the publishing deadline, the book was compiled in 21 days (it took an extra two weeks to see it online at Amazon). As painful as the process was (!!!), I reached a goal, one that had been swept back into the corner along with other neglected dreams.
The current book project is coming together. On Monday, we made it to the one-third mark! But the pace is slackening today, with only one story to edit. It is titled "ravissant". If you like, you can proofread it here.
A cool street sign in Toulon. How would you like to live on a Why Not street? What's another interesting street name? Back home in Arizona, I once lived on Never Mind Trail…. To share a funny street name, or to comment on any item in this edition, click here.
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Bonjour,
How very colorful, but are you folks making these things up?. Thought sure my aunt Sherry’s off-and-on address of “Lick-Skillet Road” in rural Ohio would be the most embarrassing if not the funniest street name. But it’s nowhere near Ragged Ass Road or Wacky Nut Way, to say nothing of Skunk Misery Road! Can’t you just imagine placing mail orders by telephone, and dreading to say the mailing address out loud. Time to move, or get a post office box!
Bonne chance with the writing project!
Linda Frederick, Columbus Ohio
Hi Kristin
I think it was in Saint-Martin that we came up a street called “rue du bout du monde”. It was in a very remote area indeed. I loved it.
Years ago we nearly bought a house on Tater Peeler Road. I liked the house but I loved the street name, and was kind of disappointed when we decided to buy a different house on a road with a boring name.
Judy, Tennessee
Here in suburban Melbourne, Australia, is a street with the shortest name of all – Y Street! Obviously named for its shape. Another relative lives in Bent Street, which is kind of like Y Street minus one arm.
In Galveston, Texas: Avenue P-1/2!
KRISTI –
REMEMBER = RUE DE LA PAIX – MY STREET WHEN I LIVED IN LES ARCS SUR ARGENS.
XOXO
MOM
Here in Bloomington, Indiana, USA, we have a nearby road called That Road. Over in Brown County is one called Scarce of Fat Road. It’s pretty rural over there…
In the 70s in San Francisco we all liked to troop over to Roach Alley and take photos of ourselves pretending (I swear) to smoke a joint.
I am new to your site, but enjoy it a lot. I would llike to email you but only get Google where I don’t want an account. I’d like to know exactly where you are in France in case I get near there, information about your wines and how to find them in the USA. This seems to be the only way to contact you. SVP, responder.
For street names, in Chicago there is a Hooker Street and Couch Court.
Kristin, La photo des fleurs est ravissant! Mon jardin est le plus beau maintenant. Je souhaite le printemps duré plus longtemps. Il part trop tôt!
My address in Sauve is 3 Chemin de la Source. I love the sound of that and literally the way you can hear the source flowing from the mountain!
My book is progressing quickly. If you have a moment, I would love to hear your comments!
Bises, Alison
My favorite street in Paris is “Rue du chat-qui-pèche” Street of the cat who fishes. It’s really just a narrow alley, but it has a great mural painted on the wall of…a cat fishing! (And a man holding an umbrella over the cat).
I work at a call center and so I see addresses from the many customers in our data base. To date, my favorite street name
is Gohper Broke Lane. I never thought to note where it was located.
In 2010 I lived in Paris for the summer. Right around the corner from my apartment in the Latin Quarter was the street described two posts up – Rue du chat qui peche. I thought it was cute!
Hi Kristin,
I love the photo! We haven’t lived on any weird or funny streets but we almost bought a house in a town called Bumpass, VA.
In 2003, we once lunched in a bar-café- tabac named Le Pourquoi Pas in Andouillé-Neuville between Rennes and Mont St. Michel. I am sure business improved as folks came to hear what M. le propriataire had to say about les americains! One of his buddies (he and they were senior citizens) mumbled something of which I could only catch “Président Bush.” Remember this is 2003, and he was NOT popular in Europe. So I said, “Et vous les françaises, vous êtes toujours en accord avec votre président, n’est-ce pas?” And they all laughed! One of the times I was SO GLAD I could speak French!
What fun to read about all these street names! I don’t recall living near any really funny ones, but I did see an address yesterday at work that was Poppasquash Rd. I thought that was pretty cute. I’ll keep thinking…
Thanks for sharing everyone!
Dick’s Dam Road in PA makes us laugh and my friends Uncle Dick had a good chuckle over it too!
In Louisiana, street signs are made by prisoners – some with a sense of humor.
So, I have two funny street names for you. One, located along Lake Pontchartrain in Slidell, Louisiana; Rat Nests Road. The other came to me by way of a reader, who called my office one day and invited me to see her new street sign. After giving general directions she added, “You’ll know the street when you see it.” So, I traveled down Bayou Liberty Road until I found the sign in question.
Formerly, my reader had lived on Little School House Road corner Bayou Liberty Road but, the name on the new, smaller sign read: Little S House Road.
In an update, a few years ago I was in Paris and went to find my favorite street and mural. Morbleu! There was some renovation of the building and the mural is gone!! Glad I immortalized it in a photo.