It's pretty easy to blend in as an American in Australia. There isn't much culture shock, and it doesn't really feel like I'm half-the-world away from home.
After I went on a hunt to find a pie tin to make an apple pie from scratch and got hit...
For starters, the food isn't anything worth being thankful for. Cranberry sauce out of can--either whole or jellied--just wouldn't cut it next to fresh confiture. Oven-warmed rolls don't stand a chance against a baguette, fresh from the boulangère....
I doubt there's an account of an American woman braving a year in Paris or Provence that I haven't read. Before I embarked on a similar journey, I lived vicariously through these memoirs of falling in love with the French lifestyle (and perhaps a...
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Christine Amorose Merrill
C'est Christine is my little slice of the internet to talk travel, lifestyle and twenty- and thirty-something struggles. After stints living in France, Australia and NYC and lots of (often solo!) travel around the world, I currently live in San Diego with my husband, daughter and two pugs.