Loulabelle’s FrancoFiles

www.loulabellesfrancofiles.com I loved connecting with Ruby Boukabou again in this podcast episode! She has such an amazing energy! I always leave a chat with Ruby feeling like I can take on the world and simultaneously that I've had a beautiful Parisian experience. In this chat Ruby talked about how she has stayed busy during COVID, from writing her book The Architecture Lover's Guide t...

www.loulabellesfrancofiles.com  I found Krystal Kenney to be beautifully warm . Krystal is an author, a photographer and artist. She has her own podcast and also to provides us all with some wonderful online live Paris tours. Now Krystal is based in Paris full-time, living in the 18th arr of Montmartre and loving it!  Krystal's memoir, Paris, A Life Less Ordinary describes her journey to the...

www.loulabellesfrancofiles.com Way way back in LFF episode 2 we were all introduced to some terrific music by an unknown musician Romain Dupré who is also an old school friend of our favourite French correspondent Sarah Zwick. Romain Dupré chatted to me in this episode about his life in France, about how Paris is changing through this COVID period, and about his hopes for helping his community to...

www.loulabellesfrancofiles.com Claudine Hemingway knows Paris. Like she REALLY knows Paris! Part of the Hemingway family, Claudine chats with Lou about her Parisian stories and shares some fascinating history of the French capital as well as painting a picture so real that we feel like we've been on vacation to our fave destination!   In this episode amongst other treats, we hear the real lif...

www.loulabellesfrancofiles.com Explore the fascinating world of Paris rooftop photography and dream of future ramblings in France. Jeremy Pritchard is a Parisian photographer, taking shots of the real Paris world from a rooftop perspective. This lovely authentic chat with Jeremy uncovers a side of Paris most of us never see. He also talks of his go-to petit déjeuner and shares one of his favourite...

www.loulabellesfrancofiles.com Hear a warm , sweet chat with Loulabelle's darling cousin and dear friend Anne Lock about a "grandes vacances" our family took in 2015 to France. Twenty of us met for a week in Paris and then most of us travelled for an extra week to the quaint village of Chinon in the Loire Valley. Chinon is a place steeped in history and for the most part seems fairl...

www.loulabellesfrancofiles.com My gorgeous friend Karen Grooby has travelled with me in France a number of times.  In LFF episode 4 we chatted about one weekend we shared where we worked through a list Karen made of all the places to drink champagne in Paris! Karen is quite brilliant with her research and I have benefitted from it a bunch of times. She also has some general tips for travelers to P...

www.loulabellesfrancofiles.com Loulabelle chats to the remarkable Debi Lilly who is an amazing award winning event planner, florist and major francophile living in Chicago about how she keeps France beating in her heart when she's not there! Debi has French inspired businesses in Chicago and Nantucket in the US, but also paints a beautiful dream like escape for us to a vacation of France we c...

www.loulabellesfrancofiles.com Want the low down on the real French life for Emily in Paris? Then join us for this wonderful warm chat with Emily and the world of the 6th arrondissement! When the TV series Emily in Paris started, Lou's guest in this podcast started getting texts first in a trickle and then in a tidal wave! The show was about her life! Or is it? This insightful conversation wi...

www.loulabellesfrancofiles.com Embarking on an exchange to France had always been a dream for Australian teenager Grace McMahon.  She travelled to France for the Aussie Christmas/summer break and stayed in a small town, Melun a half hour drive south of Paris. French was spoken the whole time with only a tiny bit of English which gave her French language skills a huge workout! Grace loved school in...

www.loulabellesfrancofiles.com This is a wonderfully engaging podcast episode that will transport FrancoFilers through space and time to feel you have had a sneak peek at Versailles without the crowds! For as long as I can remember, I have been in awe of the legend and the stories surrounding Versailles. It was wonderful to hear about this magical place from a French local perspective with ma bell...

www.loulabellesfrancofiles.com This is the second episode in a double with Loulabelle's guest being her partner Paul. (The first is episode 16 re: Paris).  Travelling to France in 2018 in pre-COVID times hear about Lou & Paul's vacances in Provence with a week of road-tripping around Avignon.   FrancoFilers may choose to follow the conversation whilst viewing on Google Earth. This ep...

www.loulabellesfrancofiles.com  Want ideas for a week in Paris with  your chéri?  Loulabelle and her partner Paul chat about their first trip to  the "city of love". A visit to Notre Dame and a climb to the spire pre-fire, plus making the most of touristy clichés are both covered in this sweet chat that also includes a visit to artists in Montmartre, lunch at Les Deux Magots, shopping an...

www.loulabellesfrancofiles.com Join Lou and her friends for a very timely chat for the Christmas period.  Meet Rachel Kealy, founder of the Women's Self Defence Network, and host of podcast Knowledge is Your Superpower for some brilliant travel safety tips for trips to France at any time of year, but also for this 2020 Christmas. We also check in with our French correspondent Sarah Zwick, own...

Loulabelle's FrancoFiles www.loulabellesfrancofiles.com On a French immersion trip to the south west of France, in the divinely gorgeous Saint-Jean-de-Luz, an unexpected highlight of the week was the daily early morning yoga class with Louise Godfrey. Louise has been a student and  exceptional teacher of yoga for a couple of decades. We chat with Louise about teaching yoga in French, as well...

www.loulabellesfrancofiles.com Feed your French soul listening to this Loulabelle's chat with Lou and her belle amie Barbara Keenan. Barbara and Lou met when Barb came to Melbourne Australia as an exchange student from Stockton California in 1986. Both were "foodies" as well as Francophiles. In 2018 by chance they were in Paris at the same time and had an early morning coffee rendez...

When I asked Gabriel Gaté if he would chat with me for my podcast, I had no idea of the reception I would get. We have mutual friends, as the French community in Melbourne is small and tight, but I was not prepared for the wonderfully warm and generous person, who could not have been more happy to talk about his life in France, his work, his care for others and la vie quotidienne in general. In th...

Lou and her belle amie Sarah Zwick discuss French iconic designer Coco Chanel. She was a personal favourite for Sarah growing up in France with some of her earliest memories of her grandmother and mother always wearing  Chanel No 5. We chat about Coco's millenary, her rise to greatness with fans such as Marilyn Monroe, her impact and lasting legacy on women's fashion and her fascinating...

Romain Gouvernet is a certified sommelier and a local to the Provence wine region near Avignon, and runs the fabulous wine tour company, Provence & Wine.  In this episode of the LFF podcast Lou chats to Romain about his life growing up amongst the grapes, his passion for wine and sharing his knowledge with travelers from all over the world who come to visit this amazing region of France and do...

In 2017 Lou stayed at Rosemary Vine's très chouette country house right outside the plus-beaux village of Monpazier which is a beautiful petit bastide village.  In this episode, Lou talks to Rosemary about what led to her decision to purchase a house in the Dordogne rather than any other region given that all over France is stunning and unique. The conversation includes chats about day trips...

A few years back I visited Provence with my partner Paul and did a little road trip all around the area close to Avignon. One particular day was spent cooking at Jean-Marc Villard's cooking school. Jean-Marc has decades of experience as a head chef in some of the best and Michelin star restaurants across France, as well as a long stint in the US where he brought the French cuisine to America...

Lou chats to Jane Webster, in a wonderfully warm and honest conversation about her story, taking her young family across the world from Australia to live in France, to build a life and renovate a dilapidated château.  Jane talks of the events leading to their decision to shift to a dual continent life in a very personal way. We also hear how the family made friends with the locals when they first...

Lou shares tips for travelling  solo in Paris. Where to eat? Where to stay? How to connect with locals? Lou also chats to our LFF fave Frenchy Sarah for updates on her solo travels to Pau in southwest France. Hear music by Ben Mazue and learn the history of soupe de l'onion!   ** Louise Prichard is the host of the Loulabelle's FrancoFiles podcast. ** Other Loulabelle's links: Franco...

Is that Paris architecture or art? Lou chats with performer, writer and global citizen Ruby Boukabou about her French-Australian life, tapping on top of bars and writing books for us all to walk with in Paris! ** Louise Prichard is the host of the Loulabelle's FrancoFiles podcast. ** Other Loulabelle's links: FrancoFile Fix on YouTube Loulabelle's FrancoFiles Spotify Playlist Loulab...

Want to find the special and sometimes out of the way places to drink champagne in Paris?  Then come on a journey with Lou and her friend Karen as they reveal their fave secret spots for a glass of bubbles in the beautiful French capital! ** Louise Prichard is the host of the Loulabelle's FrancoFiles podcast. ** Other Loulabelle's links: FrancoFile Fix on YouTube Loulabelle's Franco...