<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>Le Franco Phoney</title>
	<link>http://www.lefrancophoney.com</link>
	<description>All things French as seen by an outsider...</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:52:55 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	<!-- generator="WordPress/3.1.3" -->

	<item>
		<title>Alternatives to downhill winter sports #3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following on from alternatives #1 and #2 (cross-country skiing and snowshoeing), today I look at the ski &#8216;resort&#8217; of St Jean de Sixt. &#8220;How is that an alternative to downhill winter sports?&#8221;, you may ask. It&#8217;s a fine line, but I&#8217;m willing to prove that it could be considered an alternative. But before I get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lefrancophoney.com/alternatives-to-downhill-winter-sports-3/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Frenchness rubbing off on the Swiss</title>
		<description><![CDATA[France and Switzerland seem like unlikely neighbours to me. The French love slow time while the Swiss love to keep time. Some of my French friends park illegally and don&#8217;t care while a Swiss person can book their neighbour for parking in a car-free neighbour&#8217;s allotted spot. France is still learning what the internet is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lefrancophoney.com/frenchness-rubbing-off-on-the-swiss/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Just give her the Kinder Bueno!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, I was going to write about something completely different, but this French TV advertisement just came on and it annoys me so much that I had to write about it. Perhaps it&#8217;s just me applying far too much logic to a simple ad. It features top French tennis player Jo Wilfried Tsonga, and is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lefrancophoney.com/just-give-her-the-kinder-bueno/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Trumpets Of Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fancy some trumpets of death? Look no further than the supermarket shelves. Here, next to the Morille mushrooms, you&#8217;ll find the &#8216;Trompettes de la mort&#8216;, or Trumpets of Death. Also known as &#8216;black trumpets&#8217; in English, these mushrooms are apparently quite difficult to find, and if bought dried, taste a little like truffles. Regardless, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lefrancophoney.com/trumpets-of-death/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Alternatives to downhill winter sports #2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After I survived the physical workout of cross-country skiing, and with a Christmas guest who didn&#8217;t want to ski, I went snowshoeing on a sunny, warm day in late December. Not just any old snow-shoeing. No. I went on a guided snowshoe walk. That sounds a bit posh, eh? I mean, how hard can it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lefrancophoney.com/alternatives-to-downhill-winter-sports-2/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Mountain gets &#8216;radikal&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pictured below is the map of where some crazy unranked skiers and snowboarders will be doing cool tricks and daring descents right here in La Clusaz tomorrow in the lead-up to the Radikal Mountain competition. Those who qualify will get to do it all again at the weekend further over on the l&#8217;Etale peak with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lefrancophoney.com/mountain-gets-radikal/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Important changes in Annecy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was down in Annecy with a friend last night for a movie and a meal. We decided to eat at the little-known Mediterranean gem just outside of town, but when we got there, it was gone. Their food was great, but the disappointment soon turned to glee when my brain registered that a Thai [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lefrancophoney.com/important-changes-in-annecy/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Alternatives to downhill winter sports #1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cross-country skiing. What a dumb thing to do when there are chairlifts that take you to the top of a hill so you can enjoy the slide down. And that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s taken me until this year to try it — a week before the lift system opened in La Clusaz. Had the lifts been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lefrancophoney.com/alternatives-to-downhill-winter-sports-1/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Post office doesn&#8217;t like brown packaging paper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I took this package to the post office last week and it was rejected. Two rounds of tape was perhaps not enough? The address wasn&#8217;t clear enough? Nope. It offending element was the brown packaging paper. I wrapped a festive biscuit tin, complete with my homemade gingerbread cookies, in paper made especially for posting. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lefrancophoney.com/post-office-doesnt-like-brown-packaging-paper/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Let it snow, then rain, then snow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most noticeable and amusing things about living in the French Alps is how quickly conversation turns to snow when winter approaches. Months before the resort is due to open, people start predicting what sort of season it will be based on everything from long-term weather forecasts to how abundant the berries are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lefrancophoney.com/let-it-snow-then-rain-then-snow/</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>

