Contents

Changing Places

In the First Place

Home Sweet Medieval Home

Totally Immersed

Talking French with Your Mouth Full

Never Try to Act Out “Sausage” in a Supermarket

Cooking and Eating Provence

The Stuff Center of the World

How to Go to the Bathroom

Hanging Out

Make Way for Ducks

In the Second Place

The Second Time Around

Real Friends and False Friends

It Loses in Translation

We Don’t Like Tours; We Listen In on Yours

We’re Party Animals

What’s She Got That I Haven’t?

Proust Brings Cookies to Dinner

Broken and Entered

In the Third Place

Not So Nice

The House Speaks English

Nostalgia for a Life We Never Lived

The Geriatric Tour de France

A Type A Couple in a Type B World

Best Friends

Someone Put a Banana in My Chardonnay

Provence in a Suitcase

In the Fourth Place

Living Sideways

The More Things Change, the More They’re Different

Caruso in the Kitchen

Larry Takes a Mistress

An Ill Wind That Blows No Good

The Uncommon Market

Real Live Tourists

At Home Away

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