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2022-04-22

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Our Family 2021 at PumpjackPiddlewick

2021-01-01

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Happy 20202020 from all of us at Pumpjack and Piddlewick

2020-01-07

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2019-11-11

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Discovering France via a ramble in the country at PumpjackPiddlewick

2019-10-23

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I’m Alycea, shop owner and writer here at Pumpjack & Piddlewick. I'm creating a whole new life in France.
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More French Findings

Only in France is something expats say a lot, but really it is simply cultural differences. We explore some of thoses here at PumpjackPiddlewick

Only in France

Life in France is all about adopting, adapting and sometimes ignoring cultural differences we explain here at PumpjackPiddlewick

Life in France: Adopt, Adapt… or Just Ignore?

The French stare a lot. But why? We look into the variations of their stare and why they do it here at PumpjackPiddlewick

The French Stare (They certainly do)

There are police in France and there are Gendarmerie. So what is the difference we ask here at PumpjackPiddlewick

The Police in France

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Making Friends in France

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