MANNA Travel Diary

I love a travel diary. Back in my teens I was a slightly deranged scrapbooker. I picked up souvenirs, napkins, scribbled notes, drawings, cut things up and taped them all into ...

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Saturday Morning Manna

Winter holidays for school children officially begin today. And while most families are off to the slopes in Switzerland, The Alps, or Mont Blanc, we will be staying put in Paris. My husband went skiing without us last ...

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Saturday Morning Manna

This past week has been nothing but rain, rain, short spurts of beautiful Instagram-worthy sunshine, then more rain. Me and my daughter had to duck into a restaurant after getting caught in a horrible tempête that had chairs and ...

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Saturday Morning Manna

The past week somehow just flew by for me. It started full of meetings and trying to stay organized and productive. (When I laid out my vision for the year these were two important ...

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Saturday Morning Manna

Bonne Année! I love the start of a New Year and how the French usually follow their new year’s greetings with “plein des bonne choses!” At first I found this bizarre. “Happy New Year! Wish ...

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Happy Holidays from MANNA Paris

Hope everyone is having a great winter holiday and spending quality time with the fam. We are in Lucerne, Switzerland, where I am trying to be open-minded about celebrating different traditions than what I am used to. ...

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