I can’t believe how parallel lives can occur. Today I woke up, did laundry and hung it on the line, stewed rhubarb, which is our first fruit, headed out to see friends, whose son died three years ago today, went to a community event, and then came home and worked in the garden. we really are all connected in this world. Thank you for making the world a better place. Love from 🇨🇦 Canada .

@PatricyaT

29 күн бұрын

My day was very similar, however I am in Brazil.

Oh what an absolute gorgeous video. I’m old and was feeling tired this morning but after watching you I’m energized. Everything you do is soooo classy and beautiful. ♥️

@FrenchCountryLife

29 күн бұрын

Happy to hear this! Thank you 🙏

You are such a generous soul. Very few KZreadrs give out locations of where they shop & get really nice things. It’s people like you who will always thrive & do well in every aspect of your life. Thank you for being this person to all who come in contact with you. God bless. Hope to meet you one day in my travels.

@FrenchCountryLife

28 күн бұрын

🙏❤️

You really inspire me and your videos bring me peace and hope! We appreciate all of your hard work and it helps to motivate me! Thank you! 😊

@FrenchCountryLife

17 күн бұрын

Happy to hear this! Thank you for being here!

Bonjour Marloes, your countryside is just beautiful. I love going to the Brocante's with you, they were very lovely, thank you for taking us along. Looking forward to seeing the finished tiles.

Always beautifully serene and pleasantly cozy, no matter what you present. Love the new grout color, too. The vintage shop is simply amazing, too! Thank you for all your inspiring inspirations🤍 Enjoy a lovely weekend to you both🌿

@FrenchCountryLife

29 күн бұрын

My pleasure! Thanks for being here!

OMG, I just found your channel and it is fabulous!! All my very favorite things!! Antique hunting, France and driving/sightseeing through the countryside/villages. I would have bought a full truck of goodies from that shop. It is magical riding in the car seeing everything I long to see first hand. I love the way you film your daily lives and I find it so interesting and inspiring to live there through your family! I now must go watch ALL your videos. Thank you so much from Canada!!

@FrenchCountryLife

8 күн бұрын

Hi! Thanks so much for sharing your excitement and welcome to the channel! Happy binge watching! 😉

Oh geez...what a lovely day in the neighborhood! I think my house would become brocante'd to death after a while...so much to buy! Anyways...thanks again for the panorama! And the food. 😊

The nicest brocante yet imo.

Beautiful video. We live in a very small village in New England in the United States. It is very different in so many way, but surprisingly similar in the countryside. This was a lovely reminder that you can live simply and beautifully right where you are. I'm working on many home projects right now myself. As much as I want them done, this reminded me that there is beauty in the process. It is the journey, not the destination that truly counts.

Thank you for a lovely video once again - for sharing all your beautiful and interesting places and visits with us.

Another lovely, peaceful, beautiful video. Thank you so much . I’m looking forward to seeing your kitchen! The Brocante’s are fascinating. I could get lost in them for hours.

As always, your photography is beautiful. The sky, the hillsides, the clouds and even the cows are so pretty there! I laugh at how curious the white cows are, staring and watching you so intensely . Once again I have to say I could happily live my life out in your little guest house. Thanks for the Brochante info. I could spend full days at that second one❤❤❤

@FrenchCountryLife

28 күн бұрын

Thank you!

The production quality of your videos is professional or better. Every minutiae comes to vibrant life! Watching you celebrate your daily activities - reminds me to celebrate mine. Peeling and chopping an onion, whisking an egg, delivering just the right floor tiles (well, not that exactly). You know what I’m saying. Thank you for impacting so positively - your little corner of the world - that now includes me. ❤

@FrenchCountryLife

27 күн бұрын

Oh thank you for this sweet comment! ❤️ So happy to hear my videos inspire you!

thank you for everything… have a treat on us because your videos are always a treat

@FrenchCountryLife

29 күн бұрын

Thank you so much for your generosity!

As if it had to be this way, while watching this episode I see your visit to the brocante of the Dutch couple.... In a week we will be staying across the street at a campsite Le petit Montperroux. Thank you for your tip, we are going to really enjoy this beautiful region..

What a lovely, peaceful video! From the clothes hanging on the line, to the cooking, to the lovely brocante in the national park, it was all just peaceful and lovely, You've surely have made such a great life for yourselves and are so generous with your guests. The cottage is looking terrific, and the kitchen floor is going to be just perfect! Thanks for sharing with us.

Such a charming antique barn!

Wow...I've learned a lot from your videos. I love country life! Thank you so much from Oz!

@FrenchCountryLife

6 күн бұрын

Thanks for being here!

At first I thought Olaf was making something “artistic “ with the broken tiles lol … you are both perfectionists . I could have spent a week in that brocante what treasure house.

Your channel is my sanctuary 🙏😌

@FrenchCountryLife

28 күн бұрын

Happy to hear this!

Absolutely loved the brocante shops!!

@FrenchCountryLife

28 күн бұрын

We have to go there sometime and eat bitterballen 😂🙈

Your interior and exterior design of your house is beautiful 💚🍀💚🍀👌🥰

@FrenchCountryLife

29 күн бұрын

Thank you!

I always love seeing that you’ve posted a new video. I’m in love with all things in your French country life!

@FrenchCountryLife

28 күн бұрын

❤️

WHAT A LOVELY LIFE

It’s always nice to see the French countryside when I’m back in the states.🇺🇸 Love going to brocantes too!🫶

I am amazed how you choose the loveliest places to go and the drive to these places is beautiful. I think I could and would spend days in brocantes. Thank you for taking us along. ❤

@FrenchCountryLife

28 күн бұрын

My pleasure!

Burgundy in May is so lovely! The flowers blooming around your home are glorious. I particularly like the irises! The Cook’s Cottage looks so warm and welcoming. A stay there remains on my bucket list!

@FrenchCountryLife

28 күн бұрын

I love those too! We didn’t have those in The Netherlands!

I’m so happy to see your progress and how beautiful your home and surroundings are!!! Thank you so much!! wish you would identify what you are picking and cooking!!!! I have your cookbook and I’m trying to Learn everything! ❤❤❤❤❤❤

@FrenchCountryLife

29 күн бұрын

It was stinging nettle! Sorry I was assuming people would know given the fact that I used a plastic bag which was very inconvenient but I couldn’t pick them all with my bare hands as they were close together and I would get stung

Verybeautiful~~❤👍

Thanks for the lovely video in the midst of your busy life. Oh those Brocantes, so beautiful, the first one in particular really grabbed my heart strings. I could almost smell it! (In a good way). We are finally getting back to France next week after two difficult years, I’m jumping out of my skin. Thanks for keeping my “French connection” alive while I’ve been away ❤

@FrenchCountryLife

29 күн бұрын

Thank you! Enjoy your trip to France!

Great video loving the Brocante place i would spend all of my time there 😊 thanks for sharing ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿x

Beautiful

Oh, wat is de lente mooi bij jullie Marloes. I recently shared your channel with a Dutch cousin, who lives in California. He would love to live in France but he married an American girl. Her work is here. I married my late Canadian husband who lived here in California. So we just talk about Frankrijk and watch you . Thank you for being there.! Loved the Brocante. Ik zag veel leuke dingen btw. Most of all your green spring !🙏💕🌷🇳🇱

@FrenchCountryLife

28 күн бұрын

Thank you for being here!

About your kitchen floors; go see what they have at the local place, and see if you like the newest shade. Or if you can, trade out your orange tiles for a mixture, put a pattern on the floors, orange around the edges and a lighter color in the center. Or just mix several softer shades randomly in the center-or throughout! Lots of options that may be more to your liking and not all orange. The orange tiles can also be used elsewhere in another cabin. Allow yourself flexibility and trust your instincts!!!🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵💙💙💙🏄

@FrenchCountryLife

22 күн бұрын

Thanks! We did mix it all up indeed’

I love your solution to the stinging nettles. Very smart.

@FrenchCountryLife

28 күн бұрын

It was very impractical though but I didn’t have gloves 😂

Hi Marloes hope doing well love the brocantes such lovely and inviting place to enjoy having a snack or coffee soo green and relaxing place ítems are quite interesting I look forward for next video thanks for sharing such Nice scenery music and cant wait to see that wonderfull kitchen tiles finished ❤

@FrenchCountryLife

24 күн бұрын

Thank you

Quel bel endroit, ce calme verdoyant me pousse à m’y rendre pour la 1ère fois de ma vie, ce n’est pas si éloigné de Lyon où je vis. Merci beaucoup de nous le faire découvrir et de le partager ;-) Philippe

@FrenchCountryLife

28 күн бұрын

Nous sommes à 2h de Lyon effectivement!

@philippefontfrede7911

28 күн бұрын

Avec plaisir nous passerons vous voir ☀️

Lovely!

What a lovely video. Your kitchen floor is going to be so beautiful. Thank you for sharing infos on the brocantes.

@FrenchCountryLife

28 күн бұрын

My pleasure!

What amazing places these are how can yo not buy anything I would be in heaven 😊

Marloes, even your weeds look gorgeous!

@FrenchCountryLife

28 күн бұрын

Haha! They do! Define “weeds”. I leave as much as I can 😀

Those cows always crack me up. They look like they are interested in what is happening and checking you out. Finally I ordered your book and reading it this weekend is my treat! I have the zucchini in oven with chicken thighs now.

@shelleyimmel8067

29 күн бұрын

Finishing up on my patio and potting up herbs and flowers this weekend in Western Oregon. Turned a bit chilly or I would be out there now. You are so inspiring🌹

@FrenchCountryLife

28 күн бұрын

Oh I hope you’ll enjoy the book!

@FrenchCountryLife

28 күн бұрын

Thanks! It’s such a cool spring here as well. I keep waiting for warmer days too with some garden projects!

Beautiful country ❤

Oh how I wish I could shop at places like this!!

Spring! 🌱🌦🌷🌳🌸

Peaceful living

Magnifique

OMG, Parisienne Farmgirl who lives in Wisconsin here in the US is laying thousands of those same tiles. What a job! She is on youtube also.

So so nice😍🌹🥰

Good morning

It's really nice to see you and Olaf sit down to a meal together...the guy works hard trying to get everything done in the way I feel you want....as they say here in the States "Happy wife, happy life"....I think you are a perfectionist, living in France I got used to the old dark red tomettes, and sometimes I felt they made a place look very dreary because just like England, France has a lot of overcast skies for many months of the year. I prefer wood floors myself. The color you chose is super different, don't remember seeing that often at all. I feel it's going to come out really beautiful, light and airy and stand out because it's not the old traditional dark red. I liked the brocante places you stopped to visit, the first one was very nice, but the second one certainly stood out in that it had so much to offer! I hope the grout meets your expectations, but I was wondering can't the company ship you samples so you don't have to drive so much? I guess I'm just used to Lowe's or the Home Depot shipping everything to my place, if I can get it by mail, I don't even bother going to the stores anymore.....LOL!

@FrenchCountryLife

28 күн бұрын

Thanks! The color of the tomettes depends on the sand that is used which is red in our area and I don’t always like them that much either. Also the finished look depends on the treatment that can make them shinier and deeper in color. We are going to tone the colors down a bit as I like that more. And yes Olav is a magician who manages to make things exactly as I imagined plus he has great suggestions and ideas that I use for the designs. In return for him working his butt off to have a happy life 😂 I respect his need for precision and his perfectionism which make things take longer but I know he loves being able to do things his way and on his terms and I can only appreciate that in him. Thank you for seeing that and giving him credit ❤️🙏

@sdmsdm7926

26 күн бұрын

@@FrenchCountryLife I hope you will never take anything I say the wrong way because I absolutely love your channel. I lived in Paris (you were right there, in my very old neighborhood in Les Halles, on Rue Rambuteau not long ago) the block has changed & become upscale, it sure wasn't like that when I lived there. There was no signage in English. Later on we moved down south to Ramatuelle and that was just a very beautiful area, so close to the beach and also the vineyards. You're very courageous to chase your dreams, not many people do & then one day you find yourself old & gray & wishing this & that. This is part of the magic of your channel, you did it and with family to boot, and so far seems to be so good & the rest of us green with envy. I do believe you are someone with a vision in everything you do & I can already see how wonderful this place will turn out to be. There are no good men left really (at least here in the States) only psychos & the rest of us who see Olaf and how he works & his skills is another reason to watch your channel and hope & pray that all us single ladies will have a chance sometime to meet a fellow like him. You are very talented & very forward thinking & your channel is always a delight to watch!

@FrenchCountryLife

25 күн бұрын

Thank you!

انها نبتات القراص هي مفيدة جدا للجسم وابرها اذالامست الجلد يوجد بيها مادة البنسلين لهذا هي مفيدة في كل حالاتها❤️❤️❤️❤️🌸🌸

@FrenchCountryLife

29 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

한국에서 인사드립니다. 프랑스의 시골풍경이 정말 아름다워요...자생식물들도 가끔 보여주세❤

As always, so interesting, and what lovely countryside you live in! I was wondering what plant it was you collected next to the road, and then washed, and cooked in a pot? Just idle curiousity!

@FrenchCountryLife

29 күн бұрын

Stinging nettle!

If you wonder why the village sign at 15m10 is upside down : it's one way our farmers protest at how appallingly they are treated by our government. These upside down signs are all over France.

❤

what a beautiful video! Can you tell me the difference between a “vide grenier” and a “brocante”?

Another great video. Thank you. I’m interested in knowing what you were picking on the side of the road that you were careful not to get on your hands? Was it nettles?

@FrenchCountryLife

28 күн бұрын

Yes stinging nettles!

Me too. What is that plant and why couldn’t you touch it? Great video.

@FrenchCountryLife

29 күн бұрын

It’s stinging nettle! You can pick the leaves without gloves if you hold them by the stem under the leaves without getting stung but they were too close together to avoid touching the top part of the leaves and then you get stung. Cooking them for 2 minutes removes the stinging and then you can cook with them (soup, pesto, quiche, omelette…)

@cyniror

29 күн бұрын

@@FrenchCountryLifeinteresting!

❤❤❤🎉

Thanks

@FrenchCountryLife

28 күн бұрын

Thanks so much for your generosity ❤️

@theresechenoweth2321

28 күн бұрын

You have given me so much pleasure and so many great ideas, this is the least I can do. Now I know how easy it is to say thanks in a practical way, I will be doing so again.

@FrenchCountryLife

28 күн бұрын

@@theresechenoweth2321thank you!

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Weer genoten van je video. Ik woon in de Morvan en geniet van het bekende landschap waar je soms bent en ook van jouw gebied. Mag ik vragen hoe de steensoort/gravel heet wat je bij het huis hebt? Erg mooi. Xx Annemiek 58230

@FrenchCountryLife

13 күн бұрын

We hebben concassé maar achter het huis heb ik het gemengd met beton melange steentjes. Die zijn niet geschikt om met de auto op te rijden maar voor een terras kan dat als bovenlaag prima en de kleur en vorm van de steentjes is veel mooier vind ik. De bouwmarkt zei wel drie keer dat dat niet bedoeld is voor terrassen en paden maar dan zei ik steeds: “er ligt 5cm concassé onder!” en dan waren ze gerustgesteld 😂

@annemiek2760

13 күн бұрын

Ah Merci voor je reactie! Ik heb idd die nodig waar ik met de Discovery overheen kan rijden! Het is hier al de hele dag mistig en motregen in Ouroux dus ben vanavond begonnen met een heleboel vlogs van jullie te kijken. Heerlijk, je inspireert me zo. Alleen het jammere is dat bij mij in de buurt niet die grote emaüs shops zijn :/. Heb zo’n zin in zon, mooi weer en de Brocantes!

Are you making Nettle tea? What are those leaves?

@FrenchCountryLife

17 күн бұрын

Nettle yes. I put them in my omelette!

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Do you ever see snakes when you are out working in your garden or walking in tall grass or picking things? So afraid of them!

@FrenchCountryLife

28 күн бұрын

We have no huge and dangerous snakes here, only vipers occasionally

Is that wild plant stinging nettles ?

@FrenchCountryLife

24 күн бұрын

Yes it is!

Why handle the leaves with a glove?

@FrenchCountryLife

28 күн бұрын

They’re stinging nettles!

Sigh....

what a beautiful video! Can you tell me the difference between a “vide grenier” and a “brocante”?

@FrenchCountryLife

27 күн бұрын

A vide grenier is an (often) outdoor market where individuals can sell items they no longer need (the translation is “empty attic”). In many vide greniers though you’ll find professional sellers as well. A brocante is a shop or a market where mostly professionals sell objects that would be considered “brocante” so with a certain style. A vide grenier can be anything, like a garage sale. Hope this helps!