Karin Fickes

“of my France travels. Although when I spy the trepidation on Katie’s face as she sizes up the teeny-tiny bedroom and the single bed we are supposed to sleep in together, I know we’ll have to make other arrangements. That’s the thing with my France friends—they are all so lovely and welcoming and hospitable, but they are also very last minute and sometimes hard to pin down when it comes to plans. They don’t have the obsession with planning that we Americans have—the way we plot out our entire lives down to the minute on a Google calendar, send Evites ten weeks in advance to book friends for a simple dinner party, and start planning Thanksgiving and Christmas in July. In France, my friends don’t”
― Juliette Sobanet, Meet Me in Paris