Aperitifs
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Aperitifs
We have not been here long and have been invited for aperitifs by our French neighbours on Friday. Can anyone tell me what the likely start time is, as my other half is on the17.30 plane an hours drive away! We are in a small village in the Charente
Thanks for help
Thanks for help
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Re: Aperitifs
I think that it can vary depending on the hosts and what the local custon is.
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Re: Aperitifs
Have a nice apéro!
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Re: Aperitifs
Thanks all for help.
I have knocked on the door, but they work very strange hours. I will try again tonight.
Several hours of nibbles!
I have knocked on the door, but they work very strange hours. I will try again tonight.
Several hours of nibbles!
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We had some french neighbours in for aperitifs last week and they brought wine. - One lot did and the other didn't.
We are now on first name terms with them although we havn't progressed to tutoyer
I think that the rules in french society are changing - slowly The golf club is all tutoyer and bises (with the women!) and first name terms with the neighbours (some of) after a couple of years.
I think that it also depends - in part on the generation.
Your neighbours have held out a hand of friendship and that is a good sign.
good luck
We are now on first name terms with them although we havn't progressed to tutoyer
I think that the rules in french society are changing - slowly The golf club is all tutoyer and bises (with the women!) and first name terms with the neighbours (some of) after a couple of years.
I think that it also depends - in part on the generation.
Your neighbours have held out a hand of friendship and that is a good sign.
good luck
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Re: Aperitifs
I think it's very nice that the French neighbours invited you , aperitifs , whatever ;
where I live , I've been invited ( and I went ) for drinks , lunches , BBQs , dinners , coffees , cakes , snacks...by Italians , Norwegians , Hungarians , English , Germans , Austrians , Swiss , Swedes , Finns , Croats , Americans and others - but in all my 12 years here , never yet once by a local ( Belgian ) .
where I live , I've been invited ( and I went ) for drinks , lunches , BBQs , dinners , coffees , cakes , snacks...by Italians , Norwegians , Hungarians , English , Germans , Austrians , Swiss , Swedes , Finns , Croats , Americans and others - but in all my 12 years here , never yet once by a local ( Belgian ) .
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Re: Aperitifs
No need to take anything for an apéro - it'll be your turn soon to invite everyone!
Even for a dinner invitation from French neighbours, I'd hesitate to take a bottle of wine. They'll have decided on what to drink and might feel obliged to open your bottle even if it doesn't go with the meal and/or isn't to their taste.
This comes from experience before I married a Frenchman and learnt all the pros and cons!
Even for a dinner invitation from French neighbours, I'd hesitate to take a bottle of wine. They'll have decided on what to drink and might feel obliged to open your bottle even if it doesn't go with the meal and/or isn't to their taste.
This comes from experience before I married a Frenchman and learnt all the pros and cons!
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No need to take anything for an apéro - it'll be your turn soon to invite everyone!
Even for a dinner invitation from French neighbours, I'd hesitate to take a bottle of wine. They'll have decided on what to drink and might feel obliged to open your bottle even if it doesn't go with the meal and/or isn't to their taste.
This comes from experience before I married a Frenchman and learnt all the pros and cons!
Even for a dinner invitation from French neighbours, I'd hesitate to take a bottle of wine. They'll have decided on what to drink and might feel obliged to open your bottle even if it doesn't go with the meal and/or isn't to their taste.
This comes from experience before I married a Frenchman and learnt all the pros and cons!
However if invited around to neighbours for lunch or dinner I would never ever turn up without a reasonable bottle of wine - never table wine or especially BIB.
When we've had neighbours here for the first time, they too have usually brought a bottle - or flowers (for Mme TweedP).
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Re: Aperitifs
when our new neighbours came round for apero at our invitation for the first time they brought no alcohol but a couple of gifts of some foie gras and some jam; however I had given them a small hello from us before hand
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Bag in a box. Always a no no. Enjoy your first aperitif. I'm with the others here. No need to take a gift to an aperitif. If you get invited to dinner, then flowers and chocolates are always appreciated, and I find that anything you have made yourselves, such as biscuits or jam, is always really well received.
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Re: Aperitifs
Thanxxxx!
Bag in a box , do you mean : a box of wine ? ( like the 3 l usual carton with the wine in silver foil inside , very popular in some counties I know ) ?
Bag in a box , do you mean : a box of wine ? ( like the 3 l usual carton with the wine in silver foil inside , very popular in some counties I know ) ?
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