Once Upon a Castle
Kamille LongstreetAn American in the French countryside, restoring a centuries-old château and writing the real story, from renovation decisions to culture shock, with a little magic at the edges.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 96 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 12 days ago |
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Less Bud Light, More Moonlight
It’s the Fourteenth of July again.
I first wrote this one last Bastille Day, back when roughly twenty people were reading Once Upon a Castle, and I’m fairly sure half of them were related to me. It remains one of my favorite things I’ve wr...
Nobody at School Spoke English, So My Kids Learned to Watch
My daughter, eyes on the teacher, the way she watches all of her teachers.
At my daughter’s dance performance last month, I spent most of it watching her watch the teacher.
Not the choreography. Not whether she hit the counts or kept the...
Is France Actually Cheaper Than America?
We moved expecting to save money. The truth is stranger, and depends entirely on what you buy.
The question we get more than almost any other, usually in the comments, sometimes in an inquisitive DM, is some version of: okay but is it actu...
Nobody Warned Me About the French Eggs
When we moved to rural France, I came with a list (I’m American, so of course I had a list). I knew about the long lunches and the good cheese and the August where the entire country simply leaves. I had been warned about the paperwork (cor...
What Have We Been Doing This Whole Time?
The coach house opens this summer. The pool tried to stop us.
If you’re new here, welcome. We’re an American family living in rural France, restoring a small château, and currently learning that nothing here happens on the timeline you ima...
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Kamille writes from the French countryside, where her family is restoring a centuries-old château one room at a time. Expect old-house lore, the renovation diary (minus the gloss), and a small thread of folktale magic.
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