Trip Tip a Day

Tip of the day: Receive a French care package! Bonne Maman Tartelettes citron - the jam and jelly company makes these sweet little tartelettes. Just a minute - Ok, I'm back. After staring at the picture and going to their website, I just had to go enjoy a lemony yummy. The "cookies" are like a little inch and a half pie crust shell filled with lemon tart. Since I'm a huge lemon meringue pie fan, the lemon ones are a favorite - but other fruit flavors are available. In the Dallas area, Central Market carries them. http://www.bonne-maman.com/ Little French soap in the paper Little French soap out of the paper - some lemony scent here as well In a previous post I outlined my love for Cassis pastilles - http://europeantriptipaday.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post.html the other night I wasn't sick, but had a little cough attack in the middle of the night. I rolled over and pulled a lozenge out of the tin in the nightstand. So soothing. And now my sweet French c...

Tip of the day: Visit the local pharmacy, ask for the pharmacist's help We became very friendly with the local pharmacies after my daughter received 27 mosquito bites in Florenc e. Bern Free Sample Anti-itch cream (most frequently used to treat sunburns, itching, nettle rash, insect bites, and mild burns) Then I called for the big guns - Corticosteroid cream When she was going crazy itching with large red welts, we tried a Zyrtec type antihistimine. And you know what did the trick - "tincture of time" as my father-in-law calls it. It was a long process, and some of the creams and medicine might have helped a bit, but over time they finally relented.