what are the French planning for the New Year?

A few hours before New Year’s Eve, last purchases for a Marseillaise on the Old Port market, on the morning of Sunday December 31. On the menu, Provençal specialties and above all “a good laugh“. Between neighbors, friends or lovers, it depends. Some especially want to make up for lost time. “We did a ‘Christmas’, a mix between Christmas and New Year. We didn’t see each other during the holidays, it’s an opportunity for us to celebrate (…) together“, confides a couple.

Enthusiasm and first times

For others, the first day of the year is also the occasion for great firsts. A woman tries a “genovese“, a Neapolitan dish”with lots of onions and meat cooked for seven hours“. In Dordogne, the rain is not likely to spoil the enthusiasm of a group of friends. Like every year, these Bordeaux friends meet in a gite to celebrate the new year. The evening will surely continue upstairs from the house, in the playroom.