(Written by Dave) Yesterday we visited a nearby mountain town called Eze. Tomorrow Nancy turns 50 (editor’s note – acckkkk!!!). So, we are Ezeing into Fifty (editor’s note – not really all that funny). Having just passed this milestone myself, you can only imagine how helpful I’ve been to Nancy in telling her what to … Continue reading Ezeing into 50

(written by Dave) Our wine exploration continues...  Before we go too far, it should be noted that a key limiting factor on our wine tasting odyssey is that we drink so little.  This makes research painfully slow.  Our budget is of course also a limitation but our consumption rate is definitely critical path. So far … Continue reading French wine and other Nice musings

(Written by Dave) First, an update on our wine tasting... We are now four bottles into research. We have had a couple nice drops but I am sorry to report that we really still have no idea what we are doing. Everyone says “you can't go wrong with a nice Bordeaux”. I'm not sure if … Continue reading Second week in Nice update, plus Mimosa from Cambodia

(written by Dave) Nice is becoming more and more comfortable. Class is going well. At the end of one week we both feel like French is sticking a little at least. This proves that old people can learn a new language – all of the other students in our class could be our children, without … Continue reading More Nice

(written by Dave) We survived three days of French class. So far, we are keeping up ok, but it's not too hard when the first day is a short city tour with our instructor and the second day is mostly how to introduce ourselves. Today things started to get a bit harder as we learned … Continue reading Nice impressions so far

(written by Dave) We made it to Nice safely. I'll make this a quick post as my editor is passed out here watching French language TV and at 7:30 PM we are both ready for sleep. Total travel time door to door, Bangkok to Nice was just over 24 hours. I'm not sure how many … Continue reading Nice – we made it