(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
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Travels in France
More Nice
(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
Nice impressions so far
(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
Happy New Year and 2011 summary
(written by both of us) Happy New Year to all from the south of France. We are settling into the apartment here in Nice and begin our French classes tomorrow. The weather has been great – cool for our SE Asia adjusted bodies but nice by any sort of northern hemisphere winter standard. We've had … Continue reading Happy New Year and 2011 summary
Nice – we made it
(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
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