Sunday 21 May 2017

Being in France is Wonderful, and

there are a few things that we'll fondly remember as having been not so perfect.

  • the airport in Paris had us walking about as far as it would have taken to walk to the Champs Élysées, had we wanted to do that
  • we couldn't find a Timmie's at the airport but we've been amazed to see how many McDo's there are across the part of the country we've been in
  • we found that we were wrongly pronouncing the name of the city we were in.  Apt is pronounced Aupt not Apt
  • not liking a grubby Nissan rental car should not necessarily have led us to rent a BMW, but my it's a lovely, spoil-us-forever vehicle
  • I have a previously not-recognized fear of curvy winding mountain roads which are about as wide as a tourbus
  • We both fell in love with Nice, even though the room we were in had a seriously leaking shower and the make-it-yourself breakfast left a lot to desire  (but there were chocolate-filled croissants)
  • Fourteen years after working in both official languages, I find I don't really have a good hold on either of them
  • Annecy, where we are now, is a bit colder than I thought---duh, it's in the Alps
  • I brought five pairs of pants and have been wearing the same ones for a week, with washing in there somewhere because I unfortunately can't fit in some of the ones I brought---two pairs of jeans that were just dandy at home.
  • It's really hard to choose among the cheeses.
  • We only arranged for 10 days in Annecy where we have this lovely corner flat with a curve-around balcony
Enough whining.  Hope you're all having a wonderful long weekend.

4 comments:

  1. So ... you're in France AND driving a Beemer?!

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  2. So ... you're in France and not visiting Corey Amaro?! - Kate

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    1. Corey Amaro is in Paris where we will not be except to turn in our car and fly home. She's all right with that

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  3. It still sounds wonderful!
    I remember only the good parts of France myself, though no doubt we had scrapes along the way, and I know we had to re-plan a few days on the fly. I do, however, seem to remember that the airport was a long, long walk (I think we took the train into Paris, so that may have contributed).

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