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*the pictures of this post at the bottom don't have much to do with the content of the post. They just make me smile. Click on the pictures to make them larger and read the captions!*
Anyways....it stopped raining! Finally!
Then I went to the store....
So apparently the French don't like to bathe. Or wash their hair. Their bottles of shampoo are tiny! I'll have to buy a new one every other week! Don't get ...
"weekend" is "weekend" in French
... for about 30 minutes and then another 40 on the bus ride. Turns out they were from Boston, the gentleman had just retired and so they were touring around France for 3 months. The woman had lived near Nice as a child for a couple years so it was kind of like coming home. ALSO, they had two children who were adopted from Korea! I don't know about you all, but I don't meet many people with kids who are adopted, so when that was revealed we had so much more to talk about. ...
Story time....
... right...throaty noise. haha) and she looked at me and said, "I have no idea what you said. What are you trying to say?".....meh.
But it's funny she said i'm a good driver. Those of you who have ridden with me in car, such as Kasia, can vouch for the fact that I am not the greatest driver in the world. But i guess according to French standards I fit right in! we have the need for speed in common.
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OK place - bad time to go
We missed the summer lavender fields. If you really dig modern painting, Aix-en-Provence may hold some charm. Not a bad town, just nothing really spectacular.
Nancy liked the shopping in the old town during the market day.
My pic is a bit snarky. Just showing what is undoubtedly the worst (somewhat) functionally aircraft carrier in the world, the Charles de Gaulle.
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We sail the seven C's
... so what about the drink, and the color, you ask? Patience, please. Well it turns out that the good monks of Saint Bruno have been making the alcoholic cordial Chartreuse, named after their mountains, since 1740. (The recipe for Chartreuse, by the way, includes orange peel, hyssop, and peppermint oil—now I know why I don’t like it!) And the color of Chartreuse, of course, is chartreuse. So there you have it. Now just before we enter the monastery, ...
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