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Shortly after i arrived, Clara and I, and a few of her friends went to Italy for a few days.
We took the train from Mane, (where they live) to Marseille, and then took more trains to Cannes, and then stayed at Cagnes-sur-mer, just near the border of France and Italy.
The next day we arrived in Ventimiglia, and we watched the coast turn from ...

Working as part of a team to build a shelter in an APARE volunteer workcamp, all the while enjoying the beautiful Lake St. Croix scenery, I should have felt incredibly relaxed on this last leg of my abroad tour. But I did not. I could only think of home.

For these last two weeks, fourteen of us volunteers woke up every morning to start working at 7 AM. Each day, two people stayed back at the base camp to cook both lunch and dinner for the rest of the group. Besides ...

... area of the car. No problem, no luggage needed for the next few days.  On the ride back to Jean's home in Coudoux to return his car, Michael did well driving the streets of Marseille and Coudoux. He hasn't driven a car with a standard transmission in years, but it's just like riding a bicycle -- you never forget. However, without Dominique's expert navigation, I'm not sure we would have made it back to the house as quickly as we did. After ...

... Julie's TGV from Paris arrived. It was very hot and we all waited in a station cafe while Michael went off to collect the Avis car we had hired. The car was great, fitting all 5 of us and our luggage very comfortably, and armed with an old touring map of Provence that Bernard had kindly given us, we set off to find our way to Simiane la Rotonde and our gite. Just getting out of Marseilles in 5.00 pm rush hour was fairly challenging, but things went ...

... side of the road with us both driving a stick shift car while navigating the narrow windy lavender roads! Ryan was an excellent GPS navigator, telling Laurie when the next roundabout was and precisely which exit to take to our next destination. We are thankful we brought the GPS along! Our first stop was Gordes where we enjoyed the lovely Abbey de Senanque which was founded in the 12th century. The Abbey was quite the site because it is surrounded by ...

... at this place at this time. We were all just crossing each other's paths, not even for long enough to be blips on each other's radars. But life's trajectories are never straight: they curve slowly and jerk sharply, but they are never straight and rarely rigid. If we're lucky, our paths will cross again. My trip in short The following are the results ...

... trip to France! She had arrived in Paris on Friday, when I was eating and drinking to my heart's content as part of a huge wedding party in Normandy. We had had no contact since her arrival, but knew that we were booked on the same train to Aix-en-Provence (though not necessarily the same train car). I was at the train station early enough to purchase the ubiquitous jambon et fromage sandwich, while I roamed around in search of Darlene, to no avail. I was ...

... A for being too pushy (to which A replied that it was "just because I don't have enough time," which, according to the previously cited reason for her not making the potatoes, is bollocks). C attempted to diffuse the situation by telling A that she would be happy to eat A's potatoes because it's really not that big of a deal. However, C then told B what she had just told A, and B claimed that it was unreasonable for A to be offended by everyone's preference for real ...

Hello again: Yesterday we drove to Turino in Italy over a very interesting mountain pass. We then drove through a number of tunnels including one that was over 5 km long. We saw the Olympic bobsled site on our trip. In Turino Keith and I got to the Olypiad and saw round 10. Canada crushed Tunisia 3.5 to .5. We saw many famous chess players, including Annand, Aronian, Kramnik, Svidler, Magnus Carlson, etc. Marusia and ...

... pushes which serves to separate the people. We need to "reagir" (fight back), she said, but nobody does. We need to "arreter de consumir" (stop consuming), because our consumption empowers the government. My final day in France, a guy gave me a ride and introduced himself as "Jack." We drove the sides of small mountains inhabited by pine trees fluffy and comfortingly tall. Jack was forty-two with a moustache, and he was sad. He usually worked in a small ...