forgive me. i know i have been really slow with the updates of the blog. its hard when you have hooves for hands when it comes to typing.

The easter weekend was amazing...
Bunked in at prrofessor Bil's holiday home in Normandy, veules des roses.

it was a realy crazy, multi-cutural experience with 2 Russian Scientists, Anastasia the Biologist and Dimitri the Bactriologist/Economist.
2 French, French-language profssors,
(Bil, of Jewish-Polish descent and Roger, who came from Congo to study in a seminary and then Sorbonne
University.) And of course the 2 of us and Roger's kid, darling Sarah.

Veules des Roses is a tiny sea-side town in Normandy with pretty cottages which have been preserved and is under some
conservation plan whereby they are nt allowed to change the look of the town in anyway;
ie. buried electricity wires, tradtional thatched roof covering modern-day tile roofs,
chimneys, which are still very used at least. Also the screenng through of potential residents, no new housing is
allowed to be built either, so as you can uderstand, the village has been seriously restored and is still in as original
a form as it can be.

Complete with ONE boucherie, ONE boulangerie, ONE pharmacy, ONE church, ONE petrol station,
ONE vege farmer/seller, ONE dairy farmer/seller and TWO epiceries.
NO hypermarts in sight or fastfood joints, wich is refreshing, then one knows she is up country,
away from the frazzle ad hazzle of city life.

EVen the cars drive slower with pretty bike routes on narrow lanes.
In this small vilage eEveryone knowing everyone.

i will post up the photos soon...pictures will say more than i can.

will be out of france for the first time this week.
leaving for Italy; Rome Venice and Florence on ryanair.

I still cannot believe its 9.99EURs to fly. and i cant wait to sit on the 79cents flights just to say that i sat on a 79cent flight.

how do they cover their costs chargig us peanuts?! perhass their engines are truly castoffs of fighter jets from WWII.

hmmm..

well, ti all those still at the exams.. YOUR BIG SUMMER BREAK IS ALMOST HERE. i will be job hunting when you enjoy, trying to rebuild savings, then you can laugh at me.

ah well, pray we be kept safe, guess being robbed in the first week was good training. all our french friends keep remindng us to be careful of cheats n pickpockets!! eeeks...

to roam the streets of rome now.. back on sunday..