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2/6/2005

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6 February ’05, Sunday. If I hadn’t asked her if she wanted to go out for a walk, I would have called it a “Forced March”… I was thinking of a nice (little) walk, but no, she wanted to take on a full fledged, all out, hike…it took over an hour, just one way, and we’d been there before !!! Being Sunday, there weren’t a lot of stores open, so at least we saved a little money for another day. Our destination was to find a couple of large “towers” we had seen from a distance on a return trip from Antibes, but because of the wind and cold of the day, we dispensed of that destination. All we did do, was find the internet café and check in with the latest news from family and friends, and then a little walk through “Old Town”.

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I have to also tell you about the fact that anything that is a “left-over” from a previous meal is sacred…it gets made into a soup. May it be said though, Louise makes the best soups that could pass beyond your lips. She makes “magic” with all those left-over pieces. Today it was left-over sauerkraut, which she put together with mushroom soup base and sausage….it was wonderful !!! I must say, I am fed quite well, this is only a small sample of what she puts together. I wanted to start a new paragraph for this…

We had heard and read, that in France, you’ve got to watch the sidewalks very closely…they don’t “Poopy Scoop” and there is dog shit everywhere…”WATCH OUT !!! Another thing of interest ???…When a man has to go, he has to go…and I mean he will just stop his car right on the sidewalk, walk down a hill of grass a little bit (still very much in sight), and go…or when he is out walking with his wife, he may find a fence just off the sidewalk and …well… Just a couple of interesting points… Oh yes, if you want to stop by a coffee house or restaurant and have a “cappuccino” (they don’t have “Lattes”), you had better have it standing (there are very few that will have it to “take away”), because if you sit down to drink it, the cost of that cup of coffee goes up about 30%… in all the countries that we have traveled through in the last year (19), France has the fewest that speak English…now don’t miss-understand me, I have and still do feel, that if you are visiting or living in a country different from the one you carry a drivers license from, you should at least have a few words to convey to the host…it’s just…well, you know…

 Bread…the French bread, and especially the baguette, deserve the prize for taste…the Greek bread…well, we now know how they got so good with the “Discus” throw…the bread is sooo dense and taste-less that it was all we could do but toss it ourselves. Getting back to the French and their baguette, I can remember once seeing an older man with his arms full of groceries and tied onto his dogs back was 2 loaves of baguettes… Ok, one more tid-bit…we are “Hooked” on “Sour Worms”…


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