Bob Spencer: Le Rêve Français
Oops, I forgot to publish this post, sorry Bob. It was part of my series on my own blog readers. Now that he is in France for the summer, I know he is writing in his blog. Check it out. We were out of town when he was in Toulouse so we didn’t get the [...]
Last Day of the “language training course”
This is a little inside joke. I kept saying “stage” when referring to this training. Some of them said their previous English teachers told them you can’t say “stage” in English and you have to say training or continuing education. While I agree, I don’t think this weeklong intensive training course fits the description of [...]
The lodge at Le Bataillet
Here is a link to the lodge where we stayed.
http://www.lebataillet.info/
It is owned by the DGAC, Direction Général d’Aviation Civile, the French Civil Aviation Authority. It is quite impressive. In the lower left part of the aerial photo you can see the pool. It was a big pool. Monday and Tuesday were not the best days, [...]
Happy Birthday Prince
Since we are in the birthday wishing mode, we might as well wish Prince a Happy Birthday. He turned 50 on June 7th. We were watching the French news and they were doing a profile of him. I had lost track of whether or not he was still a symbol or back to the name [...]
Think good thoughts for Alessandro
Our friend Alessandro is back in Philadelphia for a few weeks. Why? He is defending his PhD dissertation today. Yes today, Monday May 19th. His dissertation is in the field of Sociology of Emotions dealing with caregivers. He was in the Sociology department at the University of Pennsylvania, which is where we met. Wish him [...]
Obama event at Viaduc de Millau
Here are some photos. It was an interesting day and we met many Americans of the type we like. We don’t usually go to expat things because we usually find them annoying but this group was nice.
Here is a link to a Flickr slideshow the organizer put together.
Here is a link to a Hub Pages [...]
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