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Bayonne is located in the South Western part of France near the Atlantic Coast. It is in the Pyrenees Atlantique and in the heart of the French Basque country. Even more so than in Biarritz, reminders of the Basque heritage were everywhere in Bayonne, street signs, business signs, directions, conversations heard on the street, everywhere [...]

There is a longstanding stereotype about the French that they don’t like to wear deodorant and hence they tend to smell. While it is probably an oversimplification, it is not entirely untrue. As the weather warms up going to the gym can be a bit of an ordeal.
Now all gyms smell a bit, but [...]

I haven’t been working very much lately. There have been a slew of French holidays coinciding with the days my class falls on. School holiday, May Day, also an article on Hub Pages, Victory Day, etc. Today I went to work for the first time in 3 weeks, no I don’t get paid when I [...]

Victory in Europe Day, V-E Day or VE Day, was May 7 and May 8, 1945. The dates commemorate the dates when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. On April 30, Hitler committed suicide during the [...]

I have been doing a little writing over at Hub Pages. You earn money through Adsense earnings, Amazon and eBay sales, and referring people to their site. See what we are up to over there. My RSS feed is in the sidebar here, click on an article to see it. Here is a link to [...]

Lost in France is a blog about living in France and in particular about living in Toulouse. I found it before we moved to France and found a lot of info on it funny and useful. One of my favorite parts is where he creates lists of stereotypes. Below are  some links to his lists [...]