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Archive >> March 2010

Three trips to the Prefecture (French Bureaucracy moments)

Posted by: Reece in Uncategorised  on

It`s a fact. Ninety percent of the world`s black clothing dye is used in Nice. The other ten percent is used by a group of Goth kids living in a suburb of Sacremento. It`s a fact. If you doubt it just take a walk on the Promenade and I challenge you to prove me wrong.

Here`s another fact. The more French you learn; the more you realize how crappy


Back in France (and the stylishness of French people)

Posted by: Reece in Uncategorised  on

Why is it that when North American women pass sixty they seem to give up on looking stylish? It's like they wake up on the first day of their sixtieth year and decide - 'What I need is the haircut of a twelve year old boy, an oversized t-shirt with a kitty on it and dungarees that a coal miner would wear.'

They also choose to call jeans dungarees


With friends like these (if I ever get the opportunity to kick you)

Posted by: MikeP in Uncategorised  on

We assume that we can trust our so-called friends, and yet, in my lifetime, although I've only been conned twice, both times it was big money and both times by so called friends. The first was a friend who'd been scammed by Nigerians who had robbed him of his life savings despite our warnings that it was a scam. I was left with the choice of