Monday, 2 May 2011

What A Day!






The day started today with the news informing us of the death of Osama bin Laden (big news, even here). The photo of the dead guy sure looks like him, but it seems strange to me that they “buried him at sea” when Afghanistan is a landlocked country. Not that I that I think that this is dis-information on behalf of the US government or anything….

And then, of course, it’s Election Day at home in Canada. We’ve been keeping up with things via the internet here (it was even on the news this morning, so Canada does get air time here in France!). It sort of sounds like we may be coming home to a bit of a different country that we left, though. Is this good or bad – I don’t know.

In apartment D30B at the Hambury Palace, we returned from our day in Nice to find that our little apartment had no electricity. The building did, but we didn’t. After trying all the breakers, we had to go get Luca, the concierge for help. He managed to trace the problem down to the dish washer, which, for some reason, blew the electric to the whole apartment when it mal-functioned (even he admitted it was a mystery). So right now we have no dish washer. We never thought that taking a new place meant that all the “kinks” hadn’t been worked out, yet! Anyway – Luca promises to come back tomorrow at 5pm to see if he can sort out what’s wrong, so stay tuned.

We headed off to Nice today to check out the action at the Monday antiques market. We found nothing more than a sweet little dog sitting under a sign that informed us that he bites. Seeing that there was nothing there for us, we went to the Lebanese restaurant we discovered last year and had a scrumptious lunch of Mezes washed down with a very fine bottle of Lebanese rosé, followed by a selection of pastries and some fresh mint tea pored from a very handsome pot. Delicious!

On the way home we passed by several tabacs – of course – and we all ready got the scoop on Kate and Wills – gasp! Photographs that won’t make the Queen laugh (but you will!)

Despite the weatherman’s call for nice weather today, we headed off in sunshine, but by the time we got home it was windy and grey. We did not see any rain, but it sure looked like it was going to - -and we had headed out in shorts and sandals. It seemed cold despite the temperature reported on the pharmacy sign of 22C!

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  1. Carolyn Sharp Art2 May 2011 at 18:49

    Hey there! Still looking forward to your posts every day :) had a peek of sun briefly today, maybe a high of 13?; come on summer!! arggg

    yes, sad that all the happy Wills & Kate talk has now turned to Osama bin Laden - it's good he's gone, but to actually celebrate someone's death is really creepy in my books, regardless of how evil they were; and it's not like all the evil guys working with him have suddenly disappeared...there's not much to celebrate really...as repeatedly annoying as the Wills & Kate stuff was starting to get, at least it was happy stuff;

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  2. Fred3 May 2011 at 12:27

    I agree completely - there is never a reason to celebrate a death. i also stand corrected - he was in Pakistan, to Afghanistan - still a land-locked country. Thanks for reading my blog! we're having a great time here - I know you guys would love it, too!

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