Hello, and greetings from Nice (pronounced like “neice niece”), France (pronounced like “dance” only with an “Fr” not a “d”).
Nice is great. We’re staying at a wonderful hostel that was at one time a monestary monastary.
We’ll spend the day tomorrow cruising the city, seeing the sites (including Girabaldi’s grave and a WW1 memorial), and, if [...]
Archive for October, 2005
Nice is Nice
Posted in France, Travels on October 27, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Wake Up Lazy Europeans!!
Posted in France on October 27, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
While on holiday to the Grand Canyon with Green Tortoise, one of the drivers woke us up early one morning screaming, “Wake Up Lazy Europeans! Get out of bed!” (incidentally, he also jokingly complained that the Grand Canyon sucked because he thought it would be “grander”).
The Europeans on the trip laughed it off, but I [...]
Last Night I Suck the Dog
Posted in France on October 26, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Hello, I am currently in Marseille on holiday. Marseille is on the Mediterranean Sea. Its views are beautiful, but its crime rate is high, so I feel a bit ill at ease here in the evenings.
Off the coast is a small prison which inspired The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumbass Dumas. (bonus points [...]
Odor: France’s Secret Weapon
Posted in France on October 24, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I was on the 5 bus from Campus to the Centre Ville, heading to work. A sweet older woman, in her 60’s I imagine, boarded the bus and sat down next to me.
She smiled at me, said “Bon jour” (I replied in kind), then farted – and quite loudly too.
I was stunned and a little [...]
