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Auxerre
In my message to Nakita today I said that it was hard to believe these buildings are really true. To me this whole place looks like a movie set. I guess that’s because I’m a Kiwi kid and, in New Zealand, if things look really old, then it’s usually because they were made to look
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Some Art ‘n Stuff
Yesterday, I asked a question in French and was understood (an internal jumpy-up-and-down moment for me!). “What is the name of the trees with the flowers?” I asked the lady at the Hertz reception. To which she replied “One moment, I will just phone my mum – she knows the name of all the trees!”
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Un Jour de Pluie à Paris
Dear Auckland, we are sorry to hear you have had such a lot of rain recently (again!). It rained in Paris today too, most of the day. No floods to report, just muddy puddles here and there. And it was cold. Our delay in arriving in Paris meant that we missed our pre-booking for the
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Waking Up in Paris
It still feels like a dream, but this morning we really did wake up in Paris. According to our itinerary, we should have been waking up here yesterday (that was Saturday for us). But after a mechanical fault in our plane in LA, our flight to Munich was cancelled and we had to spend Friday
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So Close….
Well, our leaving day finally arrived – Friday 5 May. After a flurry of last minutes things to do, we were dropped off to Auckland Airport by Josh and had a really good flight to LA Airport. The stop in Los Angeles was only meant to be around four hours, then another eleven hours to
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Four More Days
It’s Been a Long Time Coming… Hello dear family and friends Thank you for stopping by to have a wee squizzy at this, my first-ever Blog (and a huge thank you to the wonderful Rachel C for her patience and perseverance in helping me set it up!). This trip to France has been on the
Over to France
Bonjour and thank you for stopping by. My name is Renie and this is the story of my first trip (avec mon mari) to France. We flew into Paris and then journeyed south-eastward by car, through so many beautiful villages, to arrive in Nice. It was four weeks of amazingness. We were totally smitten and our lives have been forever changed! If you would like to have a peek at what we experienced, then please read on….. And if you would like to venture further with us, as we work out our future Over to France adventures, then please read on a bit further still…
Over To France 