The Lyon Den

My new home for the next 3 months and 2 weeks: Lyon, France.  As the final part of my degree I have to do a final year project at a French university, so here I am.  At the end of the 3 months I graduate, and who knows where I’ll be after that!  All I [...]

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Moving again… and exams

As part of my degree I’ll be carrying out a final year project at a university in France next semester.  I’m looking forward to it, even if it is only for 3 months.  I realised today that I leave the UK in exactly 9 days – it’s annoying how quickly these things can spring up [...]

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King Cake – For Real This Time!

A few of you may remember in September last year I posted about the tradition involving King Cake.  It’s a cake that is eaten on Epiphany, which is the 6th of January (so obviously is usually a Christian tradition – although I’m not necessarily religious, I just like cake).  A figurine is hidden inside the [...]

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Border Crossings

The plan today was to spend the first day of the new year skiing in the Jura mountains.  Just across Lake Geneva from the Alps, the Jura mountains, which straddle the Swiss-French border, ‘only’ go up to 1720m (Le Crêt de la Neige), but during the winter get plenty of snow and so have a [...]

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Happy New Year!

A very happy new year to all of those who use a calendar that says it’s the 1st of January today!
Where do the years go though??  One year everyone’s worrying about that Y2K business, next thing we know it’s 2009 – what’s up with that??

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