Back… home?

For the first time in 15 months, I’m in England.  And guess what – it’s raining!
Well not now, but it was earlier.  But that’s not the point anyway, and even if it was, you have to laugh about it, otherwise you’d cry.  But this isn’t exactly a joyous ‘homecoming’.  I can’t say I missed England much [...]

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Leaving Annecy & Mont Veyrier: Le Col des Contrebandiers – Smugglers’ Pass

Well, that’s it. I left Annecy for the last time on Wednesday. It’s not so much a farewell to France (not yet at least) since I’ll be spending the next month in France on holiday, but it is a farewell to my friends there of course, as well as a farewell to a kind of [...]

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Sunday Evening Cycle

After a relatively busy weekend (people to see, bars to visit…), I wasn’t really expecting to have much of substance to post at the end of the weekend – except for the following video which is pretty funny.

However, that all changed when I decided to go for a cycle round/through town [...]

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Ah, the French…

Why is it the French can’t have a ‘normal’ bureaucracy system with the typical level of red-tape you find in most Western countries? For some reason they decided they had to make it far more complicated. My issue with them at the moment concerns obtaining a carte vitale – the card that ensures [...]

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