Pèzenas
Friday, 12 May 2017 to Thursday, 18 May 2017
I was watching rugby this morning when my mind wandered back to those EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) progress meetings I used to have in my office every Friday morning between 10:00 and 11:00. These meetings became known within the organisation as the roompoffertjie (cream puff or cream pie) meetings, but let me explain. Continue reading
Marseillan
Friday, 5 May 2017 to Thursday, 11 May 2017
It was cold and cloudy again today… And what made it colder and darker still was the fact that I have had no feedback from MTN yet regarding the deactivation of my sim. Surprised? No! Expected? Yes! I’m not sure how this company does business. Being rather busy yesterday with our OFII process I did not follow up on the MTN query, but today was different, I had the world of time on my side. Continue reading
Sete early morning
Friday, 28 April 2017 to Thursday, 4 May 2017
The sun was out today, but a weak one at that. It was still a miserable 9°C outside this morning, too cold for my skin; I had to cover up with a layer or two, and that was inside. But the cold weather during the last week had been a blessing in disguise; it allowed me to Continue reading
Cité de Carcassonne up close
Friday, 21 April 2017 to Thursday, 27 April 2017
Today we came a cropper….There’s a little place called Marseillan, about 15km from Séte, which seems really lovely so we were going to take ourselves there today, even maybe stay for supper. But carefully laid out plans do not always materialise, as we would find out, but I’m getting ahead of myself… Continue reading
View from Mont St. Clair
Friday, 14 April 2017 to Thursday, 20 April 2017
This morning was Good Friday, and what a good Friday in turned out to be! We were on our way out the building for a walk when a cursory glance towards the mailbox revealed two white envelopes with our names on. Turns out it was the acknowledgement of receipt from the OFII (French Office of Immigration and Integration) in Montpellier advising that they had indeed received and processed our documentation we posted to them a while back. Truth be told, we were rather worried about this step in the process so you can imagine our sincerest relief when we found these envelopes. As Neil Armstrong would have said “A small step for mankind, a giant leap for this man and woman…”, or something like that. Continue reading
Sete Marina
Friday, 7 April 2017 to Thursday, 13 April 2017
Today we read and relaxed most of the day, trying to recover our energy spent on our amazing trip to Beziers and the Canal du Midi yesterday. It was late afternoon, actually early evening, when we went for our first ever walk around the harbour area and along the breakwater all the way to the Saint Louis Lighthouse. To ones left is the marina stocked with plenty of yachts – some fancy some ordinary – and to ones right is the ocean. Continue reading
Canal du Midi
Friday, 31 March 2017 to Thursday, 6 April 2017
I woke up this morning, still in a slumber, when I heard a soft chiming go… damn… damn… damn… damn, it sounded like a xylophone gently being prodded by soft mallets, over and over again, on the same bar. I was not about to go searching for the musician so decided to live with it. When Adri finally came to she said something to the effect of ”Oh listen , someone’s alarm is going off”. Yea, you guessed it, it was hers! Continue reading
Montpellier
Friday, 24 March 2017 to Thursday, 30 March 2017
Rain was forecast for Friday and it was spot-on… we just can’t seem to shake the rain from our lives. For most of the day there was no break in the gently falling wetness so we stayed indoors, trying to get into a working rather than a relaxing mood. Now that we felt 100% settled in Séte it came easier, but it was still a battle of wills, a battle between my will and my mind’s will. Continue reading
Sete
Friday, 17 March 2017 to Thursday, 23 March 2017
The clock ticked… ticked… ticked… oh so slowly… past midnight, it was Friday morning and we were still camped out in the departures hall at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. After trying different positions on different chairs in different areas of the airport we found an area with reasonably soft chairs. We soon enough however found out that these chairs were built to sit on, definitely not Continue reading
Ostrog Monastery
Friday, 10 March 2017 to Thursday, 16 March 2017
Today the wind was at it again and we were mostly inside all day. I say we but I actually mean me. Adri, brave soul that she is, went shopping through howls of laughter from the wind as she stepped outside. She was on her way for a spot of window shopping while I was supposed to get a spot of work done… it did not go well; I continuously got sidetracked by reading and relaxing… and then some. Continue reading