This year’s end-of-year concert for the benefit of the members, volunteers, professors and students at Le Relais Peiresc (the largest cultural center in Toulon), was fabulous. Music was provided by the Toulon Navy Jazz band, and the conductor was, himself an accomplished musician.
The band was very spiffy in their dress whites, and they put on [...]
A couple of weeks ago (see? I told you I was behind…) there was a kind of Handicapped Fair in one of the parks here in Toulon. All the different agencies that provide services to the handicapped showed up and had booths where they could share information about who they are and what they provide.
Alain [...]
And again, this is a little late! (Although we wished him Happy Birthday on the day)…
But my brother-in-law’s birthday was a few weeks ago, and we went to his family birthday party. I got to meet his mother, her husband and Bruno’s nephew for the first time.
Bruno’s nephew has recently joined the marines and he’s [...]
There has been so much going on the last few weeks that I haven’t had time to post… So I have things lined up to share with you… And it’s good stuff!
Lets start with the wonderful train ride we took a couple of weeks ago…
A friend of ours invited us to go [...]
We went to a wonderful dinner party earlier this week, and had a lot of fun. It was at the home of Christian and Martine. Christian is an artist – and in fact, he gave Alain one of his paintings as a birthday gift a couple of years ago, and it’s one of his most [...]
So we took a drive up to Bormes Les Mimosa. Although it’s February, spring is already starting to bloom. And Bormes Les Mimosa is, to me, the best place to celebrate it!
The Mimosa trees are in full bloom and seeing them is like looking at flowering sunshine.
Bormes is a fun town to visit – partly [...]
Tonight we were invited to a cockatail party at a friend’s place. She lives high on Mount Faron (the mountain that is north of Toulon), so she’s got a fabulous view of the city and the Mediterranean was spread out like black velvet, with a few jewels gleaming in the light of the three quarter [...]
The Abbey du Thoronet (pronounced “tour-oh-nay”) is one of those places that many first-time tourists don’t know about – it’s a place that you’d usually be shown by a friend or family member who lives on the French Riviera, which is just one of the reasons I love it! And it’s always one of the [...]
After the rugby game on Saturday, we were invited to a wine-tasting party at one of the places we like to go when we’re buying Christmas presents for someone special. (In other words, a little expensive). They had the Beaujolais Nouveau bottled just for them, and so we had wine and got to taste little [...]
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before – but I am on Twitter – and I posted about the Beaujolais Nouveau celebration which starts this Thursday and then did a twitter search, to find out if anyone else was talking about it- and to my delight, lots of people are!
So I’ve decided to create [...]
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