Ignorance or Arrogance?
You might be behind a curtain stuffing your face like I am but cultural respect goes a long way. »
You might be behind a curtain stuffing your face like I am but cultural respect goes a long way. »
August 2010 - Dubai -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So, down to the last few hours here in Europe. Just over four weeks has gone by and it was almost time to start our extended journey home, but before that we needed to have one more last swim in the Four Seasons pool, it’ »
August 2010 - France -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Next time we’re going to listen to Thomas and not the the Hotel Concierge who told us to take exit 57 to Nice (he even highlighted it). That was the scenic route, but the scenic route takes you halfway to Monaco, to the road »
August 2010 - France -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cannes (compared with Nice) is SO much easier to drive to, drive in, park in… well you get the point I’m trying to make. In Cannes, Mum and I had a priority 1 and priority 2. Jimmy Choo… Prada. Right now I’m having »
August 2010 - France -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It’s taken 25 blogs for me to finally be in some familiar territory. Today was the day that I would return to Provence. French drivers are more impatient than Italian drivers… just saying. Driving to Nice from Monaco was surprisingly quick. We stopped once »
August 2010 - Monaco -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Things are slowing up. It now takes over two hours to get going of a morning. An hour to get ready and an hour for breakfast. The changing of the guard was 1150 and even with a taxi we didn’t arrive until just before »
August 2010 - Italy/Monaco -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Those cute little birds didn’t get the best of us this morning. We made sure our table was nowhere near where they clearly enjoyed perching. Jonno joined us for breakfast, kind of a last supper before everyone went off in their different directions »
August 2010 - Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Breakfast up on the terrace was going wonderfully. The cute little birdies were out with the sun, the view was spectacular and the fried eggs were just what I needed. This was until one of the cute little birdies deposited something on my head. My »
August 2010 - Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For starters one cannot predict the weather here. Yesterday and last night was cold, like cold in my jumper cold. The converse came out of the bag for dinner and everything. So we were prepared for the worst today but after a quick breakie stop »
August 2010 - Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10am - Dash to Mont Blanc (finally opened) to purchase bag. I described it to the shop assistant and his response was... > "That’s a man’s bag." My eyes narrowed. It's a business bag for a 13 inch laptop. »
August 2010 - Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Embracing the true Milano Sunday meant that we must be as lazy as all the shopkeepers that don't open there stores today. And so nothing happened today before 11am and even then nothing was high intensity about this day, well except for the »