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Living it up down south
September 30, 2005

My favourite holiday destination ever, is surprisingly the south of France. The département of Var to be exact. This year we spent a fortnight in a small town called Seillans (Sey-on). Inland, where we were, the prices were generally very reasonable, except in the "gatronomique" restaurant, where the menu was so flowery you couldn't understand it. Let me rephrase that. The menu was in French (which I hope I have a good grasp of, especially doing A-level French), but it wasn't simple, say it was a steak, it wasn't "Steak Diane", it was "A delightful tender steak in a sauce of...". It confused me

All in all, Southern France gets a double thumbs up, we got back and had next years holiday in France booked within a month. Although we are going about an hour further along the coast.

Other Side of the World
September 30, 2005

Well, it really wasn’t the other side of the world, just the country. But my favorite vacation was when we went to visit my Aunt in Medford, MA when I was ten years old.

It was my first time in a plane and I just had to sit by the window to see everything. The pilot told us we were going over the Grand Canyon and I couldn’t believe it. It looked so little! Just a line drawn on the earth from way up there. The entire country looked just like one of the relief maps we got in school, the ones with green and brown and various shades colored to represent he many types of land.