I got robbed

[adrift_etc]

Yup! That cool thing that happens to everyone every once in while has happened to me, at this time, here in France.

My amiga did come pick me up and I'm sleeping on her couch so I didn't have to pay for a hostel.

I met her parents, and we had a very good time on their porch, looking out at a landscape peppered with stone outbuildings, talking more and more boisterously about the state of the industry!!!! and drinking some popular French schnapps that tasted like liquorice and looked like foggy Tropicana.

 

So far the French breakfast of a cup of coffee and three cigarettes doesn't suit me. I think I'll never be a smoker.

 

I've been reading Lolita on the beach. I also managed to find a 'free book' box on the street at a market at the docks, where I was also given a sample of the local caramel recipe and a jar of spicy chiles.

 

Every driver we pass who drives at a reasonable speed within the lines is condescendingly called 'an English'. The French drive like they're on the set of a Bond movie.