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Impressive

Q – What’s more impressive than discovering the supermarket sells half liter cans of Paulaner? A – Discovering the place you’re renting has a half…

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The Bureaucratic Blizzard, a giant elephant and some really great weather

During our visa application process, we had our first taste of French bureaucracy and felt that we had only just scraped the surface, thinking that the…

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A castle, some stinky cheese and where did all these smokers come from?

So, our first full day here was lovely, even if the weather wasn’t. We’d been out the previous evening to the supermarket – just past…

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France – the first 48 hours

Well, here we are. We had our first full day in Nantes yesterday, wandering the city to orientate ourselves and confirming CA’s enrollment for school….

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