Yesterday I moved into my new home. This was not without challenges. Even after a week of tossing things out, recycling, consolidating and air mailing things back to New Zealand I still seem to have a lot of stuff following me. I do not have my jumbo pack any more. I concede that I am […]
It was with a heavy heart I got aboard a train bound for Toulon this morning. In a sine wave of highs and lows the torrid trip to Toulon last year was a bottomless crevasse of torture. I did have a good reason. A job interview. The train rode to Toulon through the freshly drenched […]
On Thursday and Friday of last week I took the prudent steps to gain a licence to drive small boats or tenders. As the world becomes more regulated it is wise to have some sort of qualification for driving small boats. Previously I only had some bush lawyer advice from another New Zealander. “You only […]
Sit back in your chair. What happened after my reagents took hold? What sooth did I see? What insights did I glean? Firstly a visit to Spain is loooong over due. Barcelona is only a few hours from here by car. In my minds eye I traced a visit to Spain in a car I […]
After five days of furious work I thought it would be prudent to delve into the arcane and conjour up a future for myself on my day off before my tender driving course. My spell included, -8 cups of coffee-Six slices of wholegrain toast with MARMITE-A Heroes marathon, about 9 episodes if my hazy memory […]
My dreams of being a artist of leisure, writer, DJ, short film maker, performance mockist, Swedish lesson maker and cultural ambassador in the Riviera turned out to be only that. Last week was a very positive one in Antibes. We nested in a small hotel after our wonderful weekend in Nice and set about selling […]
On Friday past I took my caravan of trinkets, treasures and niff nafs and headed towards Nice. My mission was to set up a temporary gypsy fortification inside a hotel, get up the lay of the land and be prepared for my fair maidens arrival by aluminium bird(plane). Nice is actually quite cool. It does […]
An epic amount of good luck has seen me being able to leave my job and begin a fresh start with my Wife. When you are as happily married as we are, seeing each other for only 2 months over the next year was always going to be a stretch. We did it tough last […]
Last night I ventured out with our Senior Deckhand to show him some of the sights of my second home. Kai is a German who moved to Spain at the age of 17. This is a charming mix, after subjecting himself to the terror that is the Euro vision song contest we left at the […]
Note: I wrote this supplemental before El Fuerte left me. Now he has gone I thought it was time to tidy it up and publish for his merriment and hopefully yours. The continuing revelation that is El Fuerte deserved a supplemental entry to help explain this smouldering enigma from Spain. With more research I have […]