Aix-en-Provence, France

I know I seem to be skipping around a lot here and not writing for a long time, but the problem is that I have a few items to post on my laptop, which is at home where I have no internet. When I am at work, where there is internet, I do not have my laptop. So, I will skip ahead to my upcoming adventure in France and, hopefully later today, I will find time to post about my more recent adventures.

On Wednesday, I will land in Aix-en-Provence, France where I expect to get up to much mischief with my friend JenMac over the course of the next few days. I have never been to that part of France before and I am a bit nervous about purchasing my train ticket to Aix, as I have no idea how to pronounce it. Also, I think I just have a slight complex when it comes to buying rail tickets in France anyway, due to a previous embarrassing experience: I can speak French well enough, but when I go for long stretches without using the language I tend to forget key words that I would normally know. Like the word for "Tuesday". One of the first things you learn in French are the days of the week and for some reason when I was traveling in France a few years ago and trying to book a train ticket for the following Tuesday, I completely forgot the word for Tuesday. Instead, I managed to say (in French, I might add) "Not Monday, but the day after" and the lady at the counter looked at my kind of funny and said "Mardi?" and I said, rather enthusiastically,"Oui!!!!! Mardi!!!!!" and managed to successfully book the ticket.

Anyway, I am really looking forward to travelling in another country for a bit and France is one of my favourites. I am not sure what we will get up to, but there has been some talk of hiking, visiting Avignon, and of course plenty of French cuisine (aka baguettes) and eau de France (wine).

See you soon Miss JenMac!!