SchoolFriends

I find this reunion site rather fascinating: Welcome to SchoolFriends Australia & New Zealand!, but there are hardly any new people from my school years or uni. It's free to sign up but emailing through the site costs but you can disguise your address in the profile text. It seems I missed one of my primary school's physical reunions but maybe contemplation from afar is safer!

Camping at Gorges du Verdon

Le Tour is on with lots of Aussies riding so good to watch.

I have been trying to organise our mailing addresses as the Post forwarding service runs out in August. It's not 100% anyway - we had problems with ING suspending our accounts.

I have just been back to the Gorges du Verdon for the third time for a camping trip with Judy, Ann, Kathy, Alison and Stephan and 9 assorted-aged children. Unfortunately we got a long series of thunderstorms come through which prevented much activity. Missed out on rafting and hiking but we managed a walk along the gorge road and up to the chapel on the roc in Castellane. We all swam in Lac Saint Croix before the drive home.

We climbed up there - with young children so not as hard as it might look. We also ate a simple meal at the Hotel in the bottom of the picture.

New photos in France posted at France 2004

Played tennis today in nice warm sun but still quite cold. Also went for hike on Friday with four Swedish women, Fleur, and an English couple who used to live here. It was up near Seranon off the Route Napoleon.

We have a lovely Peugeot 206 again, light metallic grey this time. Already it has acquired a dent in the bonnet (if it wasn't there to start with). We parked in the Decathlon carpark in between the rows and went in for tennis balls and a blow-up mattress and that's when we think it may have happened.

Discovered today that the statistics on my website tell you where viewers are referred from.
Danny Yee has linked my page! And Camilla has a new site!

I've run out of space at my free geocities site. I think I could take down my Europe 2000 pages as the photos are pretty poor.

Almost finished rereading Almost French - Sarah Turnbull. Now have to wait a couple of weeks for my new Amazon.fr order to arrive.

Today found that The Guardian online has monthly weblog recommendations.
This one Mzansi Afrika > is by a South African and mentions a conference in gated communities around the world. As we are now living in a boom-gated "domaine" with 24 hour security presence this could be interesting.

From an article in the SMH on weblogs I found this link (no Aussies living in France except a Lesbian woman and her lover)
Aussieblogs Webring

So I just thought I could note where I've been link-wise recently. Today I looked up the "sorry ever after" lyric to find out what 74-75 refers to. The song, by Connells, doesn't seem to mean much except it mentions the years 1974-1975.
Also looked at the Eurosport website and it is slightly better than the newspapers in presenting a more balanced diet of sport than the major male ones but not much better. Flicking though our channels I have found that the Motors TV (which used to feature moslty obscure Australian motor sport) has been replaced by a Belgian French channel RTBF.

Also been looking at photography sites - have to remember to ask Sam or Susan again for her website.

Yesterday we ventured out to Menton (the long weekend in Haut Vaucluse had gone by the by) after the end of the lemon festival. We had a short walk in the old town centre and cemetery with Russian princes and Webb Ellis (we didn't find his grave but an unstable section was closed) before retiring for a seafood lunch by the sea.