A warm and Sunny Day in February
It was not a “Dark and Stormy Night” – but a bright and Sunny day today, so we went to the seaside to collect some seashells for my Mum.
Not much more to say really except “Wish You Were Here” and show some photos or Marseillan Beach and Marseillan Town (the beach is on the Mediterranean and the Port is slightly inland on a huge inland sea-lake.
Marseillan Beach on the Mediterranean in Languedoc
Marseillan harbour Entrance Languedoc France
Marseillan Port
Front Entrance for Villa Roquette
We collected plenty of sea-shells, but could not get a stick-of-rock for my Mum.
Eiffel Eyeful
January 4, 2010 by tony · Leave a Comment
- Image via Wikipedia
I thought I had written about this before. When you are in Paris you can book your ticket for the Eiffel Tower online and print it out. This official service is at Tour-Eiffel.fr
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Be Seeing You
September 11, 2009 by tony · Leave a Comment
It is a sad fact that the Internet is plagued by people who derive pleasure from destroying the work of others. I have had my websites attacked and destroyed several times since I started online in 1997 and it has discouraged me from giving services where there is any risk for the users.
To broadcast some notes on Life and Living in France I mainly use a “blog” at www.Twiku.com this is a site which got mauled earlier ths year and, although it is now fully restored and cleaned out – many databases still list is as “dangerous” – this means if you have some security software on your computer it may be “flagged” as having a virus. It is checked by Google and other whitehat services every day and has a complete clean record since August 26th – but it may take 3 months to get all records updated.
I have another blog at www.FrUk.eu this was a (slightly) tongue-in-cheek site about my Real Etate efforts and is subtitled “New Bricks and Pantiles” as I am an Ian Dury fan – but the name of the site, if said out loud, may be misinterpreted so I don’t use it much.
For the next couple of months I plan to be forwarding most of my mutterings to the www.FrUk.eu site – hope to see you there.
It Is Good To Be Back
August 21, 2009 by tony · 3 Comments
What a week – Friday already and for the first time in over a year I have sat at my desk every day to begin to relearn how to use a computer.
One big change is that I am now all Apple – so most of the programs I have been using for over twelve years are not relevant, new text editors, new file management systems – I’m not sure my brain can cope with this – the big benefit is that I no longer have to suffer the slings and arrows of Microsoft – I once thought I could not use a computer without Firefox, but,believe me, Safari rocks.
Where have I been since last June? For the first three months I was trying to help a company who rent luxury apartments in Paris, I thought of them as friends and believed they had a good service and system, boy oh boy was I wrong. After three months it was as clear as crystal that they had no intention of paying their debts and the information I had been given was a pack of lies. So back to the sunny South of France and I totally immersed myself in getting our rambling old house into a good, high quality commercial venture. From next week you can come to our home in Montblanc (by the Mediterranean not Mont Blanc in the bumpy bit in the middle of Europe). I have started to build a website describing what we can offer at VillaRoquette.com We hope to share a glass of wine (or three) with you here soon.
An interesting year – but it is good to be back again.
