On each of our visits to our little ‘bird nest of love’ (as one of our local helpers puts it) we have vowed to rid ourselves of a rickety little stool that came with the apartment. I could imagine a guest, or one of us for that matter, hanging by our finger tips from the topmost shelf, the now collapsed …
As you may know it is considered polite here (i.e. obligatory) to greet the person you meet upon entering any store, restaurant, practically anywhere. The greeting above is appropriate unless the proprietress is actually a proprietor. Let me explain. During a grueling climb up the Stairway of Death (it actually sounds much better in French) I met a person going …