Random jots

Le Bord du Mer

Sunday Streets
Last Sunday, they closed down the main road through here for recreation. Everyone could go for walk, ride or play games. There was a jumping castle, pony rides, a kids gym, and battery powered racing cars for kids. No stink, and loads of space. How nice would it be if it was permanent.






April fools

Nearly at the top, 800m

The no. 1 favourite trick here is the fish of april. That's a paper cutout fish which the kids colour in, and then stick on someone's back. So, every kid at Louis' school came out ready for action with a couple of paper fish.

For Ollie, it was red dots on their faces. Every kid in the whole school had the measles! I only saw Ollie and his dotted face. Marie explained he's got the measles. Gee I'm a sucker.

The boys sort it out

On TV, they ran some old jokes. A report annouced the transformation of part of Versailles for public housing. It was to reduce homelessness, and increase supply of housing, in areas where there was vacant space. They delivered it so straight faced that it got groups of protesters out on the streets. Another one showed half the Eiffel Tower being helicoptered away for maintenance.

School lunch is in the canteen
We were talking about the kinds of food they get at the school canteen: the different kinds of entree, cooked main and desert.
So I told Ollie how we always had sandwiches for lunch at school. "They served you sandwiches at the canteen??" he said in horror. Having a sandwich for lunch is unthinkable, only if you really don't have time to eat properly eg when you want to go for a bike ride, hiking etc for a couple of hours.

St. Jeannet and the start of the walk to the Baou.

I always had my sandwich packed in my bag before leaving home. And I had to explain that canteens didn't serve cooked food. Ollie after thinking for a bit "...for real???"


Bushwalk to the Baou
The Baou of St Jeannet is the towering chunk of rock that sits looking over the Var river near Nice here. The village is about 300m altitude, then you walk up to 800m height. Not bad for the littlies. The view around is great. It's amazing that it's so close to town.