COUNTDOWN - COMPTE À REBOURS - 17 days-17 jours-17 días

Quelle est une journée parfaite? Une randonnée de 13 kilomètres, tôt le matin avant que le soleil ne sorte de pleine force.  Un après-midi à faire des choses sur la liste interminable de "choses à faire". Tondre le gazon pendant que le soleil se cache, et trempe en nage, aller se mettre les fesses à l'eau sur une grosse pierre dans la belle Baie, déguster une bonne bière, et regarder et écouter tout ce qui se passe autour de toi. I am blessed!


I have been brushing up on my Spanish an hour a day; fed up with Duolingo though.  Too much repetition. Oh wait! Isn't that how you learn a language?  Boring cognates as well, words that you already know what they mean, because they are so close to the French or English language. Hello? Realidad, situación, biblioteca,
piscina, comprender... Did you know you already know 50% of another latin based language because of the one language you have?


Speaking of languages, unfortunately, I will not be translating everything I write in English, into French, or vice versa. I would love to have a bilingual blog but economies of time just do not allow it. Writing my blog on my Iphone is excrutiatingly painful compared to doing it on my laptop. I may translate the odd headline but "c'est tout". So don't skip paragraphs if you are bilingual. Continuez à lire. Ça sera du neuf. Merci à tous de votre compréhension.

My impetus for doing The Camino?

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time she is a flying.
That same flower which blooms today,
Tomorrow will be dying".

 Robert Herrick.