SO I just returned from a lovely if not typical Auvergne meal with my BDE Friends, and, while packing for a weekend trip to Dublin, it hit me! My fabulous, exciting life had become, dare I say it, a touch boring. Scheduling flights, taking pictures, reading my travel books until my eyes turn red, it was all of a sudden, passe. Okay, at this moment I know all of you are waiting for me to get back to Canada so you can smack me, but it's true! It seems the extraordinary can become just that- Extra Ordinary. I hoping a couple hot sips of Starbucks and some books in English will boost my spirits about my truly fascinating host country. I will say that I have become Canada's little expat Joan of Arc (Jean D'Arc over
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