Well this is a little late in coming, but hey I'm living in France and it's rubbing off on me! Well I'm back in Nantes, back to work after a nice 3 week vacation. (thank goodness for the strike! I'm anticipating the next one and going to have a party) New Year's in Paris was ok, the wind was blowing hard on the bridge next to the Eiffel Tower which made it rather cold, but we were happy to chat it up with a really sweet Venezualian couple while drinking real French champagne from the bottle. However, about 3 minutes before midnight, we started noticing that the crowd, and I mean crowd, was moving and pushing us off the bridge and we discovered it was police evacuating the bridge. Why? We don't know for sure, I
... read more