Destination Europe


Do you ever do something without thinking too much about it, thinking all is going well, that you’re doing the right thing, only for it to turn into a complete nightmare? That seems to happen to me quite a lot. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been dealing with a wholesaler of organic cotton [...]

Sergi Lopez is one of my favourite actors. I’ve seen him in loads of movies and will go to see a movie just because he is in it. So when I heard that he was doing a play in Paris I bought tickets immediately. The play is called Non Solum and is playing at the [...]

The first thing I noticed upon arriving in Germany was how big the people are. Not only big but huge! Very tall and very fat and no wonder, they eat constantly. Not that I have anything against fat people, I happily consider myself to be one, but it was a definite (and pleasant) change from [...]

I managed to make it to the Prefecture 10 minutes before it opened and was 16th in line, so only a short wait before I got to speak to someone. My carte de sejour was supposed to have been printed on the 30th October 2006, after applying in June, and it possibly was but I [...]

I’m back from Germany and back to the Prefecture. I still haven’t received my plastic carte de sejour and my paper one is about to expire – again. I’ll have to go to the Prefecture (or Sous Prefecture to be exact) and see what’s going on. Last time I was there they told me it [...]

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