What are the sorts of food that you won't eat? As I write I realise that there are many people who cannot eat certain types of food because of religious, ethical or health reasons. But what about the food that you just don't like ... I’m looking to enroll in one or two cooking classes in France. At the moment, of course it is summer and everyone is on holidays, but there are … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2015
A day in the Life: Summer in Sicily
Note from AggieB: I was supposed to spend a week in Sicily with a friend and her family. I didn't make it because of work, but Cynthia is posting on Facebook and making us all jealous. I asked her to write a guest blog for Agatha Bertram, describing a typical day ... Eat. Swim. Sleep. That about sums up our days. There have been seven already here in Sicily. The town is … [Read more...]
A Japanese Holiday
A few years ago I was living in Obihiro, a city that is in the middle of Hokkaido. I was in Japan at the time for motorsports purposes. Mum and Dad and Aunty Jenny came to visit me in Japan in the autumn, when the leaves change colour. They are all good travellers, despite their well documented struggles with luggage (Eleven Luggage Lessons). Heading west over the … [Read more...]
Je ne comprends pas!
While I’m in France I’m supposed to be learning French and I want to, I really do. I’m spending a lot of time here, and it would help in so many ways if I could speak French. First I had the idea of doing an intensive French course at the local university in St Etienne. I went to talk to the course controller and he advised that there was a class starting in ten days … [Read more...]
Long Flight, Focus, Read, Remember
A while ago, I was working in the Foreign Service. My job was to pick up a Federal Minister from the airport in Rio De Janeiro and get him to a Summit that Australia was involved with. Wracking my brains for small talk I said “how was your flight”? “How was it?” he replied. “Well I got on at one end, flew for a while and then got off at the other end”. I thought … [Read more...]
