July 9, 2018: Toll booths

We drove from Bayeux to St.George’s-de-Didonne which is along the Atlantic coast. The motorway is a toll road ... we paid almost 40 Euro so that we could make good time.

Unlike past trips, we were able to use a credit card to pay. Before the U.S. credit cards had chips, we were pretty much a cash-and-carry vacationers as we stayed in small towns. A pain at the toll booth, while cars piled up behind you because I had to drop 20 Euro into a machine, one Euro at a time.

The European credit cards have had chips for many, many years. 

My conversational French?

Bordeaux, July 25, 2018

I just came back from shopping for dinner.

My conversational French is this: 

Bonjour! = Good day!

Bonne journée! = Have a good day!

Bonsoir! Good evening. 

Un = one (ooon)

Deux = two (dew)

Battery = Battery (with a French accent, says the guy at the camera store. I had to ask.)

Cul de sac = because I live on one.

And what I perceive as a jibberish question with the Trump’s name in it, to which I always answer Non (no), to which I get a big smile and a pat on the back. 100% so far.

June 26, 2018: To Bee or not to Bee?

“To Bee!“ to paraphrase a line spoken by the great Austrian and Trump needler Arnold Schwarzenegger. So, there’s an artist in Dublin who goes by the catchy moniker Buzzy Be. http://thecircular.org/street-art-in-dublin-follow-the-bees/

His work lives just down the street across from a Starbucks. About a block from where we are staying.

For a moment, The Fresno Bee’s Scoopy thought he could get in on that action, but I thought I‘d get arrested for busking without a license. Save the Bees! No really, save the Bees. @buzzy.be

#beeabroad, #scoopytravels, #Dublin