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LEISURELY, lazy Sunday morning in Nice consisted of a European breakfast of ham, cheeses, breads, homemade apple confiture (like US apple sauce) and Gloria’s elderberry jam, accompanied by the coffee Italians are famous for. We sat on the balcony overlooking a quieter street, which we watched and listened to it also waking up! Eventually there were church bells chiming from various parts of the city! FUN!!
Later we will head off to the beach. I’m trying to get internet access with intermittent success, as Gloria is interested in seeing what real estate might be available on Cape Cod. I found four possibilities in Barnstable before I lost the internet! C’est la vie!
Before we left for the beach, Gloria made some hazelnut cookies from this interesting cooker that was her grandmother’s! The hazelnuts were from her trees; last year she had gotten about 80 kg or 176 lbs. I told her she was like Martha Stewart!
(Clough, by the way, yesterday was the PERFECT opportunity to say “Quel dommage!”, when Gloria showed me the pillow stuffing all over EVERYTHING!:))
And there was a wonderful breeze to keep the beach very bearable. Of course, that meant that there was considerable surf, so it was TOUGH (read scary) to get out! I went in twice; the water was great, but I got several mouthfuls of salt water trying to get out! The life guards actually called everyone out of the water for a while. Elsa, Marco, and their three children, friends of Gloria from Milan, were there, so she talked with them; I mostly listened.
Later tonight-it is now 11:40!-a 20 year old named Gul from Turkey is coming to stay overnight. Gloria met her in her French class. To save her the cost of a night in a hotel, as she flies home tomorrow, Gloria invited her to stay here; she may be here at 2AM….
Tomorrow we’ll head back to the beach to say good bye to Elsa and Marco and all. Later in the day we’ll meet up with Kathy, a Nice Couch Surfer.