Before Sandy’s run, she reminded me when it was March 15th, not May 15th!!!!<\/p>\n
A typical day at the gym. The rowing maching\u00a0I wanted was in use, but then I remembered that they only use it for a minute or two before they go back to reading their papers.<\/p>\n
Then\u00a0after rowing, I wandered into the weight room where there were towels on every bench but only two\u00a0benches actually in use, just\u00a0keeping them in reserve, of course.<\/p>\n
Speaking of papers, as Christine explained the other night (and as we had discussed at Alliance Fran\u00e7aise), what paper you read really says much about who you are, your politics at least.<\/p>\n
Liberation, for instance, is Socialist-Communist, Le Canard Ench\u00e2ine, cynical leftist (perhaps, radical-syndicalist, I’m not sure), Le\u00a0Monde,\u00a0centrist-leftist and Figaro, which we read, (as Sandy is doing in the photo) but\u00a0mostly for the arts and the like,\u00a0centrist-rightist. It appears from the\u00a0centre\u00a0to the left, the French really don’t think much of Sarko, one friend even claiming, without reservation,\u00a0that he’s a cocaine addict. (Qui sait?) Sarko is causing a stir now by proposing to extend the TGV high-speed train through Aix-en-Provence, beautiful Cezanne (and Zola) country. Much protest about this, sufficient to make them rethink another route along the coast.<\/p>\n
Sandy’s unreliable forecast (le M\u00e9t\u00e9o) has already been wrong today as it is most days, but more relevant as we are going for another walk, followed by lunch. Natch, calling for no more rain today, it rained.<\/p>\n