Bitterjug’s blog

On Saturday I moved into my new appartment; more on that later. On Sunday I went to visit my new Spanish friends for Paella and a lovely long afternoon of talking, lauging, playing cards and even some dancing…

Oh, and I forgot to mention, Sangria, wine and whisky.

When I go down to coffee with my French speeking colleagues, I try to follow their conversations. I’m not very good at it yet.  The easiest ones for me are those that involve my Australian colleague who speaks French slightly slower and, I guess, with a different accent, from the locals. I followed his comparison […]

I share my new office with Cristina from Spain. Over various coffee breaks in the last week or so I have told her the stories of my teaching experiences in Kenya. Today I came in to find this stuck up on the wall behind my desk:

Here’s an idea for a Firefox plugin, in case I ever find myself with the time and inclination to write such a thing…So many sites have black text on a white background. It makes my eyes ache to read a lot of text like that — I have just been reading today’s Guardian article about […]

I’ve kinda forgotten to mention a couple of cool things I’ve done at the weekend since I got here:

Last weekend I borrowed a bike, from Jim at work (thanks Jim!), and went to Saint-Germain-sur-Ille. Not because I wanted to visit that village, but because, as you can see if you look to the left of […]

Here I am in Rennes, Priscilla took this pic and emailed it to me from her mobile phone. I confess to still being a bit impressed by stuff like that.

The fountain is in a small square in Rennes, with one tree in a corner that gives shade over its one bench. The head looks as […]

I found one.
Its here on the map (two buildings to the right of the arrow), central location, close to the station but on a quiet street.
Here is the building (3rd floor, on the left)

Nice kitchen:

Nice view of the park, and all those windows open.

It’s not quite as big as that pic makes it look: I […]

Here are some numbers…
In case you fancy calling or texting me while I’m here.
Mobile: +33 698 56 18 03
Work: +33 299 84 72 81
Home: +33 256 03 84 37

That last weekend before I left, I went out dancing at Jitterbugs in London, there was a 21 piece Big Band — the Compaq Big Band — visiting and they played three fabulous sets. I just love the sound of a really big Big band. And it makes me go mad on the dancefloor.
Here are […]

Chris asked for some google map references in his comment on yesterday’s entry.
Work is here; well actually just North of that white curvey building where the grassy patch is, in a block that wasn’t built when the aerial photo was taken.
And I’m staying here, just to the left of that marker. This morning I got […]