France

Quick, quick, fax an ambulance… Photo taken near Calvi on Corsica, France. Maybe ambulance means something different in french, most things do, regardless the sign looks funny!
From me and my two companions, Harald and Øyvind, arrived at Bastia Airport until we were installed in our rented appartment in Calvi it took no more than two hours. Two hours during which we managed to collect our luggage, hire a car and drive it to the opposite end of the island. Calvi, a […]
You have to hand it out to the French – they have no sense of embarassment at all. Allthough shock would have been a more likely reaction, happiness over French entrepreneurship and sense of business was what filled me when I paid 11 € for 1 liter of pure water in the park at Chateau […]
In addition to the splendour of the hotel Negresco and its fashionable neighbourhood the most prominent feature of Nice is the enourmus amount of dog piles in the streets. What I found most remarkable by the Casino was the toilets. They had a large panel of flashing lights indicating different programmes for flushing. I hadn’t […]
The hotel it turned out was situated almost at the Place Pigalle – which is a very busy area for small scale business activites with typically one male employee commonly referred to as “the pimp” and several female employees carrying other professional titles. There are so many things to see and take in when in […]