Well...the beer is actually better in France. They share a border with Belgium, ya know....

Ah, yes. I know the area you mean, although I haven't traveled through there. We took a trip to the south of France earlier this year and the closest I came to you was somewhere on the A6. I'm hoping to

Thank you, Nobyeni. That means a lot to me. 🧡

I love this, Kitty Girl. Especially the montage of old photos. How handsome your parents were!!! You dad looks like a movie star, with that square jaw and cleft chin.

I'd be lying if I said I never stop beside that alley at night and wait to see if a ghostie comes walking down it. 😂

Thank you, Bluefin! :-) You know what's sad? I have a really nice Lumix camera just sittin there on a shelf staring at me. I know it's wondering why I keep using this iPhone camera to take photos of this

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Oh my GOSH I'd love to try some of that jelly. I've never even heard of a beach plum, but I'll bet that makes some good eatin'.

I'm so glad you adopted a black kitty. :-) Thank you for telling the story about this in PYPT.

BTW, what part of France? Michel is from the north, about an hour from Lille.

Steemfest is a big Steem conference they have every year. This time it will be in Bangkok, and I won't be going. But I went last year when they held it in Krakow and it was amazing.

Heh. Alas, no conspiracy in this. It's a general policy that all rental car companies have adopted to protect their assets--they can go after a major credit card company if the vehicle is damaged or lost

Thank you, @joe.public. I do enjoy giving feedback to people about their writing. It can be very rewarding. It's people very unlike yourself who make it too challenging to be truly helpful. I'm glad I

Thank you, Jayna.

Yep, sista, you and I agree that the long game is where it's at. So make good on your threat, please ma'am: keep writing! You create stories people want to read. Just because they didn't get published

Captainbob! I still have your business card in my wallet. Thank you for being interested in our project. It's a slow go sometimes, but the fact that we're still here and still solid says a lot I think,

I wish you could have been a fly on the wall as Michel read this just now. I don't know if I laughed harder at the things you said about him or at Michel himself laughing at the things you said about him.

No, no--that's not quite it, thank God. I found tickets that I could have afforded, but knew I couldn't get a rental car from the airport so there was no sense buying them, and I didn't have enough internet

And maybe some day soon, I can set enough alarms, brew enough coffee, and bang on doors loudly enough to get you up and moving before five p.m. so you can actually go swimming....🤣

The craziest thing--I went to school with a girl named Elizabeth Harvey. She and I never had a really close friendship, but I always liked her. It can be chilly here, yes, but oddly enough that's the one