First from France.

These keyboards...one must hold shift for a full stop! I will be staying in a variety of places and have already dissolved enough coffee for five stout Englishmen - I shall return addicted and aged! Tomorrow I will set up a new account for Euro notes, Blogger account that is. The school of art appears by the river and it is both calm and daunting - these are serious comic artists.

I must leave now to meet my host Caroline, I am babysitting her son this evening [something of an initiation process for fresh Pommes] and she will be out front in a matter of minutes.

I have written a lot and listened a lot. I shall speak this language!