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The life of a French dog

12 Sunday Aug 2012

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This trip is the first time that I noticed the importance of the canine species to the average French person. I don’t know where my observational skills were for all those years of visiting, I know that I am seriously one of the least observational people that you will ever meet, but in this case I’m flabbergasted that I had never noticed the life of a French dog until now. It is that blatantly obvious, I guess that I was seriously distracted by other things. Don’t remember what though.

French dogs are allowed everywhere, I saw them in the Galeries Lafayette, a huge department store. They were involved in the daily shopping done at the open marche where the habitual stand owners knew their loyal customers by name and the type of cheese their dog liked as a treat. I saw the little pooches sit at the table with their owner at cafe’s and brasserie’s. Dog owners walking up to each other, while their respective dogs got to know one another, would compare notes and exchange stories.

It is incredible how much the French people love their dogs, it warms my heart. I love my two dogs, Rex the German Shepard and Jack the Jack Russell Terrier, and seeing all of these happy dogs makes me miss my two even more. I can see Jack happily strutting his stuff along the Promenade des Anglais here in Nice. I can visualize Rex laying next to our table majestically for everyone to admire, he likes it when we admire him. This grand life for dogs is another plus in the retiring to France column, the pluses are by far outnumbering the negatives.

Hooray for the Artiste!

27 Monday Feb 2012

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I stayed up past my bedtime to watch the Oscars to the very end and I’m glad that I did because I got to see French actor Jean Dujardin win for best actor and his acceptance speech was charming, witty and so very Gallic. I was just as thrilled when the French director won for best director, just hearing French people speak English makes me happy. When the Artiste won for best picture it was so sweet and sexy the way that the French director turned to his wife, who was the female lead in the movie, and he thanked her for her love, her support and he then said, that she was the light of the movie, the soul of the film as well. It was so very romantic and I think the French accent really made it even more romantically dramatic.

I am sure that George and Brad were disappointed but they are both handsome, rich and talented so I don’t feel that badly for them and I am sure that they don’t begrudge Jean Dujardin his Oscar, from what I understand of his performance, it was a statuette well deserved.

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