Author Archives: JJS

Weekly Post – April 3rd

Living through a pandemic in the south of France 381 days in Carcassonne since 1st lockdown in March 2020 ▫️ DAILY AND WEEKLY STATISTICS HERE . ▫️ Last day of relative freedom. The 3rd confinement period is starting this evening … Continue reading

Posted in Health and fitness | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Walk – Plateau de Leucate (II)

Very pleasant walk today in an area we have been to before. This time however we started from the very village of Leucate. and made our way up to the Plateau de Leucate. It is not a hard walk even … Continue reading

Posted in Health and fitness, Hikes | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Welcome April

APRIL – A few Quite Interesting things… 🔸 APRIL CALENDAR April 1 is All Fools’ Day—otherwise known as “April Fools’ Day.” April 2 is Good Friday. April 4 is Easter Sunday. (May 2 is Orthodox Easter.)  April 12 marks the start of Ramadan (beginning at sundown). April 22 is Earth Day. … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Daily Post Special – April 1st

Living through a pandemic in the south of France 379 days in Carcassonne since 1st lockdown in March 2020 ▫️ DAILY AND WEEKLY STATISTICS HERE . ▫️ Following the allocution from the President M. E. Macron on Wednesday evening, it … Continue reading

Posted in Health and fitness | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

New T-shirt

No comment necessary

Posted in Photos | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

Something to read

Over the past few days I had no problems reading the book from Florence which I went through in one go non-stop. But then again I have always like real life stories about the sea and sailing. This one, although … Continue reading

Posted in Books | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Walk Sentier Sculpturel

Despite an extremely strong wind, “un vent à décorner les boeufs” as we say in French “which literally translated means “a wind to knock off the horns of oxes” or simply a wind that will blow you away, we went … Continue reading

Posted in Hikes | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

Nostalgia of the 1950s

Old photo of my mum and dad in the late 50’s (maybe early 60’s)

Posted in Memories and Nostalgia | Tagged , | 3 Comments

Souvenir 2014

Another long day at work. Never liked stand duties.

Posted in Memories and Nostalgia | Leave a comment

Third wave

As planned, the Prime Minister and the Health minister  have announced, yesterday afternoon,  a tougher response to the virus in the most affected areas, notably Île-de-France, Hauts-de-France and part of Normandy. We are quite lucky, in a certain, way in … Continue reading

Posted in Health and fitness | Tagged , | Leave a comment