Expired "invitations"

The invitations to become a "member" and post are only good for 1 month.  If yours has expired and you want to post, just email me and I'll send you a new one.

Wow - Anna Kay - I never realized that you took my room. I lived in the little garret room first until whoever was in the street-floor room vacated. I remember having to kill a huge black spider up there. Mme and Monsieur always sat in the kitchen, and I had to go through the kitchen to get to the bathroom - a bit uncomfortable to say the least... always had to stop and chit chat a bit - in and out.
Re: dorm showers. Where I moved to had minimal bathing facilities, so I would go occasionally to the dorms to take my shower - with a little bag for toiletries. Once when I had (luckily) just finished rinsing my hair, the caretaker turned the water off on me. I had to quickly dress and drop my bag out the window, down four floors and hightail it out of there.

Help! I Can't Remember....

Who can tell me what BEC stands for? I'm pretty sure it's an acronym having to do with the student restaurant en ville, but for the life of me, I can't remember what it stands for.

Robin's "Attic" Bedroom

This was my assigned "room" at 68 rue du Château d'Eau. I could be in this room until 10pm, at which time I had to go downstairs to sleep in Madame Ducruc's salon. Notice the obligatory impressionist artwork on the wall. I still have that Larousse Dictionary. The storage for clothes was a single armoire barely seen in the left of the photo. There is a sink to the right. My journals state that Gayle and Ginger would come up to brush their teeth, since the only other place to do that downstairs on their floor was a sink in Madame's tiny kitchen. I had a hot plate, too! On the right side of the room there are some big windows that I could reach to open. In the winter, I could buy yogurt and set it outside to keep cold.

St Jacques de Compostella

Anybody want to walk to St Jacques de Compostella en partant de Pau (ou de Bordeaux, ou de plus loin...) ?

http://www.aucoeurduchemin.org/spip/
http://www.chemins-compostelle.com/Leschemins/leschemins.html

The Debayle Family

This is me (on the right) with the kids from the Debayle family, who lived at 10 Cours de Gourgue, near L'Esplanade des Quinconces (or as they called it, L'Esplanade des Quinze Cons). From the left is Philippe, Françoise, and Gérard Debayle.

According to my memory, journal entries, and letters home, I spent nearly all my free time with them and their friends beginning in January, after the winter break.

This photo was taken during the Easter break near Biarritz, where the family had a villa. Gérard loved to hike and, in subsequent years, would organize trekking expeditions to China, Afghanistan, and Tibet. Alas, I have lost touch with them, much to my regret.

Bois de Boulogne

Leslie, Anna Kay, & Linda