Christmas in Grasse

So yes, despite the many attempts on my life made by various groups of bandits and ninja pirates, I did in fact survive Christmas and even got to spend it with some cool people. Christmas is a great time to spend with family, and though I missed out on that aspect I did get to hang out with some awesome people and experience a traditional French Christmas with a French family.

Vincent and Nichole are a married couple working with Justus and CA here in the south of France. Vincent (or Vinny) is a true Frenchman born in Orange, while his lovely (and quite pregnant) wife Nichole is as Scottish as they get. Well, actually I'm not sure about that, but her accent is amazing. Combined they make a great couple, Vinny wearing his Christmas kilt made my night.

Vinny's family was there as well, his parents speaking absolutely no English and his sister kind enough to speak a little with me, made for a very French Christmas. To top it off we had Foie Gras, duck liver turned pate (and they kill the duck by over-feeding it during the course of two weeks). That, the foie gras, and the live oysters made it quite memorable. The liver spread was good, the oysters I'll try to avoid in the future. But spending all day at the table isn't a bad Christmas tradition no matter what you eat.


It was a great time, I absolutely loved it there. Their house is practically a mansion, three stories with a swimming pool, crazy huge for a guy who's spent the last three months in tiny Euro-apartments. It was just nice to relax outside of Nice and to crash/watch movies for a few days. I'll add pictures but you can look at more now if you want by clicking on the link under "photo albums" on the right.

And sorry this blog's kind of cliche, here I did and where I did it blog blah blah; I'm getting kind of bored with the regular re-counting of events. I'll have to come up with something more creative in the future. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!