I made it

Yessss, I made it. It was a very long drive and I have had to more or less walk around barefoot with a big bandage on my foot due to a blister that developed while driving but otherwise all is well.

Grenoble is beautiful and sunny. On my way driving into Grenoble I stopped to see friends from way back. Our sons went to play-school together.

Then I spent the first day and night with neighbours planning their upcoming trip to Australia. It sounds like they are going to see more of Australia in two months than we have seen so far in four years.

Right now I am up in the Vercors staying with some other dear friends.

We went for a drive to a place where we were supposed to see all the mountains around here including Mont Blanc but just as we arrived there was a cloud cover which just wouldn't go away. So all we could do was to look at the poster to see where the different summits were supposed to be and enjoying our sandwiches in the sun anyway.

Tomorrow it is time to get down from the mountain and meet the rest of the neighbours and have a meal with them. I am very much looking forward to that. I have such fantastic memories of years gone by when we always had a yearly barbecue. Sometimes I wonder if the planning of these barbecues were not the best part. I was always the one who was supposed to bring the ice cream. Maybe I wasn't quite trusted with the other important ingredients. Trust me to get even that wrong the first time. I really got into the ice-cream shopping and bought all sorts of delicious ice-cream, praline and cream, cookies and cream, coffee, strawberry etc but what my dear neighbours only wanted really was lime sorbet. Guess why? Well, that is the one you need to make a Coupe Colonel, which is lime sorbet with, in this case, a very generous helping of vodka over it. You should try it, it is a great summer dessert and it hardly gets any easier than that.

More to come! Much more!