First week in Grasse 2010 09 03

  • Beth helps Sallie out with the hair job.
  • Packed and ready to go.
  • Last phones calls....
  • Our new kitchen in Grasse. Had that new fangled induction thing that didn't work.
  • The view from the living room.
  • We had an upstairs and a down stairs.
  • The steps up and out.
  • The front door.
  • Not even a lizard in the bide
  • The spare room.
  • Ta DA! We have a front door.
  • We also have a gate. This is Theo going to work.
  • Work is that way, up. Always up or down in Grasse.
  • A man and his sign.
  • A man and his office.
  • Sallie joined me there. Mostly for the Internet I fear.
  • Got to Lisbon with only some difficulty due to the strikes.
  • Check out the bath tub!
  • ... and the sink!
  • They really liked statues in Lisbon.
  • Here's one leading onto campus.
  • Andreas was serious as always.
  • Peter gave us the bad news with a sense of humor.
  • Dave gave us opinion, but he *is* from Cambridge.
  • Olivier was French at us.
  • Peter and I played hooky one day.
  • A local Lisbon street.
  • Square down town.
  • Where he belongs....
  • Local Church. Their normally is one.
  • There's normally one of these too.
  • Tiles my wife would like.
  • More freaking statues!
  • View from the fort at the top of the hill.
  • Lisbon has a big hugging Jesus just like Rio!
  • A fighting man's castle.
  • View through the battlements.
  • Peter found animals.
  • Note the local fauna included peacocks.
  • This is what I et paid to do.
  • See... real peacocks!
  • A the damn round table discussion. These *never* work.
  • See how much Vincent and I are enjoying this?
  • Ah the second course of the nine course meal. There was dry ice involved.
  • Course three I think. I missed some.
  • That thing in gold is an egg.
  • Made from pigs feet. Yum.
  • Lamb and peas! Double Yum!
  • Two happy and full, scientists.
  • A last read and drink before I fly back to Grasse.
  • Meanwhile, they are hard at work observing by remote control.
  • It is serious work.
  • This is what Sallie fed herself in Theo's absence.
  • Some flowers Sallie liked.
  • More flowers Sallie liked.
  • Sallie *likes* flowers.
  • Guess.
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