As we have 2 weeks holiday for Easter I decided to go home for a few days for some family time, food and of course to catch up on tv gems like 'Toddlers and Tiaras' and 'The JK Show'. Luckily while waiting at the airport I made friends with an American boy who saved me from having to sit next to one of the fattest families I've ever seen (drinking Coke and eating mini Twixes, of course). It was nice to have a few days away from Montpellier and to just have a bre...

After almost 4 months of living la vie Française it was time to return to the motherland. I decided to take the train rather than the plane to avoid the inevitable being sick that follows early morning travel. LA decided to accompany me to London so we boarded the TGV at 14h24 in Montpellier and headed for Paris. About an hour from Paris the train pulled to a 'layby' and the driver announced that there was some sort of 'police intervention'. After 40 minutes of ...