Lumpy Takes France!

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"Sugar and spice and everything nice,
that's what little girls are made of!"
- some wise man

For those of you who care, I would like a voucher from here for my 21st, thank you. Betula, go to Betula. I buy from her. Will be giving her my new address shortly. Or you can get it from me. =)

My other blog will be on Sabbathical for the coming year. Though you never know. I may write a surprise post.

Nanyang
Ali
Janice
May aka Vermin
Qing Jia aka Beeboo
Shu
Wei Zhi, Fluffy-puffy-white-little-ballerina-skirt
Xiuhui
Yap, Cuixian (and Adam) aka the Maniams. I would put Adam and Cuixian but Adam's not a Nanyang girl so I can't since this is the Nanyang column and we're very exclusive
Yuling, my Peardrop

S06B
Bird!
Bird!! (The Real One)
Debbie-web
Dipsy
Kai Ling
Rence
Serena!
Xin Xin
Zixuan

RJ and Beyond
Galen
Hui Mun
Sin Yee
Spoon
Vans
Xin Hui

Dawn-ie's brother, Paul
Nick and Nigel
XM's Pam
Ziliang, my cousin

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|| Saturday, March 24, 2007 ||

Sat, 3rd Feb

Day 151: Rochefort

[From left to right - Row 1: Near the Maritime Museum, Old-time Restaurant, Old yoghurt jars; Row 2: Part of lunch, Lumpy at the Captain's Wheel, Old shoes; Row 3: Old pin-together-doll, Grocer's, Collars.]

Rochefort is a French little maritime. Like my own little town, it's quaint but really has little to see. Happily, it has good and cheap seafood. For lunch I had oysters as starters, mussels and fries for my main and chocolate cake for dessert. I will miss France for her 3-course meals.

Anyway, highlights of Rochefort were the Hermione, Pierre Loti's house and the Musuem of Old-Time Commerce.

The Hermione, nothing to do with the Harry Potter series, is a full-scale model of a ship. It has always been my secret desire to be a sailor's wife, so going on the Hermione was a momentous and meaningful experience for me.

Pierre Loti, if you didn't know (I certainly didn't) was a famous French author, born in Rochefort. He had a house there. The house was stunning. Very eclectic. He imported bits of a Mosque from the Middle East, his first love's tombstone, tapestries of mediaeval barons and chunks of a torn down church and incorporated them into his property. No photos allows, but he had a nice house.

Museum of Old-Time Commerce - a picture says a thousand words. I will post a few so I'm sorry for not being more succinct.

[The Haberdashery, The Grocer's, The Chemist's]

[The Butcher's, The Cleaner's, The Hairdresser's]