ALBI, the BEAUTY of this region…where the Toulouse Lautrec m
Albigenses
the members of a heretical sect in southern France in the 12th–13th centuries, identified with the Cathars. Their teaching was a form of Manichaean dualism, with an extremely strict moral and social code.
This word SAUDADE is for the portuguese speakers ONLY!
It is one word that says a thousand words or more…. but it is lost in translation in other languages.
This is a time when you really need need to talk in Portuguese…
MY SISTER Lucia Macedo Dantas FOUND OUT ABOUT THE First University Troisieme Age here in Toulosse! Super l!
Off to check it out and practice my french!!!
Irish Blessing
“May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back.May the sun shines warm on your face, may the rains fall soft upon your fields, and, until we meet again…may God hold you softly in the palm of HIS HAND.”
I thank God for my husband Martin John Gooda to share this dream and live it with me.
We thank God for our four children, Daniel Christopher, Andrew Mark, Nina Gabriella & Thomas Michael to be good and behave and forgive us for leaving them behind in the United Kingdom!
we are really proud of our children! They are kind, caring and like contributing to the world by helping others, taking care of themselves and we love how increadibly close they are with one another!
Parents should be proud of their children!
We are very much so….
and we miss their company above all!
Martin and Nina Gabriella in Paris!
The sunshine autumn day inspired them to take a long walk …from Porte Maillot to Franklin Roosevelt…Champs des Elysee
Arch du Triomphe … Place the Concorde and Clemenceau…
Stopping to enjoy the Seine Riviere …
The Louvre is a MUST ALWAYS and here we are …NOTRE DAME
Meeting mum after her french classes and lighting the candles praying for the whole world…
and now Nina has to take this picture! Thank God it is time to stop for a glass of wine or two …our feet is killing us all!
Learning French it is not easy as I thought… my teacher Sophie makes it seems so easy and when I get to practice on the streets…oh my God!!! How embarassing! Not fun! But the french have been putting up with me…
But if I keep practicing ….
There are always someone with time like the lady in the picture …happy to see I am trying to learn french regardless…
GOODA-TREK 