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Monthly Archives: June 2013
French Kids Say the Darnedest Things
My joke to my American friends is that the people here are so smart that even the kids speak French. Well, a couple of weeks ago, whilst taking my daily walk, I saw a friend and he was walking his … Continue reading
Posted in Food and drink, Travel
Tagged French, Kids, La Picotiere, leguevin, Marche, Speaking, VCU
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First Flight of the A350 XWB – The Crew Returns
As I mentioned in the previous story, the crew on board MSN1, the first flyable A350 XWB aircraft, was having a great time during the first flight and didn’t really want to return. But they did. And they received a … Continue reading
First Flight of the A350 XWB – The Flyby and Landing
Four hours after it took off, MSN1 – the first flight aircraft of the A350 XWB family – got ready to return to the Toulouse-Blagnac Airport. The test flight went great and the crew were really enjoying themselves and they … Continue reading
Posted in News and politics, Organizations, Travel
Tagged A350 XWB, Airbus, Airport, Blagnac, Chase Plane, First Flight, MSN1, Toulouse
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First Flight of the A350 XWB – Up to Take-Off
For the past few months, I’ve had the privilege of writing stories about the A350 XWB, Airbus’ newest aircraft. If you visit the A350 Magazine or download the A350 app, most of the words you’ll see were written by yours … Continue reading
Posted in News and politics, Organizations, Travel
Tagged A350 XWB, Airbus, First Flight
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Chateau Lareole
Two Sundays ago was Fete des Meres – Mothers Day – here in FR and, for once this ‘spring,’ the weather was great. That called for a drive. My back was/is still bothering me, so a long drive was out … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Travel
Tagged Chateau Lareole, dry moat, Fete des Meres, French Revolution, Haute-Garonne, Layer cake, Mothers Day, Pyrenees, Renaissance
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Springtime – at last – in LegoLand
We’ve had a really decent week with honest to goodness springlike weather. To celebrate, here some photos of pretty flowers – and brain-like thingies – at Chez Newman: To see more pretty flowers, click here: http://sdrv.ms/15SRchL.
The More Things Change, the More…
The weather still stinks. In yesterday’s story, I featured photos from the day after we received about 10 cm/4″ of rain overnight. That followed a story in January about minor flooding. Well, we subscribe to the International Herald Tribune and … Continue reading
Posted in News and politics, Travel
Tagged flood, International Herald Tribune, leguevin
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Newmans of Leguevin 