Recent content by Argh

Welcome from another recent addition to this excellent community! I grew up in Ashland and my folks now live in Boring (yes that really is the name!), out east of Portland sort of on the way to Mt Hood. Argh

Venelles is a small town just north of Aix-en-Provence (pop. ~140,000), about 25 miles north of Marseilles and a couple hours from Nice. Mediterranean coast. Really beautiful place to live even if it is a bit crowded. Argh

Thanks, I've been here several years and took french classes for several years 'back in the day' so I'm pretty fluent even though I have that funny ''accent de 'ricain''. ;) Argh

And I appreciate that you intentionally said 'nucular'. :mug: Got my master's degree at NMSU in Las Cruces back in the early '90s. Beautiful country. Welcome from another noob. Argh

True, but don't forget the prices are in euros. I'm paid in euros and despite the exchange rate a euro pretty much has the same buying power as a dollar in the U.S. The exchange rate is for tourists and high financiers. My first reaction was the same as yours but I haven't found better. :(...

Hey all, Been skulking around here for a few weeks now. I'm a 'murrican living in France for the last 6 years. Wrote a freekin' novel by way of introduction here yesterday, but it didn't post, prolly just as well. :eek: Grew up in southern Oregon. Made around 24 batches of extract-only...