A change in latitude, does wonders to my attitude.

On a Saturday morning on July 27, 2019,  as I was going down the stairs in my apartment, I absent-mindedly missed two steps on the staircase and crashed landed onto the floor.  It happened in a flash, one moment on the stairs and the next, sprawled on the ground. The excruciating pain shot through my leg foot as I grasped it tightly, waiting for the pain to subside. Then I limped into the kitchen and pulled out a bag of frozen peas to ice the sore foot. Seeing that I could still slightly move my toes and that the pain was tolerable, I mistakenly believed that I had narrowly escaped a broken foot.  I have always thought that if you can move your fingers or toes, then nothing is broken. And if something was broken, the pain would be so unbearable that you would be tearing your hair out. With that self diagnosis concluded, I held off going to Emergency and thought that the injury would heal over time. I had a summer BBQ party that same evening and had promised to prepare two dish

Part of Vieux Port July and August are months when things grind to a halt in Europe, well, most of northern Europe anyway.  Summer heralds endless festivals like beach parties, concerts, music festivals and some very well known ones like Tomorrowland. European airports are thrown into chaos and highways like the A7 in France -also known as the Route du Soleil- get all choked up with motorists driving caravans, SUVs, cars piled with kids, pets, suitcases and bicycles, all heading south in search of destinations in the sun. Alcoves along the Corniche My trip to Marseille happened to be at the very start of July and to do my bit for the environment I took the TGV high speed train. Travelling at 300 kms/hr, Marseille was a mere 5 hour train ride from Brussels. On the train, there is a bar serving sandwiches, snacks and beverages, electric outlets for your smart gadgets and wifi ; the connections almost never work though, so I switched on to mobile data instead. I stayed at t