Today's photos of winter...
>> Wednesday 9 December 2009 –
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Winter has vastly improved since moving here.
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Welcome to my blog. This started life as the story of my move to Nice, France in 2009 and my day to day life there.
It then went through a phase of part-time expatness, and ended when I left France in 2011. After a period of commuting between Paris and Nice, in June 2013 I find myself back in Nice full-time, and so like Lazarus, the blog has risen from the dead...
If you're specifically interested in my jewellery-making, find out more at http://nicolehill.fr.
It then went through a phase of part-time expatness, and ended when I left France in 2011. After a period of commuting between Paris and Nice, in June 2013 I find myself back in Nice full-time, and so like Lazarus, the blog has risen from the dead...
If you're specifically interested in my jewellery-making, find out more at http://nicolehill.fr.
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