Just a quick update for the start of the year. Max and I went to a little town in Italy called Ventimiglia on Friday. It's basically like San Remo. It has a market on Fridays and we wandered through in the morning after our cups of coffee and croissant. Unlike San Remo though it was absolutely freezing! I had a scarf with me but it was doing absolutely nothing for me so I actually ended up buying a new one in anticipation of getting some heat back into my neck! Fortunately it was 15 euro well spent!
The only other significant purchase of the day were sky rockets from a hunting and fishing store. We were just looking around the town and happened to see a few fire works in the window. We looked inside and in the cabinet with all the ammunition for guns were these little packets of sky rockets! Better yet, it was one euro a packet and each one had 12! So we set off back to St Jeannet with 60 sky rockets!
New Years eve was pretty cool really. We set off about half of the fireworks when it was dark at 6pm. Yes... It gets dark in Winter early - don't forget how lucky you are for sun and warmth at this time of year! We took about an hour to set off the first half and when people turned up we had an amazing dinner! Basically it was like a second Christmas lunch. Beautiful!
When midnight came around and time for the rest of the fireworks, Jens, who is one of the people who came around slipped a little package out of his jacket and what should it be? Yes... more mighty cannons to make craters in the ground! Pretty lucky really since, you know, we were totally starting to run out... The fireworks here are amazing. I really dislike New Zealand for banning them!
the new year started off amazingly. We fired up the wood oven and all made our own wood fired pizzas with buffalo mozzarella, prosciutto and all sorts of other goodies. It went down rather nicely with a good beer.
That's all for me. Keeping it nice and short. Next time you hear from me I'll be in Wales having just met my two new flatmates and learning the ropes to my job. I'd love to hear about what you've been up to for new years eve too!
Until then, happy new year everyone. Have a rocker for 2012!
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