So East it's Ouest

I technically live in the department of Lot-et-Garonne (the names of the two rivers) which is the old region called Aquitaine but I am right on the northern edge of...you guessed it Gascony.  Aquitaine has its own list of cool places and people; Eleanor of Aquitaine (cough she started chivalry), Bordeaux, lots of ducks, the town that was used as the basis for Beauty and the Beast but this is a post dedicated to the ancient wild beautiful region called Gascony. Who do you know from Gascony?  Uh I don't know a certain man called 'd'artagnan'.  Just kinda a big deal, not only because he is made fun of for being a gascon but also because try as he would he was very gascon.   Yes they speak with a cute twang, adding a -g- to the ends of words and yes they are friendly and different from other French from different regions.  Like the south east this region spoke a language called Occitan long before it spoke 'proper french' making it sound much like Catalan but not qu...

  Ahh so it's only been 4 days but 4 days of a massive amount of change.  So let's see...  First off may I say again Lucia {loo chee ah} (the Italian sister I'm staying with) is amazing, if this system continues I hope I'm as hard working, selfless, positive, classy (cough and as good of a cook cough) as her, she really is a gem.  She could say 'tonight we are going to eat boiled shoes' and I would say 'yum sounds delicious, I wonder how she is going make that', it's like she walks into any kitchen (other people's houses included) and walks out with a 5 course meal and a patisserie style apple tarte.   She is actually in the process of working out how to rent this house to 'curistes', people coming here for the spa, the thermal springs, and she is going to move in with her sister in Sicily.  This is the family's longtime home and the home she shared with her husband who died a few years back, you can tell it's super hard on her to...