Home is Montreal

Spring break brought this French Canadian family to Hollywood for some beaches and fun . . . and the Los Angeles Galaxy Major League soccer games. The parents are both mining engineers and have searched for minerals all over the globe and thus are authorities on living on just about any continent. Even remote Northwest Territories -- and Africa.
Plus, she figured out how to light the quirky Fawlty Towers gas barbeque grill for Stan's sausages --- even though she's not that kind of engineer.
The kids have been enjoying lots of West Coast activities, but now it's back to school in Montreal.

Grumpy
Parisians?

French is their native tongue, but of course, they speak fluent English. We mentioned that threee Parisian gentlemen had recently departed the Fawlty Towers studio apartment and that they had complained about what a grumpy place their hometown was. (Nikolas at right)
These two cosmopolitan professionals agreed: If you want to go to France, go to Normandy where folks are nice, they advised.
We said we thought Parisians were cross with Americans because they don't even attempt to speak their language. No, that's not true, our French Canadian friends said. "They're cross with us too."
"But you speak French," we countered.
"No," they laughed. "We speak the wrong French."