Public Address | Cafe | Island Life: Unfettered and alive https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address jon_knox https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-unfettered-and-alive/?p=27614#post27614 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-unfettered-and-alive/?p=27614#post27614 Where can a person go when all the world cup shouting grows too loud? You might consider Paris. We have been here since Saturday and have encountered it only un peu. If they learn that we are New Zealanders, people seize it as a conversation point, but the nation is,… ]]> Sat, 15 Sept 2007 21:15:56 +1200 Mrs Smith https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-unfettered-and-alive/?p=27245#post27245 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-unfettered-and-alive/?p=27245#post27245 Tue, 11 Sept 2007 18:02:24 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-unfettered-and-alive/?p=26896#post26896 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-unfettered-and-alive/?p=26896#post26896 Thu, 06 Sept 2007 20:38:26 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-unfettered-and-alive/?p=26895#post26895 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-unfettered-and-alive/?p=26895#post26895 Thu, 06 Sept 2007 20:37:26 +1200 InternationalObserver https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-unfettered-and-alive/?p=26834#post26834 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-unfettered-and-alive/?p=26834#post26834 IN THE WORLD!! (ranking just below the Olympics). It never ceases to amaze me what… ]]> Thu, 06 Sept 2007 10:42:44 +1200 Rebecca Williams https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-unfettered-and-alive/?p=26832#post26832 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-unfettered-and-alive/?p=26832#post26832 droooooooooool ... the height of my criminal career was smuggling french sausages, cheeses and heart-breakingly cheap bottles of red back to london on the eurostar ...

i second robyn – more stories please.

]]> Thu, 06 Sept 2007 10:32:18 +1200 andrew llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-unfettered-and-alive/?p=26827#post26827 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-unfettered-and-alive/?p=26827#post26827 Thu, 06 Sept 2007 10:25:55 +1200 Jeremy Andrew https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-unfettered-and-alive/?p=26823#post26823 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-unfettered-and-alive/?p=26823#post26823 Thu, 06 Sept 2007 10:21:58 +1200 kmont https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-unfettered-and-alive/?p=26821#post26821 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-unfettered-and-alive/?p=26821#post26821 Gleefully envious.

Yes, me too.

]]> Thu, 06 Sept 2007 10:14:28 +1200 Robyn Gallagher https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-unfettered-and-alive/?p=26813#post26813 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-unfettered-and-alive/?p=26813#post26813

We are in Montmartre in an apartment three floors up old wooden stairs with a wrought-iron balustrade.

If the entire post had only consisted of that sentence, I would have been just as gleefully envious as I was after reading the whole thing.

It sounds brilliant. More la Vie d'Île…

]]> Thu, 06 Sept 2007 09:40:04 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-unfettered-and-alive/?p=26809#post26809 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-unfettered-and-alive/?p=26809#post26809

It gradually dawned on me as the butcher carefully sliced, pared and minced, that she had meant: I'll be a while. My pride was the butcher's gain. I improvised something else to buy. Merci, au revoir.

I think I'd be inclined to regard watching a good French butcher preparing meat…

]]> Thu, 06 Sept 2007 09:25:43 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-unfettered-and-alive/?p=26808#post26808 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-unfettered-and-alive/?p=26808#post26808 Discussion from blog post.

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