Cena Italiana!

As you may have noticed, should you happen to be one of the (regretfully few) regular readers of this blog, we are quite fond of Italy. Mathilde is pretty much fluent in Italian (having done her Erasmus in Perugia), but I’ve got a fair bit of catching up (in spite of my one year of basic Italian at the Farnborough College of Technology). So this year, I’ve been taking Italian evening courses (with, believe it or not, a half-Swedish teacher!), so trying to say something in the local lingo in Italy would be a bit less of an embarrassment.

So, last week, we had our B1 exams (I guess that would make us “not totally crap” at Italian or something – the levels are A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 and C3), and all passed. So to celebrate this glorious achievement we decided to have a meal out. Our original plan was of course to go to an Italian restaurant, but the only authentic one in Cagnes-sur-Mer has unfortunately shut down. Since other authentic options we were aware of would mean going faaar away (either Antibes or Nice), we ended up going to a classic French place called Santa Ana in the Saint-Laurant du Var port instead.

Anyway, it was a pretty good choice, with some very nice seafood for pretty decent prices. We had a brilliant night out actually, finishing the meal at around midnight! A nice bunch of people all in all, I am looking forward to seeing most of them, hopefully, next year, for the 3rd year (and the B2 exam in one year!). That is, assuming the centre cultural gets taken over by the “Federation de MJC” as planned… (there are some “financial issues” to overcome, or so I have heard through the grapevine…)