New Year in Nice

Often, New Year's eve involves travelling somewhere for us, but we figured we'd done enough travelling recently, and decided to spend new year on the Cote d'Azur this time around. Luckily, Chris and Aurore invited us over to their place to celebrate the arrival of 2017 together with them, Marie and some other friends of theirs.

It was all great fun! The food was fantastic, as it always is at their place, starting with a very classy aperitif, and crowned by some very tasty "christmas logs". There was a great carnival feel to proceedings, with giltter, balloons and other colourful stuff being thrown about.

We finished the mad evening with a very funny game, which involves one person reading out a more or less mundane phrase (less mundane meaning something rather rude/dirty) from a card, and then each participant selecting a more or less mundane word or expression (less mundane meaning rather rude/dirty) from a set of cards, which basically makes for the most funny and/or disgusting sentence. Sounds simply, but oh my is it fun (especially after a few drinks).

So, a very nice way of welcoming 2017, I reckon, even if some of the changes 2017 brings are kind of scary (what with a Trump presidency, looming Brexit, continuing massacres in Middle east, just to mention a few things...). Stay positive, I say!