This morning I went by tram to a place , Place d'Europe, just east of the old town. In my first week here I walked upstream along the river ( to use the term loosely, more like a ditch in places) Lez. Today I walked downstream for about 4 km to Lattes. There was good path along the river. Very quickly I got out of suburbia ( European style, nothing like Australian suburbia) to minor industrial , then just fields. Then back into a created place. They must have artificially widened the river and made a basin with 4 to 6 storey blocks of apartments. Playgrounds, cafes, boat mooring berths. A good place to sit and think about nothing over morning tea. The end of 1 of the tram lines was about a kilometre away.
The 2 waiters at the restaurant nearest me are getting to know me. When i passed on my way back from the tram 1 of the waiters was out the front talking to someone. I said without thinking, Buongiorno. Ah, no, Bonjour. He said to the other person " She comes from australia and she uses lots of italian words." Said in tone "don't mind her , she's a bit odd because she comes from .....". Ah well. After I'd taken my hat and jacket up to my apartment i went into the restaurant and accidentally banged the glass door. The other guy came over and said loudly, in French, Oh, it's broken ! I just grinned at him. It clearly wasn't broken.
Later in the afternoon I walked to the botanic Gardens near me. i pottered round about half of it and decided I would rather be sitting in the shade on my balcony reading my book. 12km was enough walking for the day.
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