Laurie
- Website: http://www.smallworldjourneys.com.au
- Profile:
- Laurie is an American freelance writer living in Cairns, Australia. Laurie is also co-owner and Managing Director of Small World Journeys, an Australian eco tour company. She has studied in France, taught English in China, and has traveled in Africa, Asia, Europe, Central America and the Pacific Islands.
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Such a welcome from the French was unusual. We had just driven up along the French-Italian border from Nice and the Riviera, where waiters corrected our grammar and shopkeepers could not be bothered to utter a merci. Conversely, Tende seemed eerily pleased with our presence. For a moment we thought we had unknowingly exited France, and slipped over the border into the care of French-speaking Italians. Somehow this anomaly town called Tende, like the wild boar, had wound up on our plate.
