Day 1419 (Tuesday) 27 th April 2021. Shock horror, it was overcast this morning but at least we didn’t get the showers that were predicted. Huw kindly gave me a lift to the Prom because I had to go to the school before the Marriot to pick up some paperwork from Anna. Avenue Jean Medicin (the Oxford street of Nice) was deserted and all the shops were shut From there I caught the tram to the hotel. Gilles and I had a lovely chat in the conference room on the seventh floor for 45 minutes before going downstairs for a coffee. Gilles had invited one of his colleagues to join us and she was a delight. I didn’t catch her name but she is just 22-years-old and oozed confidence. She works in the Marriot three days a week and studies for her master’s in accountancy two days a week. Her English is impeccable and I was amazed to hear that she is Russian and has been in France since she was 5 and she is trilingual. These three languages are so important here because there are so m...
