Heros of the Week Expat Stories from the South of France
Barefoot Blogger · Expat Living and Real EstateUpdate to yesterday’s blog, “One Step Forward, Two Back“. Lucy needed a new battery after all. Hoping to drive to Nimes to deal with my lost phone at SFR, I went to the parking garage to pick up Lucy. Soon I discovered the battery was dead … again. […]
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