"There must be more than this provincial life" aka Saturday night in Brive, c'est la fête!

Despite the somewhat skeptical title of this blog entry, what I actually have to report is that I spent a lovely evening drinking beer in the company of some wonderful couchsurfers and other tag-a-longs who, in the space of an evening, have made Brive into a much more live-able place. Ron and I had arranged to meet an Italian couchsurfer, Cecilia, who is studying here in Brive, she'd invited some others too but we expected that it would be just the 3 of us, och well, off to have a beer and a chat we went. We ended up being 12 I think: myself, Ron, Cecilia, a Mexican fille-aupair, 2 Spanish interns, a Bulgarian volunteer and 5 Frenchmen.
I don't think I had realise quite how much I missed that kind of social interaction until I was walking home and suddenly realised that I felt massively relieved and excited to have met such a lovely bunch of people. Who new that there were these friendly people around just waiting to be met, eh?