so here i am living in france again. long story, but basically a random job search one day on craigslist showed an ad "Castle Manager-France." I'd settled myself into working at the restaurant for the summer but was occasionally looking cuz ya never know...
i replied with a letter and resume and we were a match and here i am. my hosts are an interesting couple (she's american, he's english) who own a few properties and wanna step back a bit from their castle to focus on other projects. that's where i fit in.
i'm gonna be running the day to day stuff at Chateau d'Alogny, a castle which originally dates from the XI century and then was added onto a lot in the 1500s and today it's still going strong. there is actually a stone that is archaelogically significant that is like a thousand years older than the castle. more on that someday.
it was kind of a crazy month preparing to come and while interviewing i asked a friend of mine for advice and he asked to sublet my apartment. that's when i knew it was meant to be. so everything fell into place and i landed here last friday May 6, via IcelandAir (yea, i got to see the plume of the volcano on takeoff). the airport in iceland is very small but lots of glass/steel/wood. i landed at 2am NYC time but it was 7am in iceland and they didn't bat an eye when i ordered a glass of wine with my breakfast!! it was good sauvignon blanc too. an amazing open-face sandwich of salmon gravlox with boiled egg slices with a honey mustard sauce. wonderful.
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