Aici sèn pla

This blog started as a daily record to mark our fifth year at Segala. Daily it did not turn out to be but after the year I have decided to continue as an occasional diary - after all I do still like it here or "aici sen pla".


Its our fifth year living at Segala. I have decided to try to mark this year with a daily post ( some days it will be just a photo) of our life over the year. I have trawled my brain for witty titles without success then I remembered the slogan on the T shirts at the fête in Espinas in the summer.


A friend translated it from the occitan for us. It seems to mean something along the lines of I like it here. Very apt for us, "I like it here " is a refrain we use to each other at least daily so that's the plan - Aici sén pla - a year of daily musings from a contented retired expat who thinks herself damned lucky every single day.


Tuesday, 12 September 2017

Reborn


It is one year tomorrow since our interviews for French naturalisation. On 25 th April this year we became officially French citizens (with dual nationality) and today we went to collect our official papers from the prefecture in Montauban. The papers include our decrees of naturalisation and also French birth and marriage certficates. Now we can get our French identity cards and apply for French passports - we will remain proudly European come what Mayhem!

Many of our visiting friends and family over the summer have remarked that we have clearly found where we belong in our home here. With each year that passes ( we have now been here 7 years) we feel more at home, our social life is crammed and we have made so many good friends - here's to many more happy years to come!

                                                      aiçi sén pla
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