Hi @leaky20, I didn't get a chance to greet you a Happy New Year. Hope you had a joyful and peaceful one.
As for us, this would be a Christmas and New Year we will always remember. We're quite lucky to be one of the few resort villages that received electricity two weeks after the typhoon. Many of the houses here still have no power.
Being cut off got families worrying. We had no means of telling them we were fine until we asked a friend who was traveling somewhere with a one-bar phone signal to send an SMS to family. It was like living back in the 1900s with candles, lamps, collecting buckets of water, and hearing news of what's actually going on from people traveling. The upside to it though was being able to see a firefly for the first time.
Happy New Year to you as well.
Wow that's all so crazy. I can't even imagine.
With electricity it would be like living g back 100 years ago.
It's great that you are able to stay so positive despite the situation. It's very inspiring.
One evening, just at the brink of the neighborhood's refrigerators getting smelly, the neighbors cooked all of the seafood and shared food at one long table over candlelight. The topic of living 100 years ago came up and what we were experiencing must have been similar to that and then we opened a bottle of wine and toasted despite the grim situation. Thank you, I just couldn't help sharing that.
That sounds like a nice experience among everything else that was going on. It's nice when people come together like that and are able to be thankful despite the situation.
It was quite nice, we sort of forgotten about the aftermath and the pandemic even for just a short time. Hope all is well over there in France.