Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Skyping to Sanary

Jim was on Skype today with a fellow in Sanary who is putting together things for the Huxley Symposium in 2020.  Looking at the bougainvillea while I'm composing this it almost feels like we could be in Sanary.  Certainly one reason we love our desert home is because there are so many things that remind us of the south of France.

To think now how it is free and so easy to communicate with email, sending photos, talking on Skype.  When we were doing our house/car exchanges beginning in the early 80's,  it was a question of writing letters,  sending hard copy photos,  and expensive long distance phone calls...no pennies a minute as you can do now.  For our 1997 exchange to London,  I remember the bill for the call was around $75.  And that's not counting the $80 or so we had to pay to register in Intervac for the privilege of listing our home for exchange and receiving  a printed catalogue of listings.  All worth it for the wonderful experiences we had!

Canary,  no dear google correct...not Canary but Sanary is where Huxley wrote Brave New World.