A New View on the World

We have been living in France for almost 17 years, and in that time, if we wanted French TV we had to look at it on our phones. We're in a shadow here, so any aerial to receive it to our TV would have to be 20' high, and provoke the council.

As I wrote two weeks ago, our TV was on its last legs. Luckily a TV came up on the soldes at SuperU for 99€, and Susan bought it with our shopping. We still don't get French TV through the aerial or the satellite, but once I sorted out some WiFi issues with a range extender we now get French TV via the France TV and TV1 apps.

To celebrate, we watched a 1970 musical film "Peau d'âne" ("Donkey Skin" in English), a French fairy tale by Charles Perrault about a princess who disguises herself in a donkey's skin to escape her father's incestuous desire to marry her.

It was... interesting, and it's nice to have French TV, but it will be a while until I next venture into the world of French movies.