Yeenli Lau
ASIN: B00PP5FNK2
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 114
‘Les yeux sont triste… ’The purest truth emerges when you have had three drinks too many in a foreign country, in a bar full of locals conversing in their l’accent du sud, and you feel compelled to comment to its owner about a dog with the saddest of eyes.So there I was in Sète, a small ‘working man’s port’ by the French Mediterranean. Unlike the Côte d’Azur west of Marseille, this other stretch of the Mediterranean is characterised more by fishermen, struggling vintners and the Canal du Midi, than glitz and glamour.I was talking to my Airbnb host, Michael Leeds, about how pet owners are free to bring their (reasonably clean) dogs to establishments such as this, whereas the cops would have been called in Malaysia. We were on our third glass of rosé, each, after having ‘sampled’ three glasses of the local Picpoul de Pinet white (which, Michael made sure to tell me, went particularly well ...