| In '98, undeterred by our Italian
      experiences and near-murder, Wolf was full of romance again. This time, he
      said, it would be different. He would show me 'Sunset over the Med'. The
      med! Nice, stories by Colette and those other French writers, Somerset
      Maugham and so on! My literary heart missed a   |  beat! Bolero bus went that
      way, on its route to Spain. We could get off at Narbonne. Fine. We had
      survived the visit of my Cuban penfriend from Miami, and did not yet know
      that she would return in September to become a permanent part of our
      lives. But the Med held more than we bargained for!  |