Photo Xav in France

Hello Everybody,

I don't know how to start,...we are in France with Olivier and went to see Xav few times. Here is the castle were mister Xav is staying, ...not bad? Below is his room.

Obvioulsy the first time we saw him was a bit difficult, since we haven't seen Xav after his accident but, I have to say, the 2nd and 3rd times were really nice. The good things is that he recognises everyone, and even if he does not talk much, he understands everything.

We showed him a lot of photos of people of Shanghai and his reaction was great. Most of the photos were from Greg and Emma's wedding, and he remembered HFZ, James, Vincent, OlivierP, Yann and most of us!! We talked to him about Bacchus Wine, and the fact that Pierre-Henri has started in Shanghai, ...the only word he said was "apprendre" (=learn). We told him we were training him, and kicking his ass to sale more, that actually made him laugh!!

The following day, we came with some wine reviews and we "talked" about wine, naming some famous appelation, and clearly we could telll he can not wait to dipp his lips in a good glass of wine, ...hopefully! Funny thing is when we asked "tu te rappelles cette teuf a Shanghai" (you remember this party in Shanghai), his anwser was "putain ouais!!" I'm not kidding!!

The great thing is as soon as you start talking about party, wine, good times he totally connected with us, and it was like he couldn't wait to go back to it!!!

We also gave him our wedding invitation and he seems to be quite touched, as his mum tried to put it away from him to have his dinner, but no way, he started to "argue", and after few minutes Emma heard him said "extraordinaire"...we didn't know what he wanted to say till we ask him "was is extraordinaire? The food, ...naa, the fact that we are all here, ..yes, but naa, ...the invitation, the wedding? ...ouais!! Last time we saw Xav was at our place in Shanghai and told him we were getting married in October!

What else to say, so many things...when we went to see him with greg and Emma's kids, the girls had prepare a small bunch of flowers, home made, ...when Oceane gave it to him, ..."ouaaaah, merci"; he sounded so touched!!

What else, ah, yes, the great news is that he went to do some "char a voile" (in english, i guess it must be sand sailing ???) with Greg and Emma, and they walked him to the sea so he could dipp his feet, ...I leave it to Emma and Greg to show you the photos and videos they took last thursday...as you can see Xav is doing great progress every day, and it does make a difference for him to see his familly, friends...When we showed him the cars, we saw his eyes, we asked him "hey what are youdoing mister, you want to run away, ..he looked at us witha big smile!!!

I have only one thing to say, if you are in France, go an visit him, if you are not in France send him photos or DVD/films of you. We just bought a DVD player, so he should be able to watch it all!!