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The last thing he was expecting was to have an amazing experience in retirement. Already a French student, he had returned to study at the University of Newcastle, where he was able to complete a Diploma in Languages course. It didn’t enter his mind that he might become an international university exchange student – but he did. So started an extraordinary experience studying at the University of La Rochelle, an idyllic city on France’s Atlantic coast. That experience was so amazing he felt that he had to write a book about it. Hence A Fortuitous Foray into France was born, taking the reader on a wonderful journey with Gerry as he battles the challenges of being an exchange student in a foreign country, speaking and writing in a foreign language and enjoying a student social life.
