Le Couvent, Roujan B&B Bed & Breakfast Pezenas Languedoc France

However now I have my slippery new multifocal contact lenses I'm likely to be blogging more frequently. It's amazing just how tiring not being able to see properly is. But now, thanks to clever Dr Magnier at the optical clinic in Pezenas, I have the joy of no specs at all. Am I the last person on Earth to learn that one pair of contact lenses can replace readers and distance glasses? No more scrabbling around for the right pair. No more
whipping my specs off before kissing (a very frequent occurrence here in France) lest I become ensnared in the kissees own specs. Finally I will be able to see to prune the vines. They'll make better wine and I will have to hone my taste buds to measure up to my fab new eyesight.

I'm thrilled with my lenses which took about 15 minutes to get used to. If you're contemplating the change from specs I would thoroughly recommend it. And yes, the French word for contact lenses is lentilles - the same as lentils. So now I poke lentils into my eyes each morning.

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written by Liz Betts-Gosling, July 14, 2010

Hi Paula - thanks for the comment. Yep, that was me, glasses in every room - readers, sunny readers, distance, sunny distance, transitional distance, transitional readers. I must have spent a fortune. Now it's just lenses, ordinary Ray-bans from eBay and a pair of emergency low grade readers for tiny writing. Today I sat on the Caux stone seat in the vineyard and felt the breeze on my eyelids for the first time in years. Heaven.

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written by Paula, July 14, 2010

I think I might find out about lentils here in the U.K.
I have dozens of specs, in the car, in the kitchen, near the
tele, in the bathroom, in the bedroom. Trouble is I still can`t find
a pair when I want them!!!