Hi Steve congratulations on 17 days
I live on my own in London which can be quite isolating even though there may crowds of people about and I didn't use AA because I was concerned about work finding out (wish I had used them now)
I guess the best thing for you would be to try and learn French as quickly as possible which would mean you could use local AA meetings and would lessen the general isolation so that you can be occupied in your down time which for me are the danger times