Last weekend I was party to a expedition to the incredible Alpamare acquatic complex a few miles south of Zurich.
Billed as the biggest covered waterpark in Europe – this has to be the most incredible ’swimming baths’ I have been to in my life, and if I were less than …
When Russian Vladimir Nabakov released his first English novel, Lolita, he was heavily criticised for choosing such a shocking subject matter, no-one really bothered to congratulate him on writing flawlessly in a foreign language. But that’s the Anglophone world for you – few of us really appreciate the difficulty of …
Do one of the following in the hours approaching midnight:
do one final ammunition check, dash out to buy up any last stocks of contraband ‘petards’ from the nearest corner-shop, double check you have a cigarette lighter or ‘briquette’ to see you through til morning
attend a ‘reveillion’ (New Year’s Party), eat …
Friends, it humbles me to reveal that my talents with the pen have finally been recognised. Winning is a rare experience and not since the Colgate toothpaste colouring competition in 1978 can I say I have actually won anything on individual merit. (Those rowing trophies usually required at least …
When we made the move to France, way back in 2005/06, the exchange rate, pounds to Euros was such that we could walk the streets of Strasbourg with a smug grin our faces. After all at 1.48 Euro to the pound – who wouldn’t have? Every penny we …
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I discovered this article today – and thought it might interest you …
To read the original go to France Diplomatie.
“The British have been coming to France for a long time now. This transient population from across the Channel is very familiar to the French – with the holidaymakers and …
Last weekend I was party to a expedition to the incredible Alpamare acquatic complex a few miles south of Zurich.
Billed as the biggest covered waterpark in Europe – this has to be the most incredible ’swimming baths’ I have been to in my life, and if I were less than …
Check this out, it’s the local equivalent of ‘journeyplanner’ …. http://www.vialsace.eu/
This post by Aaron Winborn, author of, among other things, a book entitled ‘Drupal Multimedia’ seems to find it’s way to the top of my Google search queries on a regular basis.
The article, written in August 2008, weighs up the pros and cons of the three leading open-source content management …
When a word sounds exactly the same in French as it does in English, yet has an entirely different meaning, it is often referred to as a ‘False Friend’. Indeed some words can have a meaning far removed from what you intend.
For example a ‘chauvinist’ in French …
While historical successes of Racing Strasbourg, or ‘Le Racing’ as they are known hereabouts, have not led to high expectations from their devoted fans, recent developments have made even the most football-phobic residents of France’s ninth largest city groan with embarrassment.
Can it really be the same team that lifted the …