Archive for November, 2006
Friday, November 17th, 2006
What’s your poison?
It is a little known fact that the world-famous French beer Kronenbourg is brewed in Strasbourg, taking it’s name from the city’s western suburb - Cronenbourg - where the brewery is located. (But it’s only French in name now - as the breweries were bought by Scottish & Newcastle in 2000.)
Strasbourg is in fact the [...]
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
Back to Nature
One of the marvellous things about Strasbourg’s location is it’s proximity to some of the most beautiful countryside in Europe. To the east: the Black Forest, to the north and west: the Vosges mountains - to the south: the Swiss Alps.
The closest real nature comes to the centre of Strasbourg however is the Robertsau [...]
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Sunday, November 12th, 2006
Start your day the French way
When I called the dentists to make an appointment I expected to have to take an hour out of the working day in order to reveal my molars to the man in white. Not so.
Okay so they take two and a half hour lunch-breaks, close at 5.30pm on the nose, and bunk off on [...]
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Monday, November 6th, 2006
Going down…
Today was another low point in my pathetic use of the French language.
So the lift is broken again, and having waited for four days, in the hope that one of our native French speaking neighbours might be bothered to do the obvious, it seems the job of calling in the lift repair man [...]
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Sunday, November 5th, 2006
The Sunday Papers
Today I finally found a newsagents that actually opens on a Sunday. Although the vast majority of other customers seemed more interested in buying scratch-cards, I was able to acquire DNA and Le Monde to entertain me over breakfast.
There isn’t the same sort of newspaper culture here as there is in the UK. [...]
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Saturday, November 4th, 2006
Two esses, no aitch
67000 is the postal code for central Strasbourg. Thankfully everyone who has sent us mail, since we moved here, has correctly put this on the envelope. There has been mixed success with the spelling of the city name however:
Strasborough - near Middlesborough obviously
Strasbourgh - a scottish variant as in Edinb-urgh?
Strassburg - for those [...]
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Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
Out to lunch
I’ve had three letters sitting by the front door for about a week, waiting for me to post them.
But each time I’ve found a convenient time to nip out to the post office, this has always coincided with lunchtime, and La Poste is always closed for lunch.
The UK postal service might not [...]
