Monthly Archives: August 2007

Enjoying TV in France can be a difficult task, particularly if your understanding of French is anything less than native, and your TV is too old to display subtitles. Subtitles are the key to unlocking your French vocabulary via the wonders of terrestrial television. Without subtitles – all you’ll hear are the occassional word or [...]

Like the migrating wildibeast of Africa, the Strasbourgeois instinctively take to their vehicles every Saturday for their weekly excursion into Germany. The Pont de l’Europe, which bridges the Rhine between France and Germany at Strasbourg’s eastern limit, is thus guaranteed to host a permanent traffic jam throughout the day, due to it’s frankly laughable capacity. [...]