Off to Berlin!
It’s Sunday night; we’re in Paris at Mary & Gilles flat, on our way to Berlin tomorrow. We’re looking forward to seeing the “Red Tomato!”
(Full post)Ramble - Troyes
Okay, let’s start with the pronunciation of the city of Troyes. One would, at first glance, think it was pronounced as we pronounce “Troy” in English; I mean, after all, there are only two lousy letters tacked on to the end, and everyone knows that in French, you don’t pronounce the ‘s’ at the end of a word, and the...
(Full post)Ramble - Langres
This is our second visit to Langres - we visited here in 2010. We’ve found that when we told someone here that we were going to Langres, the universal response was “Why?” Langres has nothing of note to draw tourists. But readers of our 2010 blog may remember why.
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