L’après-midi

25 March 2009

So eventually we stopped people-watching and got back on our feet to wander the old town and photograph every square inch of it. Well, that’s what I did anyway. Lauren’s been there a lot, what with having once lived in the town and all, so she was focussed (ha, focussed!) more on just the details.

Careering around town, hollering and carrying on was a big group of youths. We don’t know what they were doing, but we last saw them sat in front of the cathedral, while one of them set up a few glass bottles on the pavement in front of them. They appeared to be unlit molotov cocktails, but what do I know? We moved on before my hypothesis could be put to the test.

Walking along the French streets of France that afternoon I was also able to be a good citizen. A young child dropped their hat on the path and I picked it up, handing it to the mother when she turned round. “Merci, merci,” she said. But all I could think was “gern geschehen” and so had to resort to Grinning Inanely And Silently At The Nice French Lady. Until, that is, a few steps later when my only audience was Lauren once more and it came to me: “DE RIEN, DE RIEN!”

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annie
26th March 2009 @ 1:15 am

OhMyGosh! your post made me choke with laughter. That is EXACTLY what happened to me! Twice!

I have learned German, all.of.my.life. Its been YEARS since my last German class, yet when I was trying to teach English to Spanish-speaking people, all my German sentences were formulating in my head. I remembered vocabulary I had long-ago forgotten. . .

But get this! When I went to Taiwan. . .I began formulating SPANISH sentences. I can barely say “hello” in Spanish! What’s the deal?

I *Loved* reading about your adventures.

I guess somebody’s got to go there, or all the tourist places would go out of business. . . good thing you are so supportive.
~a
Thursday
26th March 2009 @ 10:39 am

When last in Germany, I thanked someone who held a lift door open for me in Italian. I don’t speak Italian.
Thursday
26th March 2009 @ 10:40 am

BTW, that is such a beautiful shop front.
2009 : dreamdust
31st December 2009 @ 9:12 pm

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