Holiday time is upon us

Hi Ian,
Yes, my daughter did enjoy Monaco very much thanks. I think she's also going to have a look at Antibes. I did have a look on the interent to see if she could get to St Tropez from Nice, but it looked awfully complicated and a very long way, because there isn't a direct train.

Tomorrow is Bastille day, so she hasn't got any French lessons, and there should be plenty of street parties and fireworks.

I knew petrol was essence, but not that diesel was gazola. I know gaz is the bubbly stuff in my mineral water.

Are you swatting up on your French, or you might end up with bubbles in your petrol tank?

And Hi to everyone else, and I hope you all have a marvellous summer holiday, wherever you're going.

Ally

I'm pretty much bilingual at ordering a beer 8)

Hmmm....Diesel in French = gazole not gazola :?:

Bandit,
You're quite right (as usual!). I've checked in my French dictionary and diesel is 'gazole' not gazola.

I also discovered that 'gaz' is medical for 'wind' :shock: in my dictionary, as well as the gas in my drink. Maybe we should all stay safely this side of the channel, where at least we all speak our own variety of English? :lol:

Ally

bandit wrote:Hmmm....Diesel in French = gazole not gazola :?:

Ladies, ladies, ladies have we nothing better to do !!!!

I may have typed a letter wrong, but I might have prevented some poor soul put incorrect fuel into his vehicle saving him hundreds of pounds, maybe you should look upon me as a good samaritan :wink:

How many sleeps now Wickers?

NellyPS wrote:How many sleeps now Wickers?

Tuesday, Wednesday not gonna get too much sleep Thursday as we depart early hours of Friday Morning, so not long now...you will be able this year to follow our adventure on the website
just click on the button below weather today 84F and its sun through so far till Saturday.
Livigno slightly cooler at 67F and rain for the next three day, still it's warm rain :D

Ian,
I have never recovered from the embarassment of ordering pepper on my chips instead of peas (poivre and pois) when we were having a day in Paris many years ago. My nearly grown up children always remind me of this whenever they think I'm getting too big for my boots. And the worst of it was that I'm really stubborn and I used to get embarassed easily, so I ate all my chips and pretended that I wanted pepper sauce on them all the time!

And while I'm thinking about it, I believe that the French meaning of 'propre' depends on whether it's before or after the noun (as in clean, or belonging to me). And according to my dictionary it can also mean toilet trained! Speaking another language is awfully difficult.

My own local garage once put petrol in my car instead of diesel, when I wasn't looking, and they had to tow me back after I'd gone about 1/4 of a mile, and clean out my fuel tank. Luckily my car was O.K. because I stopped as soon as it did the first 'hop'. I think it does less damage if you put diesel in a petrol car.

Ally