Friday, October 13, 2023

French Landmarks, French fun learning the language, false friends and braving bed bugs

Wine Museum, France.

Paris

Often voted the world most romantic city and one of the most visited.

Well known landmarks include the Eiffel Tower, Montmartre. 

Places to visit, Disneyland for families. Pere Lachaise cemetery one of the world's most visited cemeteries and the one most visited in Paris. Thousands of graves and famous people have graves, such as French singer Edith Piaf and others who died in France such as composer Chopin and English writer and wit, Oscar Wilde.

Wine

If you are after French wine, Paris has a wine museum. 

The other big and recent wine museum is down south. 

Lost I Translation

If you want the recipe, the word is recette. However, that is not the word for receipt.

recipe is recette

receipt is recu (with a cedilla)

Bed Bug Cautions and Precautions

Any Precautions? check beds for bedbugs and put suitcases on metal leg stands, not on beds.

If you are unlucky, suggested remedies include wash clothes on highest heat, or put in freezer.

To brush up  your French online or in person, visit a French speaking Toastmasters club in Singapore, France, Belgium, Switzerland or Canada. In Singapore the new language learners club is meeting online on Sundays at 9 pm Singapore time. The club meets every Sunday and two Thursdays a month, one Thursday devoted to English language, grammar, spelling and all things educational and entertaining. Each meeting has a language theme with one or two speeches lasting 5 to 7 minutes on the language allocated. However, you can do a speech in any language, providing you provide an English translation. It is always entertaining.

Useful Websites

https://paris-tourism.com/en/museums/wine-museum/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_du_Vin


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12619161/Travel-avoid-bedbug-infestation-luggage-Paris.html 

PS if you are visiting Singapore or holding an event,

https://allevents.in/singapore/exhibitions

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