How to progress from basic to advanced in German or any language in ten simple steps.

1 Start with some loan words which are the same in both languages.

2 Learn 5 to 10 basic words, hello, goodbye, please, thank you, one, two, three, and, the. 

3 Add one simple sentence, such as my name is or where is the toilet, or  (I want/need) water, a sandwich.

4 Learn I you, he, she, it, we, you plural, they.

5 Learn the sentence structure. Is it subject, verb object, like English, or subject, object verb?

6 Learn plurals. Add s, as in English, x as in French, es, as in Spanish, or double (repeat) the word as in Malay, Indonesian and Chinese.

7 Learn some common first names or surnames.

8 Learn some common place names.

9 2 Take up an online course such as Duolingo. Do one exercise every morning, while waiting for breakfast, or coffee, or waiting for transport. 

10 Start a notebook with target language words and start talking to yourself in the target language and noting words you don't know and need.

  Where can you learn and practise speaking German? 

Flag of Germany

Flag of Austria

Flag of Switzerland

You can use German in Germany, Austria and German-speaking parts of Switzerland.  Also Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, and parts of Belgium and Italy.

Flag of Luxembourg.

Flag of Liechtenstein.

A one week plan - beforehand

Learn ten words a day for 7 days and at the end of the week you have 70 words. 

During a one week holiday note ten words a day. that's another 70 words. 140 total. You will recognize people speaking your target language, and be able to identify magazines, newspapers and street signs in the target language.

On a one week or fortnight's holiday take a language course. Or organize a homestay with a family who speak the other language. A meal, a weekend, a long weekend, or whole week. You can invite them back to your place later the same year or another year. 

Aim to learn 1000 words in a year. If you learn only one word a day, most days, you have 300 or more words in a year. If you learn ten words a day, without breaks, and with revisions, you have 3,650 at the and of a year. 

A the end of five years you will be fluent in one language or get by in five languages.

Some online courses match you up with native speakers. 

Failing all else buddy up with a friend or new friend who wants to try the new language.

Buy or make sets of stickers for around the house in the target language, if you live alone or your family agree. 

Play songs in the target language and learn the words. 

Know clothes sizes, colours, the date, your favourite foods, favourite sports, or business words such as meeting, buy, sale, discount, entrance, exit, open, closed.

Know simple danger warnings such as stop, go, danger, fire, flood, river, airport, no parking, no smoking, no entry.

Advanced Language Learning

Know plurals, past, present and future, a statement and a question, 

1 Read bilingual labels on clothes, addresses on food and drinks and wine bottles.

2 Read a newspaper in the target language.

3 Watch a film with subtitles, twice.

4 Learn English from the target language in Duolingo.

5 Switch your Wikipedia to the target language. Have the other language on your phone or a second phone or another computer screen.

6 Switch your phone to the target language.

7 Switch your satnav to the target language.

8 Join a Toastmasters International or other social or sports group which speaks the target language.

9 Find a friend, marry somebody who speaks the other language, or work for a company which uses the target language.

10 Take holidays in the target language country, and other countries which speak dialects.

Useful Websites and books

duolingo.com

Useful |Books

First thousand words in (Usborne books)

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Olive Oils From The Sunny South Of France - where you can do wine tasting and make your own olive oil

 Estoublon olive oil from the sunny south of France where olive trees grow. The name Estoublon is also a placename in Provence. Estoublon is French for a small stable, and would have been a place where a stagecoach stopped. 

I tried their olive oils at the Goedhuis Waddesdon trade event at the Fishmongers' Hall, London Bridge, in July 2026.

Photo by Angela Lansbury.

The olive oil at the front of my picture is softer and sweeter. Picholine. Extra Virgin Olive Oil.

The one at the back was too spicy and made me choke and cough. Flacon Couture. Extra Virgin Olive Oil.

I had previously tasted three olive oils at a trade fair, and admitted to the seller that the strongest was not my favourite. He told me that most buyers agreed with me. However, my husband, who likes spicy food and strong curried, likes the strongest olive oils. You might try, perhaps buy and try, two olive oils of different types, and get your family to vote. Alternatively, stock one of each to keep all your family happy.

French - English

d' - of ( abbreviated from de before a vowel)

de - of

huile - oil

olive - olive

English - French

of - de /d' (before a vowel)

oil - huile

olive - olive

Learning about Olive Oil and Wine

Olive Oil Experience

You can book a visit to their premises in Fontvieille, Provence, southern France, choosing to create your own olive oil.

They also run a wine course at their premises in France, WSET (Wine and Spirit Education Trust) level one, which I have done in London. Highly recommended for absolute beginners.

(My husband Trevor, who was a lecturer in statistics, started his WSET at level 2, did 3, then finally 4 which is diploma level and he is now a wine educator.)

The Surroundings - Oil and Water

The place Fontvieille is named after the old source of water, vielle meaning old, font, fountain, foundation, source of water. 

You will be surrounded by olive tree fields. 

Windmills

The area is also called the land of windmills, of which there are still several.

The most famous local person was the author, Alphonse Daudet, 1840-1897, who wrote Letters From My Windmill. 

He wrote,

Voyez-vous, mes enfants, quand le blé est mûr, il faut le couper; quand le vin est tiré, il faut le boire.

• You see, my children, when the corn is ripe it must be cut; when the wine is drawn it must be drunk.

Daudet's Windmill in Provence, France. A reproduction of it is in the International Wind and Watermill Museum in Gifhorn, Germany.

A museum about Daudet is in a mansion. 

One of Daudet's stories with a sad start and a happy end was about the windmill owner who pretended the windmill was still working when modern industry ended the business. When the man's secret was discovered, the people took pity on him and brought their grain to be ground, restoring his business and joie de vivre. 

The is also a Roman stone aqueduct which took water to Arles.  

L'Excessive Non-Alcohplic Sparkling

In London at Goedhuis Waddesdon The Collection Tasting 2026, alongside the olive oil I was able to try non alcholic sparkling wines and they were a wonderful surprize. The sparkling rose

Useful Websites

For visits to Estoublon tasting olive oil, or wine, or both

https://www.estoublon.com/en/wine-tourism/

Location of Estoublon in France

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontvieille,_Bouches-du-Rh%c3%b4ne

Explanation of Terms and Quality Listed On Bottles

https://honest-toil.co.uk/blogs/all-about-the-oil/the-honest-guide-to-olive-oil

Tourism

https://thegoodlifefrance.com/what-to-see-in-fontvielle-provence/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Wind-_and_Watermill_Museum

https://www.muehlenmuseum-gifhorn.de/

To Buy the olive oil and sparkling Blanc and Rose

https://www.estoublon.com/en/product/lexcessive-rose-en/

Updated with websites, facts and photos on July 13 2026.

Preview Of A Hiking Holiday In Switzerland

 

My hiking holiday friends are considering a holiday next year to German speaking Switzerland. A German speaking member of the group recommended the region.

One of the main areas to visit will be his favourite, Pontresina, which has cheap or free transport. At least it did last time he was there.

I have had a quick look at it. The area is on the Eastern side of Switzerland, nearer to Germany, hence the language. 

The Countryside in Pontresina, Switzerland

The countryside offers: 

summer hiking, 

winter skiing, 

a cable car. 

If you want to venture further, trips to: 

St Moritz, and 

trips on a red train. 

The Culture in Pontresina, Switzerland

For those interested in food and culture: 

the Museum Alpin, and 

the Alpine Dairy of Morteratsch which makes cheese.  

Useful Websites about Pontresina and Switzerland

Not be confused with the Alpine museum in Bern, Switzerland:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Alpine_Museum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museums_in_Switzerland

https://www.morteratsch.ch/en/activities/summer/alpschaukaeserei/

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Colourful Costumes, Visual Appeal, Music And Dancing Delights & Jewellery At the World Travel Market

 At the World Travel Market, in London November 2025. 

The lanyards are plant based silk.  The personalized card you printed, when WTM emailed approved registration, is framed by a brown card frame without a plastic window.

Europe

Costumes

Spain, featuring wine and Roman Remains

SE Asia 

Indonesia, a lady selling inexpensive ear-rings.

The next big show for the trade is in Berlin, Germany in 17-18 Feb 2026. B2B (Business to Business.)

ITB Asia is in October 21-23 in Singapore.

Useful Websites

itb-asia.com

itb-china.com

itb-india.com

itb-americas.com

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Kefla fancy gift bottles

 Planning for Xmas or a wedding. You can order boxes of fancy bottles to fill with your product or home made wine.

The Xmas tree bottle is available in 40 ml, a miniature. They also do the same design in larger sizes.see their website. 30 in a box . Pay extra for stoppers. 264 euros 60 cents for 100, without stoppers.

Stoppers are 51.44 euros per hundred. 5.1 euros each stopper.

Plus any contests. You could give empty bottles.

For more info www.kefla.de

Type tree in the kefla search box

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Visit One Lake in 3 Countries, Lake Constance, in Switzerland, Germany & Austria

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Meersberg lower town on the side of Lake Constance. Photo from Wikipedia.

The landmark bear fountain on the hilltop upper town of Meersberg in Germany. Photo from Angela Lansbury.

From Meersburg in Germany you can take a ferry to Konstanz which is on the border with Switzerland.

Meersburg, Obersee. Ober as in over or upper. See as in sea or water. 

You will find lots to admire and learn in this area.

Meersburg

The bear is holding the town coat of arms.

Meersburg. 

Meer means lake or pool. Alternatively, castle o the sea. Burg is castle or manor. 

Meersburg is a medieval town attracting many tourists. The statue of the bear holds the town's coat of arms, which appears on stationery and official documents.

Meersburg has an upper and lower town with a steep pedestrian street and two sets of stairs. From the top there is a view from the castle. You must pay to go into the castle, but it's free to go to the cafe and you glimpse a bit of the castle en route.

Actually there are two castles. 

The Old Castle, Meersburg

The old castle reaches to the sky, overlooking the lake. The old castle has a statue outside of Writer Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. She wrote poetry and composed music. She is best known for her novella, The Jew's Beech, based on the true story of how a Jewish man was murdered and years later the murderer returned and hanged himself in the woods. 

Statue of Annette outside the castle.

Annette's book, The Jew's Beech.

The New Castle Meersburg

The second one is a grand pink block, with a wide oblong frontage. New in its day, the 1700s. Contains a hall of mirrors.

Look for the area's multi-site ticket..

Mesmer

A small oddity is the grave of Mesmer, from who we get the verb to mesmerise, meaning to hypnotise, as well as the term animal magnetism. And his experiments and the tests on his veracity, led to the discovery of the placebo effect.

Statues of Mesmer. Photos from Wikipedia.Polkadot tablecloth 

Baden

Baden is bath. Baden-Wuerttemberg. 

The origin of the name Wuerttemberg is possibly a man's hill. 

Lake Constance

Constance is also spelled Konstanz. From the city of Konstanz.

Lake Constance is Europe's third largest lake. Big with borders. One lake divided between three countries. Switzerland (eastern). Germany. Austria. A short drive from France.

The name of the lake comes from the city of Konstanz, named after the meeting which took place here. The city was named after a Roman emperor. We are famiiar with the name Constantine, associated with the first Christian Roman emperor. But his father has a similar name, Constantius.

BODEN SEE

Boden see, lake with a lake bed. 

Bodensee is not a place on Lake Constance, It's the German name for Lake Constance. See, think of sea.  

Also in the region, the grave of Mesmer, who inspired the word to mesmerise.

Where next?

Ferry ride.

Waterside grand building with museum about poet Annette.

Useful Websites

https://www.bodensee.eu/en/where-to-travel/lake-constance-cities/konstanz

https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Meersburg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Constance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantius_Chlorus

https://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/2014/06/poetry-pentecost-by-annette-von-droste.html

Birthplace of Annette with museum about her

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette_von_Droste-H%C3%BClshoff#/media/File:Burg_H%C3%BClshoff.jpg

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How to Identify Places In Old and New Travel Photos

 You may recall the title of the American comedy, If it's Tuesday, this must be Belgium.

Date Photos

That's your first clue to how to date photos. The magic word is date. 

A second important word is diary. You can write the names of places you visited in a small diary. It might be worthwhile to buy the smallest diary you can find just to keep your travel record. Then you don't need to write the date, just the name of the country, city, monument, or people met.

You can stick a Post it note on the page, or a paperclip. Or carry a small roll of sticky tape, and stick down place names cut or torn from brochures. 

Date Maps and Leaflets

Another system is to write the date on the top of brochures and maps you are given. Later you might wish to throw out last year's city map, and keep this year's. 

If you are a librarian or historian, you might file successive years of maps in date order, with the most recent on top in a box file. Then you can find the name of the hotel on the central square of a city you visited ten years ago, which has now changed its name or been replaced or converted.

Family Photos Of Travels

My first thought on trying to clear clutter is that I can throw out old, out of focus pictures. I can also discard pictures of my family silhouetted against windows.

In theory, you can take out of focus physical photos, copy them, bring them into focus, make them lighter, and colour them.

Add Colour To Photos

My husband has used a website, one of several similar sites, to colour old photos of groups of people around railways, stations, trains, for his historical account of wine and railways.

How accurate is the colour? Does this matter? 

The colours of trains and uniforms of soldiers are often known.  In modern times we have numbers specifying exact colours so you can order paint, or print company stationery and signs.  Big companies such as McDonalds specify the exact shade of yellow or red.

Take Self-captioning Photos

I take self-captioning photos deliberately at the start of a trip. Failing that, in the middle. I take photos saying welcome to, signposts, history boards, hotel and museum names over doorways.

Check Old Photos For Name Signs

Sometimes old photos show the placename by chance. The hotel name is on the doorway. The sign post or street name is small in the background.

The Bear Fountain - A Vital Clue

In one of my old family photos, lacking a caption, the photo shows my mother is standing beside a fountain. 

Angela Lansbury's mother on holiday. Where?

On second glance, I notice another vital detail. The fountain has a bear on top of a statue in the middle of the fountain.

Swiss Bear Fountain

I start by searching for statues with bears. I discover a city in Switzerland, Bern, known as the city of bears (and clocks). I find a photo of a bear statue on a fountain. Eureka.

German Fountain

On second thoughts, are we sure? No. The fountain below is a different shape. 

Eventually, after more searching, we find an exact match.  The fountain is on a plinth. The buildings on the other side of the street are timber-framed. The road slopes downwards.

The photo was of Bodensee, Lake Constance, Germany. 

The Psychological Value Of Old Holiday Photos

I now know my mother visited Germany. She had a happy holiday there. So long ago. Is this important? Yes, psychologically. Instead of my most recent memory of my mother being the day she died, or the funeral, I have a more recent memory of her standing happily beside a fountain on a sunny day on holiday.

 I also broadened my general knowledge of places to visit. I know about Switzerland and Germany. I have places to add to my bucket list, must visit places.

I also have a concversation opener for two countries. When I next meet somebody from Switcerland or German, whether they were born there, live there, work there, or are planning a holiday, I can ask, have you been to those places, or were you near them?

Family Photo Detective

You might know that your widowed grandmother always wore black. If you know the date her husband died, you could date a photo of her, at least to after a certain date.

Home Country Photos

I look at my family photos. Some are where we lived in the UK, others in the USA, Spain, and Singapore. 

I have photos of the family in the back garden of our house. I notice the conservatory on the back of the house. If I know the date the conservatory was built, I can date the decade of the photo.

 I can see how tall our son is. If he is taller than his parents or grandparents, he must be at least ten years old. If he was born in one decade, that photo must be from the next decade or later.

If he is wearing a school uniform, he will remember the name of the school. On the wall of his old bedroom or the display shelving in the lounge, I have one or two of his old school photos. They show the school uniforms.

Add Anecdotes

A one line comment brings your story to life. I have a photo of Switzerland. My mother wanted to live there. 

You may have photos showing a package holidays starting in the Sixties. Package holidays were new and popular and cheap. What is obvious to the elderly who lived in that era might not be obvious to the next generations.

Print A Book Of Your Travels

I could now compile a book of my own or my family's travels. 

For an 80th birthday, or wedding anniverary, I could compile a book. Print on demand. 

In addition to museums and libraries, some pubs and restaurants displa hsitoric photos of the area. You might frame your photos for sale, on loan, as a gift. For a centenary celebration, annual fair, new year's eve party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_It%27s_Tuesday,

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Floating Tram in Wuppertal, Germany and Visit Engels House Museum, Communist Manifesto Creation

 The floating tram is in Wuppertal, Germany, on the north coast of the country.

The name Wuppertal comes from the river Wupper. Tal means dale.

Let's start with where is it. North Germany.

The city has steep streets, green parks including a sculpture park, and several architecturally interesting modern buildings.

Steep Streets

Green Parks - Sculpture

A memorable landmark in the colourful figure of eight, flat roof, junior university building. 

The orange tower.

The Lawrence Church

Church, Germany.

The swimming pool

Swimming pool, Germany.

Ilisenturm

Elisenturm, Wuppertal, Germany.

Engel's House

Photo and caption from Manos in Wikipedia.

A museum you can visit. Very opulent, capitalist looking house. 

Family home, of Friedrich Engels, who jointly with Marx wrote the Communist manifesto in the swan restaurant in Brussels, Belgium.

Another modern building, the New Burgische Synagogue.

The city is twinned with the Shonan monoril in Japan.

Shonan monorail, Japan. 

You can find monorails worldwide, in Singapore, and East London in England. But the suspended monorails look more challenging for the builders - and nervous  passengers!

Pina Bauch Dance Theatre

Pina Bausch was famous for her dance groups which improvised and did unusual theatre. One well-known performance had the dancers with blindfolds. Dancers served tea from trays to the front row of the audience. 

Her groups performed worldwide, including ain the cultural Olympics fbefore the Olypic games. Other danced in a forest of leaves falling about them, or on soil underfoot. After she died, the group continued.

More information from

Useful Websties

Suspended railway in Wuppertal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn?

Visit Engels House in Wuppertal, Germany

https://www.mi-wuppertal.de/en/news/guided-tour-engels-garden#:~:text=After%20the%20guided%20tour%2C%20you,is%20included%20in%20the%20price.

Wikipedia Wuppertal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal

Monorail in Japan

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Shonan_Monorail

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Xmas trees and decorations - the countries they came from

 Santa in Thailand, entrance hall at Sunwing Hotel, Kamala beach, December 2023. TUI is the low cost airline. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

It may surprise you to see real or more usually artificial Xmas trees in India, thailand and other parts of the world. Where did this custom start and when?

1 Trees in Germany/Europe in winter with candles supported on branches provided light and warmth.

2 King George's III's wife, Charlotte, brought one to the UK in.

3 An engraving, not a photo, of Queen Victoria and Albert (who was German) with their tree in 1848, makes trees popular in the UK

Later additions were glass baubles. Recent imports from Germany at Xmas time include gingerbread biscuits and stollen cake.

Christmas cards

Christmas crackers

Dickens writes about Scrooge in the Christmas Carol.

Grinch, an anti-Xmas character is created by Dr Seuss. The character is voiced by Danny Kaye and Wlter Matthau and others.

Ladybird Books

I have an ol Ladybird book (for children - but conveniently succinct for adults) which tells the story of the Xmas tree and Xmas customs.

New (to me) in 2023, the book Christmas tree.

If you have only one book, and don't mind folding the pages, you can create a tree decoration for the dining table. This makes a cone shape tree.

Useful Websites

Daily Mail

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12881075/The-secret-history-Christmas-tree-fairy-lights-began-West-End-stage-tinsel-emerged-Germany-17th-century-Queen-Victoria-popularised-baubles.html#reader-comments

Wikipedia

How to make a book Xmas tree

Pages taken from books (or old printed paper from your printer wastebin). Tthis makes the cone shape tree.

https://www.rokolee.com/diy-book-page-paper-trees-xmas#:~:text=Fold%20the%20first%20page%20over,to%20all%20of%20the%20pages.

https://www.instructables.com/Bibliophiles-Christmas-Tree/

https://www.wikihow.com/Make-an-Origami-Christmas-Tree

Your Traveler's Calendar

This travel calendar is useful in several ways. You can plan to hold a holiday to conincide with a festival which offers lights and parades, events, exhibitions and activities and excietment. Or you could seek to avoid the busy times with booked rooms and higher prices.

A Traveller’s Calendar

January

from Wikipedia.

Jan 1 New Year’s Day. Concert, Vienna, Austria.

USA Tournament of the Roses Parade, Pasadena, California

Orthodox Christmas Jan 7

Jan 5 Evening before Epiphany.

Jan 6 Greek & Russian Orthodox (Christian) Epiphany. (Birth of Jesus.) 

Jan 26 Australia Day. 

Burns Supper Night, Scotland. 

Jan 27 Holocaust memorial day (liberation of Auschwitz in Poland)

Chinese New Year (Moving dates.)

February

Feb 6 New Zealand Waitingi Day

Feb 14 Valentine’s Day (Ireland, Italy and worldwide)

March

March 1st St David’s Day, Wales

March 17th Irish St Patrick’s Day

March 20 French Language Day

April

April 20th Chinese Language Day

April 23rd St George’s Day, Shakespeare’s Birthday.UN English Language Day. 

Spanish Language Day.

April 25th Anzac Day (Australia and New Zealand)

May

May 1st Labor Day

May 5th Cinco de Mayo.

Jun

June 2nd Italian Feast of the Republic. Flypast of tricolor arrows, red/white/green flag colors

JUNE 6th UN Russian Language Day

20/21/22 Summer Solstice (Longest day)

July

Jul 4th American Independence

July 14th Bastille Day, France

July 18 Nelson Mandela Day

August

August 1st Swiss National Day

August 9th Singapore National Day

August 15th Indian Independence Day

September

Sept 21 Belize Independence Day Parade and Carnival

October

Canadian Thanksgiving, 2nd Monday in October.

October 3rd German Unity Day

October 31st Halloween

November

November 1st and 2nd Day of the Dead in Mexico

November 11th Remembrance Day (WWI Armistice, WW2 and all wars)

December

December 18th Arabic Language Day

December 24 Christmas Eve

Dec 25th Christmas Day

Dec 26th Boxing Day in the UK, St Stephen’s Day in Germany

Dec 31st New Year’s Eve. Midnight Mass. 

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_multiple_capitals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_whose_capital_is_not_their_largest_city

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Grassy Idyll in the Bavarian Alps, Germany, where an amusing statue of a bull does exercise

  Members of my extended family visited a hotel in the Austrian alps and took this amusing photo.

Statue of bull doing exercise with a rope. Photo credit. Sharot family. Copyright.

Lartor Resort, Bavaria Germany.

You can book through Agoda.

Useful Websites

https://www.agoda.com/en-gb/lartor-resort/hotel/unterammergau-de.html?

Gold from an ATM vending machine - would you buy it?

Would you buy a tiny gold bar from a vending machine? Have you ever lost money in  vending machine/ It's certainly a novelty. You can find them in the USA, in Europe in Germany, and in the Middle East.

Gold to go, dispensing machine in New York, USA.

Photo credit victorgrigas - Own work

Useful Websites

 https://spicytrends.com/trending/dubais-bizarre-wonders-discover-the-uniquely-strange-sights-you-can-only-see-here-zemanta-dubaithing/8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_to_G 

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Food & Drink by country E-K England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, from cheddar and stilton, to kir and sake

 England

Food - savoury

Cheddar cheese, stilton blue cheese 

Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding.

Fish and chips.

Sweet

battenburg cake, Crumpets, Scones

Cadbury's chocolate

Fox's biscuits

UK ice cream brands, tubs, bars and sticks, include Cornetto, Mangum, Ben & Jerry's, Haagen Daz.

Wine

Sparkling white wine from Nyetimber and others.

Cider. Beer.

France

Food - Savoury

baguette, coq au vin, duck a l'orange, French onion soup

Food - Sweet

chocolatines (pain au chocolat), croissant, nougat, macarons

Drinks

Bordeau, Burgundy, Champagne, Kir (aligote grape and cassis which is black currant) 

Dubonnet, a sweet, fortified red wine, drunk as an aperitif.

Germany

Food - Savoury

Wurst (sasages)

Food - sweet

Stollen

Drink

Riesling

Greece

Food savoury

rice in vine leaves, moussaka

Sweet

baklava, kataife, 

Drinks

Ouzo (anise plant which gives us aniseeed)

Greek coffee

Hungary

Food, savoury. 

Hungarian ghoulash is the national dish of Hungary. 

Food - sweet

Hungary has a marzipan museum, in Budapest, the capital city. The museum's name is the Szabo Marcipan Museum.

Wine

Bull's blood wine

India & Pakistan

Food - savoury

Tandoori chicken

Food sweet

Gulub Jamun

Jelabi

Drink

Lassi - sweet, sour, mango

Ireland

Food - Irish stew, sourdough bread, 

Drink

Guinness

whisky (no e, the e is Scottish whiskey)

Israel

Food - savoury

Israeli salad.

Kosher food

Food - sweet

Halva, slabs of wrapped confectionery, based on sesame seeds.

Parve - neutral, not containing milk, nor a meat product or by-product such as gelatine, therefore can be eaten at both meat only or milk only meals and restaurants.

Kosher wine

meshuval - heated to a high temperature or pasteurised, and can then be already purified and safe to be handled by non-observant Jews and non-Jewish catering staff.

Rules vary from country to country, rabbi to rabbi and year to year and product to product. Please consult locally.

Sabra chocolate orange liqueur

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_liqueur

Italy

Savoury

Pasta spaghetti bolognaise, carbonara 

Sweets

Amaretti di Saronno macaroons

Bitter and crunchy little biscuits in half moon shapes.

Ferrero Rocher chocolates

Nutella hazelnut spread

Zabaglione

Cassata Siciliana

biscotti

Drinks

Asti spumante

Prosecco

Illy coffee

Jamaica

Japan

Food

sushi - rice cylinders with topping of  raw fish or egg

Drink

sake - rice wine

Korea

Food - Kimchi (pickles)

Drink - Soju - rice wine

Anne Frank Sites To Visit in Amsterdam and Around the world

Memorial to the Anne Frank tree, Russell Park, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, UK.

Mural showing Anne Frank. Pastorplatz, Aachen, Germany. Achen, Pastorplatz 1. 

Stolperstein (stepping stones) in Aachen for Anne Frank, her sister Margot, and their mother Edith.

Statue of Anne Frank, Westermarkt, near the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Marot Frank and Anne Frank gravestone style memorial with star of David in Bergen Belsen, Germany.

Anne Frank mural, with blues, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Anne Frank statue.

English: Anne Frank lived with her family in a flat at Merwedeplein 37 before they "moved" in their hiding place. This statue of her is standing on the square. The piece of art was created by Jet Schepp. Deutsch: Anne Frank lebte mit ihrer Familie in einer Wohnung am Merwedeplein 37 bevor sie in ihr Versteck im Hinterhaus fliehen mussten. Diese Statue von ihr steht auf dem Platz. Die Statue ist ein Kunstwerk von Jet Schepp.
Date	3 May 2019, 11:32:15
Source	Own work
Author	Citius Altius Fortius

Statue of Anne Frank with suitcase. Photo from author Maula.

Anne Frank, Amsterdam

Boise, Idaho, statue of Anne Frank looking through a curtain.

Memorial stones for Anne Frank, which appear as a star of David when viewed from the air. In Girona, Catalonia, Spain.

Useful Websites

https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/main-characters/otto-frank/ 

https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/secret-annex/

https://www.annefrank.org/en/about-us/support-us/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Monuments_and_memorials_to_Anne_Frank

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Statues_of_Anne_Frank

https://wanderwomenproject.com/places/anne-frank-statue-in-new-orleans/