Hot, hot, hot in the UK. Should we travel or cancel? What should we pack?

This week in London a Toastmasters club cancelled their in person meeting and made a Zoom meeting instead. 

The temperature in London was 30 Celcius, which is 86 Fahrenheit.

The temperatures predicted in London on the next two days were 30 OC which is in the high eighties.

Schools are sending home the children.

Other countries scoff at the UK. People commenting on forums, writing from countries outside the UK say that they have higher temperatures, and for weeks longer. They can cope.  They have air con systems. Just look at the buildings. New York buildings and Singapore buildings are festooned with air con appliances. 

Inside you see free standing fans, fans attached to lights. Companies give away paper fans. Shops sell gadgets to carry such as battery operated fans. 

What about the schools? The schools have glass windows. They are often more than two storeys high and the windows won't open for health and safety reasons. You would think they would have blinds and air cooling grilles for hot weather.

On the other hand, they have different holiday dates.

Poeple are also asking: How come  people can go to the beach at the weekend, but not to work on Monday? 

On the beach you can buy ice creams, shut your eyes and do nothing. You can snooze in the heat. 

You can take time off to apply sunblock, take a long lunch, go off early to do shopping. 

You are outdoors in the fresh air. You are cooling in the sea breeze. You are not breathing in other people's germs, from air con maybe circulating Covid.  

You can take a shower. You can cool off in the sea water.  

Why was the London in person meeting cancelled?

They said because of the Met office warning.

What are the implications and risks?

Somebody might faint at the meeting. You will be busy opening windows for one person who is too hot, closing them for somebody else in a draughts, calling the caretaker for the key. 

If anybody faints during the meeting, it will disrupt the meeting. The organizer could be blamed for the hot room.

The caretaker of the building might be staying at home so you cannot get in.

People will be hot and tired and lethargic and staying home, disinclined to travel.

Your insurance might refuse to cover you if you ignore official warnings.

What Are The Warnings?

I looked at the Met office warning page. It is red, which means that not just the elderly and young and pregnant are vulnerable but everybody.

They asked how to improve their website.

I said - add

Symptoms of being in danger from heat. Why children are better off at home than at school. Advisory on which groups of people should stay home. Does it affect public transport and why? How can I tell if somebody has heatstroke? What are the death figures due to the heat? 

Where can I get sun protection clothing online and what qualities should I look for? 

Which sunscreen should I wear? What is the cheapest place to get it? 

How will the health services be impacted. If other countries have these temperatures, how do they cope?

 Why can't we? Will it be just as hot in the middle of August? When should an organizer of a meeting or conference send people home? How do you cool a conference room? 

I have been reading the comments on the internet. 

How Do Other Countries Cope? 

Regarding the idea that others cope, many countries have cars with built in air conditioning.

I had air conditioning in my UK car, but I did not know. I had never previously had occasion to use it.

Can I drink from any tap?

Water in the UK from a drinking water tap is safe to drink. Not from the hot tap in bathrooms. Why not?

Beware Hot water kitchen taps and all household bathroom taps

1 The water stored for heating might be sitting on the roof or in the attic in a storage tank. All sorts of dead animals and insects and birds could crawl into the hot water tank and die there. Our plumber fished out of our tank some rusting metal

2 If the building has a water softener, this is directed through the hot water pipe, whilst it bypasses the cold water tap to the kitchen which is drinking water.

Where Can I find Water On Holiday?

On holiday, when looking for drinking water, you might find it here

In coffee bars - you might have to ask for it.

Gyms.

Hotels.

Stations.

Shopping malls.

Public toilets.

If in doubt, ask. If you ask do they have drinking water, they might simply reply no. So then you can ask them to tell you the nearest place where you can get some, or refill your bottle.

What About Insects?

In hot weather you are also exposed to insect bites. I looked up insects. I thought I was bitten by fleas. After I heard a buzzing sound, again, I saw the buzzer and it was not a fly nor a mosquito, which is higher pitched, but a bee or wasp.

Hot Weather Travel Checklist

1 Drinking water

2 Plan for a refill (eg location of Tesco Express), or free water fountain.

3 Sunhat with wide brim

4 Sunglasses

5 Sun cream. Calamine lotion. (Failing all else, Sudocream healing for nappy rash or heat rash.)

6 Insect repellent

7 Insect spray (working at home, you might prefer a vaccum cleaner, or open windows, and a bowl with a flat piece of card covering the opening to slide underneath.

Windows

8 Open window so insects can fly out. Keep window keys on a hook near the window but not visible from outside.

Window covering, net curtains, hanging bead curtains on doors, or fixed insect wire net.

9 If renting or buying to work overseas, check for outdoor access to keep the room cool and sit outside because of Covid because you or your visitors want protection from sitting at a distance.

10 Overseas, windows often have shutters to let in air but keep out intruders including intruding insects. Check how windows open and shut and any half way position.

Cars

Do not leave babies, children, adults, pets, food, chocolate, in a hot car.

Take a cool box for anything you want to eat or drink during the day or anything you buy. Put a cooling device in your fridge the day before travel and leave a note on the fridge door to remind yourself to put it in the cool box. Or set a timer to remind yourself to put the water and ice in the cool box before driving off for the day.

Make sure your backpack has a separate compartment for a water bottle to keep it away from precious papers and to allow easy access to the bottle. 

Pack a separate plastic glass, or two, in case you need to share the water bottle with somebody else, so you are not sharing germs from the bottle. Better safe than sorry.

Be a cool person. Have a cool day. 

Staying Cool At Home

11 Sliding glass patio doors might also have an air inlet at the top. Look for a little sliding section over a grille. (We had one for years and did not realise it was there.) If somebody closed this in winter, you might want to open it again in summer.

Travelling To A Conference

12 Pack a hand held fan, a battery operated fan, or make a paper fan.

What Is The Temperature

13 Write conversions of temperatures from C to Fahrenheit in your dairy, or find an old diary with such a page and add it to your current diary with sticky tape.

Celsius °C	Fahrenheit °F
-30 °C	-22 °F
-20 °C	-4.0 °F
-10 °C	14.0 °F
0 °C	32.0 °F
1 °C	33.8 °F
2 °C	35.6 °F
3 °C	37.4 °F
4 °C	39.2 °F
5 °C	41.0 °F
6 °C	42.8 °F
7 °C	44.6 °F
8 °C	46.4 °F
9 °C	48.2 °F
10 °C	50.0 °F
11 °C	51.8 °F
12 °C	53.6 °F
13 °C	55.4 °F
14 °C	57.2 °F
15 °C	59.0 °F
16 °C	60.8 °F
17 °C	62.6 °F
18 °C	64.4 °F
19 °C	66.2 °F
20 °C	68.0 °F
21 °C	69.8 °F
22 °C	71.6 °F
23 °C	73.4 °F
24 °C	75.2 °F
25 °C	77.0 °F
26 °C	78.8 °F
27 °C	80.6 °F
28 °C	82.4 °F
29 °C	84.2 °F
30 °C	86.0 °F
40 °C	104 °F
50 °C	122 °F
60 °C	140 °F

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Misunderstandings - Lost in Translation in New Zealand

New Zealand

My husband and I asked directions to our hotel in rural New Zealand. A passerby told us, 'It's just beyond the station, you can't miss it.' 

We missed it. 

We drove back, found the same man, and asked him to mark it on the map.

'You can't miss it,' he said again.

'But we did. We saw a lot of sheep, but no railway station.'

'There's no railway station. It's just beyond the sheep station.'

'Oh. You call it a sheep station!'

'Yes - what do you call it?'

'In England, trains are in stations, and sheep are on farms. Come on, we have to go, we\re now late for checking into our guesthouse.'

Have you had any misundertandings?

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USA  see previous post.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and English teacher, tutor and trainer worldwide and online. Active English Language Evaluator at Toastmasters International Zoom meetings. Blog posts on the American continent, Europe, Asia, Australasia, and occasionally South Africa and Africa, Russia and surrounding countries, Cyrillic, and the Middle East including Hebrew, Israel, Arabic and Arabic speaking countries and cultures and restaurants, museums and homes of famous writers and linguists. With a touch of humour. And an eye for the amusing, entertaining and absurd and unusual. Pick up a few foreign words as you read about Angela's travels, and shopping successes and disasters.

Where next? If you are not travelling today, travel around my blog posts.

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My Bilingual Dream - Franglais - English words in France, and French words in English - and bilingual Canada

 Can you find the mot juste? (The right word.) A propos of what? (Regarding what?) Franglais is my bete noir (my nightmare, or at very least my sore point).

At school in England I learned French as a second language and wanted to learn Spanish and German (and the Greek, Russian and Hebrew alphabets, as well as shorthand) but the curriculum didn't allow it. 

At university, I was afraid of wasting and losing my French, so in my long summer holiday (which I learned the Americans called vacation, like the French vacances) I was keen to visit Montreal on a trip to the USA and Canada to keep up my French. (Also to find out if I would fall in love with Montreal and one day want to move to Canada to live and work there or marry there or retire there.) 

On the plus side, I kept up my French, and discovered that in the Canadian capital, Ottawa, government employees had to be able to converse and write in French and English to deal with their citizens.

Where can you go nowadays on business or holiday to learn or keep up with a second language? On continental America, you still have bilingual Canada, at least in the capital. We went to the Caribbean and stayed on St Martin/Sint Maarten where one half is french and the other half is Dutch. Dutch resembles German.

In Singapore, which has four official languages, I read the signs in English, Chinese and Malay. It is very slow going, and makes me realise how much easier it is for me to learn Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and German, which I have started on Duolingo.

Here are the countries where you can see, hear, learn or practise two (or more) languages.

BILINGUAL/MULTILINGUAL COUNTRIES (alphabetically)

Canada - French and English

Singapore

On the MRT (train system, mostly underground) you can read and hear announcements in the four recognized languages, English, Chinese (Mandarin), Malay, and Tamil.

UK

England

Government documents on health are often issued in several languages. To recognize words, use a learners dictionary, or for advanced speakers an etymological dictionary. 

For understanding and remembering surnames use use the Dictionary of Surnames (Penguin). For first names, I suggest a baby names book. The best for a desk is the huge thick reference work, 50,000 baby names from around the world. 

For a little lightweight book to dip into and out of on long train journeys, read, What's In A Name - the origin of station names.

Wales

Road signs and tourist boards information are written in Welsh and English. Railway stations have signs in Welsh and English, sometimes only in Welsh. Trains have information panels in both languages. Bookshops and supermarkets often sell books on Welsh and English, phrasebooks and dictionaries.

Scotland

We had a wee problem. Not a pee problem, a wee problem, a small problem.

Au revoir - goodbye, (to) see (you) again.

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All you can eat at Brazilian style El Vaquero in London, grilled meat, delivered constantly, a perfect evening out

El Vaquero restaurant, Mill Hill, London, England. Photo by Angela Lansbury

 El Vaquero means the cowboy. The origin of the word is the Portuguese vaca meaning cow. (Portuguese being the language spoken in Brazil in South America.) The restauran'ts two selling points are all you can eat, and meat carved off the skewer onto your plate by perambulating serving staff.

El Vaquero restaurant in Mill Hill in North West London is very popular for birthday parties. We heard Happy Birthday being sung four times when we were there on a midweek evening, Thursday. For birthdays, the restaurant will give one piece of cake free to the birthday person. If you want a big birthday cake for everybody, such as a Caterpillar cake, Marks And Spencers is just around the corner, under the railway bridge. 

Drinks

You order your drinks - I had Prosecco. 

Drinks. Angela enjoying Prosecco. And boiled eggs from the vegetable counter. 

 Photo by Sharot family.

Decide whether to have the set meal or the completely vegetarian. If you go for the third option, fish, they need 48 hours notice, because otherwise it is first come, first served and they might run out of the sea bass or whatever is available.

Vegetables, Garlic bread.  Hard boiled eggs, halved Photo by Angela Lansbury.

The vegetable choice is attractive to the eye and tasty. I had cauliflower, corn (Americans say maize), cooked fresh, tasty. Boiled eggs, cut in half, were on teeny trays with mayonnaise. My favourite vegetables were the orange sweet potato and the parsnips. 

Meat

Waiters scurry around from table to table with long vertical skewers offering to cut you a slice or two of chicken, lamb, beef, sausages. Mustard is available on request. 

Chips

You get one free bowl of chips shared between a couple. You have to pay if you order a second helping of chips (known as French Fries to your American friends.).

We were lucky to get a table for two, giving them half an hour's notice. At weekends you must book.

Any Improvements?

Drinks

The driver cautiously ordered a Sprite. 

I was so intent on eating my food whilst it was still fresh, that I didn't start on my Prosecco, nor finish it, until towards the end of my meal. By then it was tepid.

Maybe in this heatwave, we should have been offered ice in the drink, or an ice bottle for any of the bottles.

El Vaquero had three branches, one  in Mill Hill, where we saw the jolly owner, racing from table to table. Occasionally he or another member of staff asked to ask is whether everything was all right. Another branch is owned by another member of his family, in Whetstone? A third more expensive version is run by another relative. The third one charges more so can afford to buy even better cuts of meat. 

I was very happy with what I had.

Desserts

Dessert marshmallow included, with grilled pineapple strips. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

You can have sorbets or ice creams, according to the menu. But included in the price are slices, strips, of grilled pineapple - which to my mind had lost its freshness, and a marshmallow, with a dry outside and inside a stretchy sugary concoction which wrapped around the cutlery challengingly like chewing gum or the tasteless dead cheese on pizza. Hm. I was so one hundred per cent sure every single dish was perfect until I reached dessert. What was wrong? Too dry. Too sugary. My son declined the dessert. Next time I shall, too. 

Without the dessert, the meal was perfect. Fast service. Tasty meat. Vegetables cooked just right.

Price? We paid for the set meal, a couple of drinks, mine being alcoholic, and the service charge.

The restaurant is very jolly, very noisy. For a birthday. For children and families. For men who are hearty meat eaters. For everybody.

Toilets are conveniently on the ground floor. We parked around the corner in the station car park which was free after 7 pm.

Useful Websites

elvaquero.co.uk

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American English and British English Translated - with our problems at Disney World and a hotel

American Flag

 When travelling, pack a list of Americanisms and British English. I was distressed in Disney, Florida, on hearing that our monorail would be stopping momentarily. I thought they meant briefly, and rushed my family with, our suitcases, to the door. Later I tried to check out of a hotel on the other side of the USA, the west coast, and asked for a porter. I was anxious to check out before the deadline so as not to risk being charged for another half day or day. The porter never arrived. The reciptionist told me to ring housekeeping. They thought I wanted some kind of drink and were in no hurry. Eventually, after ringing recption frantically for the missing porter, I discovered that my hotel receptionist understood only the word bellhop. The word porter is used in the USA, but only at railway stations.

USA - UK

automobile - car

autoroute - motorway

backpack - rucksack

baggage - luggage 

bellhop - porter (in a hotel) 

crib - cot

diaper - nappy

dummy - (depending on context) dimwit/pacifier/mannekin or clothes model

Fall - autumn 

faucet - tap

gas station - garage/petrol station

hood (automobile) - bonnet (car) 

make a right - turn right

Main street - high street

momentarily - in a moment, shortly, soon

pants - trousers 

pharmacy - chemist

truck - lorry trunk (of a car) - boot (of a car

underpants - pants

Take out - take away (food)

windshield  - windscreen

UK - USA

autumn - Fall

bonnet (car) - hood (automobile)

boot - trunk

car - automobile

chemist - pharmacy

cot - crib

garage - gas station

high street - main street

lorry - truck

luggage - baggage

momentarily - briefly

motorway - autoroute

nappy - diaper

pants - underpants

porter (in a hotel) - bellhop

rucksack - backpack

Take away - take out (food)

tap - faucet

trousers - pants

turn right - make a right

windscreen - windshield

Useful Websites

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

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How To Pack A Suitcase or Rucksack Efficiently - by Angela Lansbury and Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin monument, USA.

Emergency Exit Suitcase

In earthquake-prone Japan, the Japanese, with experience and foresight, keep an emergency bag by the front door to grab in the event of a quick evacuation. 

If the taxi to the airport arrives early (which it should, in case you have a last minute hunt for your passport and tickets) you are ready to go. (The Americans like to say, alliteratively, good to go.)

'A place for everything and everything in its place,' said a well organized and much travelled American, Benjamin Franklin. Another daying I like is: Don't put it down. Put it away.

Smaller seal-tight boxes can be used in suitcases or backpacks when packing for trips. On the outward journey to keep all your underwear or your swimsuit and swimming hat and goggles in one place. Or your night clothes quick to find when you land in the middle of the night. To protect clothes from rain when your suitcase is sitting in a pile on the runway waiting to be loaded.

For bringing home dirty laundry. Wet swimsuits. Washed items not quite dry. And things you need in a hurry which would be hard to locate in a suitcase, such as a sewing kit or toothbrush, face flannel, or small towel. Ideally packed in the inside pocket of the suitcase, far right. If there's no inner pocket in the suitcase, 

When I was a busy traveller and travel writer, before Covid-19, I often kept one small suitcase ready packed with a swimsuit and night dress and spare underwear and shoes and a reversible dress, ready to go in a hurry. Or ready to tell an impatient panicky spouse, "I have already packed!"

The secret to quick packing is to know where everything is. Your packing list can be pasted inside your door to the wardrobe or clothes closet. A second copy to pack so you pack quickly for the return journey and don't leave behind the slippers under the bed, the bathrobe behind the door, the hat in the top of the hotel bedroom wardrobe, the contraceptives under the pillow, the child's toy in the cot or in the empty drawer, your jewellery on the bedroom basin when you washed your hands, your jacket on the chair of the breakfast room in the hotel, your umbrella in the boot (Americans say trunk) of the taxi (whose lost and found number is on your packing list). Your valuables in the hotel bedroom safe, or at reception. Photos of all your suitcases to show the hotel porter (bellhop in the USA) or airport staff when you are hunting for the missing item, looking around the carousel for the fourth suitcase, or making an insurance claim, or showing that the item was not damaged before check-in.

The passport and tickets should be in a set place, always.

Your night dress and slippers, maybe a short light robe. Swimsuit and swimming hat (plus goggles and a tiny towel). Spare shoes or evening shoes or walking shoes or beach shoes. cosmetic kit. Medicine or prescription. Spare reading glasses.   

  Today I sorted a drawer. Underwear. First thing in the morning, when I have energy. And need to select underwear. 

If I sort one drawer a day, by the end of the week I shall have done 7. By the end of the month, one room will be completely sorted.

 If I did one drawer in each room each day, the whole house would be done by the end of the month. Make that, the end of three months or a year. 

Since I need to stand up from the computer, it's a welcome break. Instead of eating, I shall do sorting.

Sorting Underwear

I used to lay everything flat. I thought that saved space. When packing a suitcase. So the same applies to drawers.

But each time I pulled out an item, the whole lot got jumbled and would not fit back in the drawer. Urgh!

Then I saw Marie Kondo, folding things into a drawer on video, on Youtube. She rolls everything or folds it, folds it again, and again, and stands it vertically. Then you can see the colours. Her method looks neat.

Bought dividers - advantages and disadvantages

Dividers are the best thing. Many of them come flat packed and slot together. In theory, after buying a set, if it fits, or doesn't, you can copy the design on card. 

Where do you find card? Inside and behind a new shirt packaging. The reinforcement at the base of a paper tote bag which is falling apart and will be thrown away or used as a carrier for recycling.

But sometimes bought dividers are too small. Not everything fits into a tiny space. Oblongs or honeycomb, all the same size. 

Any divider is better than none. You can start with an empty Kleenex tissue box. Cut diagonally with scissors towards the four top corners. Fold down the four flaps. They reinforce the edge of the box. You now have easy access. You can see the contents better.

How To Cut Down A Box

If necessary, if your drawer is shallow, you can cut down the vertical seems an inch or two, and fold the flaps lower. You might want to measure the height of the drawer, mark the height, less a centimeter, on the box. Use a metal ruler to score a line with the tip of the scissors and make a neat horizontal crease in the cardboard, holding the metal ruler to keep your edge straight and prevent jagged tearing.

Advantages of dividers are that you see each item. You do not move anything else when you empty an item. 

You can sort by colours. Your favourite on the right. Unless you are left handed. 

So either black goes on the right, or red, or white. If black is on the far right, white is on the far left. Or vice versa. Intermediate colours go in the middle. If bright red is your favourite, and dull brown your least favourite, put the red on the right, the brown on the left. On the other hand, if you favour earth colours, put brown on the right, with orange and green for autumn, the luminous yellow and turquoise and summer colours on the left.

You can also sort from front to back by size. Thin and small thongs at the front, thicker and bigger granny knickers, corsets or pantaloons at the back, or vice versa.  

Seasonally - winter stuff goes at the back in summer. It moves to the front in winter. Or maybe an opportunity to put items into storage, on the top shelf, labelled in a suitcase, with an email to yourself in a folder labelled storage, or in the attic. 

Moths and Mould

You also want to add moth balls, and/or take things out and shake them out regularly.

Don't put clothes in the garage. They are likely to get dirty or mouldy. 

See-through Dividers

You might have see-through dividers or boxes sitting taking up space in your kitchen drawers. They can be moved to divide drawers.

Whilst travelling, you might like to see the memorials to Benjamin Franklin in Washington DC, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; and Craven Street, London WC2, England, UK.

Finally, pack a list of Americanisms and British English.

UK - USA

autumn - Fall

bonnet (car) - hood (automobile)

boot - trunk

car - automobile

chemist - pharmacy

garage - gas station

high street - main street

lorry - truck

luggage - baggage

momentarily - briefly

motorway - autoroute

pants - underpants

porter (in a hotel) - bellhop

tap - faucet

trousers - pants

turn right - make a right

windscreen - windshield

Useful Websites (more will be added shortly)

www.fi.edu/exhibit/benjamin-franklin-memorial

Philadelphia

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

Washington DC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Benjamin_Franklin_(Washington,_D.C.)

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Rhyme day - write a rhyme today and every day about your travel or travel business

 Today I was sent the rhyme below promoting a map business. A reminder that today is rhyme day. You could write a rhyme about a destination you are in. I have also heard a prize winning poem about every country the author had visited, and the mini-dramas in each place. 

It's quite easy to to do, because lots of countries end in a. Australia, Austria, America, Malaysia, Canada. Then there's passport, thought, waterfall, baseball. Map and mishap. River and shiver. Fountain and mountain. Sea and Be and Free, degree, see, dee, fee, glee, he, she, Lee, me, pea, pee, tea, tee, wee (small), zee.

Many poets' lines are used to promote destinations and to encourage travellers on their journeys. One of the best lines is from Robert Frost's poem, The Road Not Taken.

It ends

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I

I took the one less travelled by

And that has made all the difference. 

For more pictures and quotations see wikipedia, wiki commons wikisource and wikiquote.

I have written a poem about travelling

 The Happy Traveller

A comic poem by Angela Lansbury

I'm the world's most happy traveller

I've travelled far and near

To the kitchen and the bathroom

Around the world with you, my dear

I've travelled to Australia

Austria, America, Malaysia

To places grander, and seedier

All through Wikipedia

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The rest of the poem is on my blog on comic poetry.

Useful Websites

https://awesome-maps.com/

rhyming dictionary

https://www.rhymer.com/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.myarx.placesbeen&hl=en_GB&gl=US

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to me

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Today we celebrate buying things
When nobody knows what the future even brings

Three years ago, the world was great and
yet we complained and quite a bit
Then by sh*t, the fan was hit

But that brings us to today - a special day
A day for you to make some serious hay

We’re giving you 30% off
But only for the next two days

But wait - for a map, is this the right time and place? 

Well, I say yes and yes, I’m biased,
But soon again you'll be the flyest,

But until then just grab your pen
30% off but just for two days

To get inspired and bring someone joy, our maps are one of the best ways

So stop what you're doing and just go to our page
and enter the code that makes you sage

the code is “SHARE” and this is a dare
to get a map for you and someone that you really care – about

this is your German map maker and I am out

Happy Rhyme Day!

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