Traveling tips for Britain and France.

Arrive by ship from Westminster Pier or by train from the Waterloo station in London. The George and Vulture in London is the oldest boozer in the world. The Pickwick Club meets at the George and Vulture quarterly and members quote from the various Dickens passages about the place. The fictional Mr Pickwick, when asked where he spent his free time, answered that he was at present postponed at the George and Vulture. Penzance, a colourful old South Cornish city of pirates and smugglers, is almost three hundred miles from London.

Britains silliest, cheesiest sport, part sport, part rite of midsummer ritual, cheese rolling is still practiced in two regions of Gloucestershire.

On the first Sun. in May, 3 cheeses are brought to the town church in Randwick for a short ceremony--bear with me, I know this sounds weird--after which they're rolled round the aisles a couple of times. If you are making plans to travel to a French talking country, there are a number of things you can do in order to make your learning experience far easier. Try and purchase a multifaceted learn French programme 2 weeks prior to going. Do not waste your time just getting a book or an audio CD. Keep in your consciousness that your goal is to be well placed to talk with the neighbors, not to become a French teacher. What you want is to learn and commit to memory all of the basic French phrases. Im sure you already noticed that there are plenty of different methods to practice French. Just select a couple of these and make sure you selecting a good French-English dictionary too. Whenever I learn a new language, the first thing I do is purchasing a compendium. An ordinary compendium ( that stay in the home ) Remember it's necessary that you practice a lot if you would like to become smooth. The more that you talk, read and listen, the better you may become. Pastries in France are too pretty ( and too fattening ) to eat but too delightful not to. The king of pastry is Gaston Lenotre, who runs Lenotre shops all though Paris. His shops are at 44 rue du Bac and 3 other locations. The list of rich, home made tastes is long, so are the lines.

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