My old colleague Patrick will probably be laughing now. He used to visit France quite often, while we never went there. Chris and I were mostly away to Great-Britain. But as GB made it more difficult to enter, we haven't been there since March 2020.
Recently, we've been discovering more of France. Before corona, we had already visited Paris (day trip with the village priest), La Rochelle, Marseille and the Côte d'Azur. This year in summer, we made a trip to Bordeaux and shortly we head to Strasbourg. This destination was also intented for last summer, but due to the problem with the electricity, we moved this trip to the coming autumn break.
And because we cancelled our rail passes (see earlier blog) we picked for the new destination - France once more! We'll make a train trip to various places there. First to Lyon, then from Lyon to Tours (Loire valley) and finally to Paris. Found a cute hotel there.
So by the end of this year, we'll have seen a good deal of France already. Our French is improving accordingly. We both know and understand French perfectly (our grandfather was French-speaking) but we are not in the habbit of using it. You don't need French in Flanders. But right now we can also speak it more fluently and need not search for words anymore. When we go on in years and we make more visits to France, our French will get just as fluent as our English.
France is also a destination where you know you'll find fine food - not to mention the wine!
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