Four students of tourism at Périgueux’s IUT meet three anglophone teaching assistants and quiz them on their experience in France.
Lauren Twist from Washington DC (USA), Lucy Falkner and Stephanie Zemlak both from England, Cornwall and Birmingham respectively, came to Périgueux, Dordogne in September 2006 to work as English-language teaching assistants - since when they have […]
Blokes in Périgueux
God bless you, uncle Kurt
We called him ‘Uncle Kurt’. The lost generation called Ernest Hemingway ‘Papa’ and we - whoever we are - called Kurt Vonnegut ‘Uncle Kurt’. We grew up in the USA amid the seethe and howl of the Vietnam war and we mostly had a paperback of ‘Cat’s Cradle’ or ‘Slaughterhouse 5′ or even ‘Player Piano’ […]
An honest girl
This appeared on Craig’s List:
What am I doing wrong?
Okay, I’m tired of beating around the bush. I’m a beautiful (spectacularly beautiful) 25 year old girl. I’m articulate and classy. I’m not from New York . I’m looking to get married to a guy who makes at least half a million a year. I know how […]
Not a good week for the French!?
Our love-hate relationship with France often ensures that we Brits enjoy the distress of the French when things do not go well. Admit it - a significant element of the national elation at winning the Olympics for 2012 was that we beat Paris to it!! Our trouble is that in many ways we are so […]
