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S’il vous plaît… dessine-moi un mouton…
Et peut-etre un serpent boa qui digérait un éléphant.
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Will this be the year?
Prepping for the move
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A journal of our move from Vancouver to France
Welcome to Échapper de North Vancouver, a journal of our adventure in moving from British Columbia to France. Sign up now so you don’t miss future issues. Subscribe now In the meantime, tell your friends!
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Rapport d’étape #2
2020 has been a year unlike any in memory. Across the globe people's best laid plans have run headlong into the walls of COVID-19, or in Europe, Brexit. Our move to Normandy (or another département) has been delayed as well. To some degree we have also been asking
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Rapport d'étape
It is now the end of February and Britain is diving headlong into Brexit. It's still anyone's guess just what that will mean, but at a minimum we're assuming that the transition period will end on December 31st. The question becomes whether we should
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We have a deadline
Thanks Boris, and thanks to the 13,966,565 Britons who voted to make him Prime Minister. Up til now our plan to escape to France has been somewhat open ended, predicated as it was on my wife being a UK citizen who could move freely within the European Union.
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Le Mot du Jour
J’aime la langue française.
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Ce Blog est en Français partir d'aujourd'hui
Hier soir notre professeur de Français dit, "Le Français est un langue écrite. Si ne pouvez pas l'écrire, vous ne pourrez pas le parler." Le même soir, j'ai fait ma première présentation orale. J'étais vraiment très fier! Quand j’avais seize ans
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Français vs 官话
Just a quick update. To some degree our planning for the move to France has been derailed by an invitation to travel to China this summer. Specifically we'll be staying in Chengdu, with a side trip to Beijing. All of which explains why I am simultaneously talking classes
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France vs Fake News
We all know that all politicians are terribly concerned about Fake News® and interference with elections. Really, they tell us all of the time. If you're interested the Poynter Institute is now monitoring what various countries are doing to deal with the problem. In Canada that means : ... a
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2019. We're still planning the move
I see now that it's been a number of months since this blog was updated - August in fact. That's not because we've stopped looking at France, but because life has suddenly become a little bit crazy. In the course of a few months
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A Canadian to head Air France? Mais non!
Word is in that a former head of Air Canada has been hired to run Air France, whose previous CEO resigned after the airline's unionized workers rejected an offer of a 1% pay rise after having compensation frozen for seven years. Air France-KLM has been locked in a