I wish I was better at languages. Sure, English may be a univrsal second language (and what an awful language to have to learn!), but it's just manners to at least make an attempt when visiting. I could feel my French getting better every time I spoke with a fair dinkum French person. But maybe that was my high school stuff coming back. Certainly my blog entries were becoming more and more Frenchified.

And standing on a strasse corner learning German from a delightful junge fraulein, well, that was a highlight.