Oo lala, Bonnie! Je suis tres impressioné! Est-tu pres pour voyager en Québec avec ton kayak de mer, bistro à bistro?
Bistro a bistro? Formidable! Allons-y!
(my computer doesn't do accents, sorry!)
Actually I used to be able to muddle along in French fairly well - last night, I was consulting the 101 French Verbs I got as a prize in Le Grand Concours back in Hawaii in 1983. I wasn't using any complicated verbs but I wanted to just double check to make sure I was conjugating them right.
These days...well, I might be able to order a cup of coffee, or ask where the w.c. is, but only if the listener were fairly patient and the answer was spoken "plus, plus lentement, s'il vous plait!"
Je pense que j'ouvrirai un restaurant appelé "Potato" à Paris. Toutes les personnes intéressantes viendront parce que le nom est si chouette.
Ha! I was thinking along those lines myself but had failed to carry them out to the logical conclusion. When I first saw the place I thought "Hm, wouldn't it be funny if they'd just called it 'Potato'?"
But of course, Paris would be the place to open Potato.
ps hey, how's Tillerman doing at the Master's? I was thinking of roaring him because it's partly his fault that I traded in a job on the most kicka$$ schooner in NY Harbor for a dinghy in Canarsie (now that's some powerful writing) - but I'm not going to because I know he'll have loads & loads of stuff that he'll be wanting to share & won't have time for memes.
Heck, I haven't even managed to do my President's Day trip reports & I've been right here all along.
Tillerman is finally back in the northern hemisphere as of yesterday, so I expect he will start blogging about his trip soon.
Thanks! I've been looking forward to that. Although I'm already all itchy for the water to warm up enough to be able for me to get back out in a dinghy myself & a good fired-up Tillerman series is not gonna help that.
And I just noticed something curious.
Isn't it funny how I now have two completely separate standards for water being "too cold"? As an experienced kayaker, "too cold" is basically ice; as a novice dinghy sailer, I'd probably put "too cold" at anything under 50 degrees.
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