Friday, February 29, 2008
Allez France!
You have to laugh, don't you? There's not much to choose between a self-righteous 'idealist' like this guy, and the destructive pleasure-seekers who also treat 'Abroad' as a theme park on which to project their sorry selves, rather than a real world with real people and real cultures - and indeed languages. Excellent work by the French, I'd say.
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
'[P]eople thought he was a freeloader', apparently. Well, score one for the 'people' because that is what he is.
ReplyDeleteOf course, he should have gone through Holland! they understand the lingo better and have a historical affinity for hippies and hippiness.
ReplyDeleteIt's sad really, this is a journey inspired, I'm sure, by Satish Kumar's peace walk from the grave of Gandhi to the grave of JFK, meeting the leaders of the four nuclear powers on the way - the whole time travelling penniless! It is a remarkable achievement because it shouldn't by rights have succeeded. It is very admirable of this young fella to try.
They should have dressed as Vikings and asked for spam.
ReplyDeleteWe're driving to Florida next week and will be begging food and drink along the way as part of our campaign for lower income taxes.
ReplyDeleteI'll be in la belle France in a few weeks and I can't wait. Learning the language when I lived there twenty years ago was both necessary and wonderful. My 14 year old son, already a francophile too, has been mastering French with the help of Rosetta Stone (great language program on CDs; kid got a hot copy for $5 and it's got 200 languages on it!).
ReplyDeleteFrance is the one place I know in Europe where it's still important to speak the language. And, frankly, how is the guy in the article going to learn French walking around the coast of Britain: Was that a misprint for Brittany???
And, frankly, how is the guy in the article going to learn French walking around the coast of Britain:
ReplyDeleteAhh Susan, the same question occurred to me. But then, again, the pursuit of knowledge is the cornerstone of our civilization...
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he wrote: "...not only did no one not speak the language..."
ReplyDeleteApparently, French is not the only language he can't speak.