When I first started Breton Diary (way back in 2006), I also started a website dedicate to some of my thoughts about IT.
Unfortunately, I didn't do much with that other site but am now bringing it back online and up to date.
The site www.kmeckstein.com details my ideas about keeping IT simple.
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Bumping About Brittany is a guidebook with a difference, a series of excursions into the cultural, physical and emotional heartland of Brittany that can be followed up on the ground or simply consumed in the comfort of your own home as a good read.
Travelers to France will find help in this book to get past the slang barrier. Approximately 4500 common French slang words and colloquial expressions are given with grammatical information, the definition in English and a sentence to illustrate the use.
Lovely views of France and French markets. The food, as always, looks mouth-watering, and the emphasis on simple dishes is first rate.
Explains the meaning of French slang expressions, idioms, epithets, and colloquialisms.
'So good...the book describes the French real French people speak, as opposed to the French you're taught in school. It also, delicately and amusingly, looks at the pscychology of the French. Some French words are just false friends. A 'gateaux' is a rather dull biscuit, not an elaborate cake. 'Creme anglaise' is not cream, but custard. If you photograph a French person, you don't ask them to say 'cheese' and certainly not 'fromage'; instead they sy 'ouistiti', which, weirdly, means a marmoset. The word 'verge' is French for the male organ, which delights the few French travellers here when they see a road sign: 'soft verges'.'
Even as Eurostar relocates to a gloriously refurbished St Pancras station and the journey time between London and Paris is shaved even closer, more and more people on both sides of the Channel are taking advantage of the extra opportunities this highly cherishable link offers us.
Occupying the north-west corner of France, the region of Brittany covers a land area similar to that of Wales. It has a beautiful coastline over 1000 miles long, home to spectacular wildlife. This is a guide to the region's history, its wild and beautiful environment, and the superb local cuisine.
