A few days ago I visited a world’s oldest art gallery: Cave of Niaux in Ariège (18500-10500 bc). It is a huge place, which has remained almost as in the Magdalenian period. Just some small paths were made for visitors. There are only 20 visitors per tour. We walk with a torch, in darkness, and … Continue Reading
Monthly Archives
May 2017
London: three days, three visits
Two weeks ago, with our daughter, we were in London for three days. Each of us chose a place to visit…
Writing Workshop: Why oh why?
In the Writing Workshop series, we work together to improve our writing skills: to learn how to write better and more correctly in English.
Here we have a poorly written text with quite a few mistakes…
Confusables 10: contractions
What is the difference between these sentences? …
Clothes or souls?
When you photograph people in colour, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls! ― Ted Grant, Canadian photojournalist Do you agree?
The race of hell
In this post, Blandine tells us about how she suddenly decided to take part in the famous Maroilles race, the 20 kilometres of Maroilles. Not an easy race by any means, and to make it worse, she was not all that ready…
“Maybe” versus “may be”
In the Confusables series, we talk about English words and expressions that are easily confused with one another because of similarities in spelling, pronunciation, and/or meaning. This is a source of confusion but it shouldn’t be, because the difference is clear-cut! As usual, I am not going to provide a grammatical analysis. Instead, we’re just … Continue Reading