Blanche Neige

Glad you are back to "normal" now! I quite like my new name so I think I will keep it at least for the festive season!!!!!!!!!!!!!![:)] Gill

[quote user="Fumanzoku"]Thanks all for the help, I got someone without advertising ! -  Evianers - did you leave your house with just Gite-like furnishings, I'm not sure how many of my own things to leave around, my books for example, they're important to me but without them the bookcases would look pretty awful. [/quote] Fumanzoko In your position I think I would put my personal books away and just leave a few  less valuable ones on the bare shelves, after all they may have their own books to house.  

[quote user="Tourangelle"]Personally I tip postman, passing pompiers and so on.  I generally tipped in restaurants too, if I thought the service has been ok, but I was recently out with a French friend who has  lived in the UK, who told me she never tips in French restaurants, unless the service has been particularly good, because she knows that here the service is included, whereas in the UK it is not always the case and she would tip.  I must admitt, her comment has made me think twice, and now I don't always feel I should leave a tip here in France if the service has only been ok, rather than good.  [8-)] [/quote]     Re. Tipping in restaurants in France: This has been discussed before on this forum, some will agree and some will disagree! Tourangelle, we have been given the same information by a French friend who dines out a lot as part of his job, so we would rarely leave a tip after a meal in a restaurant in France. When we have been out with French friends they do not tip but British ones often do and maybe they just don't realise that things are different in France.

Val You have my sympathies. Maybe you could tell the teacher about our great English tradition of "Fish and Chips"  now whoever heard of Fish and French fries.[:^)] Has this teacher never been to England and seen a Fish and Chip shop? (edit) Perhaps you could give the teacher a French / English dictionary for Christmas! I have just looked in my  (Collins Robert)  dictionary and the example given is "Frite -s  = chips (Brit),  French fries (surtout US)" I suppose a 19 year old would probably take delight in pointing out that the teacher was misinformed and perhaps that didn't help matters. Gill      

I got locked out and had to sign on again with a name change Gill p.s. how do I get a PM sign on my messages?