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vootie · Senior Site Admin Joined: Nov 12, 2001 Posts: 2253

Apparently the little guy was producing Beaujolais Nouveau yesterday, to coincide with the annual launch -- which may or may not have made the wine producers happy.
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MadMutant · Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:46 am Post subject:

I rather like the history on the Mannekin Pis, if any of them are based on fact it's not difficult to imagine some well to do attitudinal lord of the time commissioning the piece.

And, in order to make Belgians feel more at home in London they're running this advert.
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DavidMac · Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 9:09 am Post subject:

lucdesaulniers · Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 9:39 am Post subject:

Siggi · Moderator Joined: Apr 08, 2003 Posts: 3018 Location: spain

so while we took our girls on a bus around our beach, port and old town here, you have all been sitting here giving the high and low on your own towns.......david nice little ditty and great comments from one and all!!!

myself, i am a scottish speaking germand begat from dutch german parentage!!

the german label is from my dad who was born and brought up in holland with german dad and dutch mother (same as myself) but my dad was asked to leave holland in 1939 and the whole family settled just over the border.

at home we spoke dutch and german and as david rightly said, we could leave the house in the morning by car and had breakfast in holland lunch in belgium, dinner in france and home in time for supper.
and at every stop you had you had different money, different attitudes, different languages and totally different food and a passport!! WONDERFUL!!!!

i married a scotsman, moved around germany, holland, england, scotland and finished off here in spain and our girls speak english, spanish, valenciano with a dash of dutch and a sputtering of german......
on the coastline here it feels like you are one minute in a dutch village, then french, english, norwegen, whatever, they all seem to have their own areas and watering holes but the spanish have asked the germans to give them the islands back!!!

isn't the WORLD supposed to be one great big melting pot anyway???
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thebags · Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 12:31 pm Post subject:

Wow Siggi ... you had us all moving around so fast that I got dizzy and fell off my chair ...

... kidding aside that was quite an adventure and I am in envy of your cultural variety and experiences.
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DavidMac · Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 4:10 pm Post subject:

Siggi · Moderator Joined: Apr 08, 2003 Posts: 3018 Location: spain

don't really want to put a dampner on this string, but if anyone is meaning to do the european work experience express, make sure you find out about how it affects your tax/health/pension entitelement as that does not seem to have been worked out properly yet........after never having been unemployed, we finished off with less than the minimum british pension!!!
btw. it is the spanish that welched on the deal!!!

BUT we would not like to go back to UK and look forward to the non-white christmas coming up!!
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lucdesaulniers · Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 5:53 pm Post subject:

DavidMac · Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:03 am Post subject:

"The Well Dressed Cowboys" ..... hmmm ......

...... something seems to have got lost in the translation .....

Boleyn · Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:18 am Post subject:

Swiss girl - since at least the 18th century.

Add an accidental drop of Italian blood - my grandfather - which I never learned to know of course...

Quite boring it seems, but don't forget, in our tiny little country we speak 4 different languages not counted the about 289 languages spoken by our permanent "guests". That "multiculti" enough?

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DavidMac · Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:25 am Post subject:

DavidMac · Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:40 am Post subject:

Boleyn · Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 1:33 am Post subject:

Not a real contender, David, you see this absolutely right, but very officially protected all the same.
e.g. our money is marked in all 4 languages although only a mere 50'000 still speak Rumantsch -
which is yet subdivided in three quite different dialects. Most of the Rumatsch people speak German
as their second language a few speak Italian depending on their origin.

It's a cultural thing and somehow we Swiss seem to be quite proud of it but don't ask me why

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