Keep well away from District 11.

We don't want home county bell-ends like you pervading our vicinity.

Went earlier this year mate.
Bit of culture for me this weekend.
I'll be mingling with the French travelling masses at the KC.

'Get stripped, you're picked'.

"déshabille-toi, je te veut"

pronounced 'dezzabee twa, jerteveur'

good luck

"Un jambon est un biere s'il vous plait"

Twenty years ago next year me and my brother did our own Tour de Bretagne on bicycles with a tent and the above was the full extent of our French, we didn't even take a phrase book, in fact our kid didn't even take his passport

We survived, but the diet was a bit boring, apart from the beer bit.

Is it?

not quite, but who cares ?

The French, one assumes.

My brother was a world traveller when we cycled Brittany in '93, he'd literally only just returned from hiking all the way around the world for 18 months, you could say that the air turned blue when we got to the ferry terminal and he realised that he didn't have his passport with him.

Luckily it was 1993, the world wasn't as paranoid as it is now, we were on bikes at the ferry terminal and they let all the cyclists board first so he just got himself into the middle of a group of bikes and rode straight through the passport check at Portsmouth, when we got to St Malo the next morning there wasn't a soul to be seen on the dockside to check documents Are you mad?! I hope you'll be scuba diving or visiting sites most days because it'll be way too hot for a sunbathing holiday. Egypt and Turkey (and Arizona) are the hottest places I've been and even the locals tell you not to go in August!

Loved Egypt for the diving and the cheap beer. Hated Egypt for the Egyptians, won't be going back for that reason. You've not been hassled until you've done Egypt.

You get out of a taxi at your hotel and taxis nearby zoom up and start beeping and shouting at you, even when they've seen you just arrive. Go into some of the shops and they lock the door behind you. We walked past one shop in Sharm and the owner started following us down the street "why you no buy my things" - he got pretty abusive "you f*cking English", etc until we got stern and told him to fook off back to his shop. The females in the group were pretty scared and none of us did any more shopping after that.

I realise they are a culture of traders but the sooner someone educates them that if they backed off,Western Europeans would be MORE likely to shop.