I really must try to learn to speak French. I can read it vaguely, but it just one of those languages that I can never quite grasp. How strange, there are only 23 miles of water between our two countries, I can be in Paris in 3 hours by train, but our schools in my day taught Spanish and German, with the option of Russian or Latin in later years! So, when I have to communicate with anyone in France, I just have to pray that they speak and understand English. Fortunately so far, I've not met with any problems.