I like travelling very much. It's a great opportunity to know new places and to get new experience. Here is one of my favourites.
I was in Switzerland with my friends last summer, one day we decided to go to a place called Schwarzsee. When we got there we took a lift up to the mountain Kaiseregg which was upon the lake. We spent several hours on the edge enjoying the scenery around us. When we were about to go downhill from this nearly 2.200 m high mountain, we saw a rental with (foot)scooters there but these scooters weren't like the common ones. They had about 20 cm thick tyres, disk brakes and fine springs. We rented them and they also rented us helmets and the protectors for our knees and elbows. The winding gravel trail downhill was about more than one hour long (but it didn't matter with those springs), among the lying or grazing cattle on the both sides. It was really amusing.
Do you like travelling?
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mashimaro87
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I like travelling too and I spent one of my finest holidays last summer at the isle de Ré in France.
We crossed France from South to West on the highway to reach seaport La Rochelle where a wonderful 3 km long bridge connects continent and island.
I liked the most that all the isle is completely free from big hotels and mass tourism. It's a perfect place for recreation with its wide sands and salt lakes where sea salt is won and a lot of migratory birds are living during the wintertime. Because of the near gulf stream it's a mild climate allover the year. When we arrived end of August we still had two weeks of summer with blue sky and temperatures ar. 25 - 30°!
Not at least the isle de Ré is a true paradise for biking and watersports. Hundreds of kilometres of bike paths allover the island and a lot of catamaran and surf board rentals as well as surf schools.
You see, I'm still enthusiastic and I surely won't be there for the last time. A last thing to mention: I highly enjoyed this wonderful cordiality and kindness of the French people. Seems to me an essential part of the French savoir-vivre. (Btw: Nice to see the differences between the driver's manners on the highway between Germany and France ...
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P.S. Hints of the English specialists for improving my English are always welcome ...
We crossed France from South to West on the highway to reach seaport La Rochelle where a wonderful 3 km long bridge connects continent and island.
I liked the most that all the isle is completely free from big hotels and mass tourism. It's a perfect place for recreation with its wide sands and salt lakes where sea salt is won and a lot of migratory birds are living during the wintertime. Because of the near gulf stream it's a mild climate allover the year. When we arrived end of August we still had two weeks of summer with blue sky and temperatures ar. 25 - 30°!
Not at least the isle de Ré is a true paradise for biking and watersports. Hundreds of kilometres of bike paths allover the island and a lot of catamaran and surf board rentals as well as surf schools.
You see, I'm still enthusiastic and I surely won't be there for the last time. A last thing to mention: I highly enjoyed this wonderful cordiality and kindness of the French people. Seems to me an essential part of the French savoir-vivre. (Btw: Nice to see the differences between the driver's manners on the highway between Germany and France ...
)P.S. Hints of the English specialists for improving my English are always welcome ...
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Oh, it was great, CID and I can really recommend it!
I did a French basic level course three years ago and worked hard to refresh my skills before we started to France. So it was no problem to greet or ask for things at the supermarket or for directions and so on. The problem was to understand the answers given ...
However the Frenchs are very patient and they appreciate, if you just try speaking their language as many of the older ones don't speak any foreign language. With the younger people you can often switch over to English when they notice your problems in expressing things.
To Latin just let me say that I always envy people who learned it! It helps a lot to understand all romance languages because it's the mother of them, isn't it? Besides there are sometimes Latin passages or sayings in classical literature I would appreciate to understand w/o asking Google ...
Ok, it's not useful in speaking with foreigners, but I'm sure you could read and understand a lot of French or Spanish or Italian words immediately. And the rest will follow ...
I did a French basic level course three years ago and worked hard to refresh my skills before we started to France. So it was no problem to greet or ask for things at the supermarket or for directions and so on. The problem was to understand the answers given ...
However the Frenchs are very patient and they appreciate, if you just try speaking their language as many of the older ones don't speak any foreign language. With the younger people you can often switch over to English when they notice your problems in expressing things.
To Latin just let me say that I always envy people who learned it! It helps a lot to understand all romance languages because it's the mother of them, isn't it? Besides there are sometimes Latin passages or sayings in classical literature I would appreciate to understand w/o asking Google ...
Ok, it's not useful in speaking with foreigners, but I'm sure you could read and understand a lot of French or Spanish or Italian words immediately. And the rest will follow ...
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