On Tuesday last week Hiroko and I threw our stuff in the car and hit the road in the early afternoon. Our destination for the next couple of days was Cooktown, a small town 320km north of Cairns. It can be reached either via an inland road or via the coastal road. Unfortunately the latter […]
In French
At a sandwich store yesterday, I order in English. The guy behind the counter is big, with a coarse face. Somebody you’d see as a bad guy in a James Bond movie. While we wait for my order, he asks if I speak any French. “Only a little bit”, I reply in French. A smile […]