Recent content by Hulot

I rarely look at this thread so apologies for not responding sooner. Like French, Spanish has two words for 'you', one for formal and one for informal use. The closest I can think of in English would be the excessively formal 'Would Sir like to see the wine list?' 'May I take Madam's coat?' I...

I thought I read that he is Serbian but I am happy to be corrected.

As a Croatian, perhaps he would prefer not to play under a Serbian manager. I merely speculate.

'Next month' limits your choices but there are last minute cruise sites out there. My wife and I did a one-way cruise from Vancouver to Seward in Alaska. A once in a lifetime trip and there is no other realistic way to see Alaska but you may not be able to organise the cruise, visas and flights...

In Spanish, Christopher Columbus is Cristobal Colón. A major road in Granada is Calle Gran Via de Colón where there is Restaurante Via Colón.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2021/oct/12/the-hull-fair-returns-in-pictures?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Philip Noel-Baker was a Derby MP from 1936 to 1970. He remains the only person ever to be awarded both an Olympic medal (silver, 1500 metres, 1920) and a Nobel Prize (Peace, 1959). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for a lifetime's peace work: in the 1930s he argued against aerial bombing of...

On 31st January 1936 the Eton-educated, southern journalist Eric Blair travelled from London to Wigan to research poverty among the northern coal-mining towns. He spent the next two months in Wigan, Barnsley and Sheffield. In Wigan he lived above a tripe shop. His book, 'The Road To Wigan Pier'...

Do your contacts know if he has investments/business interests outside Turkey (apart from Fortuna Sittard)? Given that the Turkish lira has virtually halved in value in the past couple of years, his Turkish businesses must be running to stand still when measured in sterling.

It sounds like there is malice in Sunderland.

I understand the difference between a subscription and a paywall. My credit card doesn't as both cost money. I don't see either as a 'begging bowl'.

I assume you don't expect journalists to work for free. So how should online publications be financed? Paywall? Subscription? Advertising? Some other way? The Guardian website offers you a choice: if you want it free, you get ads; if you don't want ads, you subscribe. Last time I looked, it was...

And Wigan Athletic have won the FA Cup more times than Hull City and Norwich City combined :).

Two serious questions: 1. As far as I know, St. George was Turkish, not English. (But Andrew was not Scottish and Patrick was not Irish. I believe David was Welsh.) I doubt that George ever killed a dragon. Otherwise, there is much to celebrate in the story. If, in these secular times, we are...

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