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Thanks for that. I hadn't realised that Eupen was German speaking.
When we did the Salzburg trip we stopped in the Saarland on the way back. (Zweibruecken I think but it was a while ago). A bit of Googling afterwards was interesting - the French didn't fully let go of the Saarland until the 1980s - presumably when all the coal was gone.
In Our Time today did the Siege of Paris. I've always had a view that WW2 was the 3rd Franco-Prussian war.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000d8rv
Thu Jan 16, 2020 12:49 pm
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Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:45 am
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Many thanks to OP for reminder 
When we were visiting Brugge I usually tried initiating conversations in my (then poor, now poorer
) Dutch. This puzzled my Flemish collocutors: I was clearly not a native speaker, I did not sound like one of the few (I gather) Walloons who try to learn Flemish or volunteer it, and obviously the Brits don't learn other languages 
.. so they often assumed I was from the Belgian German-speaking minority, and switched to German.
When we were visiting Brugge I usually tried initiating conversations in my (then poor, now poorer
) Dutch. This puzzled my Flemish collocutors: I was clearly not a native speaker, I did not sound like one of the few (I gather) Walloons who try to learn Flemish or volunteer it, and obviously the Brits don't learn other languages .. so they often assumed I was from the Belgian German-speaking minority, and switched to German.OCB liked this
(mere guide at) Jet Age Museum, Gloucestershire Airport
http://www.jetagemuseum.org/
TripAdvisor Excellence Award 2015
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction ... gland.html
http://www.jetagemuseum.org/
TripAdvisor Excellence Award 2015
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction ... gland.html