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| Gattamalata | 24 Aug 2009 8:38 a.m. PST |
UK tourist trapped in French hall: link
A British tourist has spent a night trapped in a French town hall after mistakenly thinking she could book a room at the "hotel de ville".  |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 24 Aug 2009 9:08 a.m. PST |
Hôtel de Ville (French for "City Hall") |
| Dremel Man | 24 Aug 2009 9:18 a.m. PST |
Can't decide which is funnier, her complete idiocy on getting locked in, or her rotten first-year attempt at French… |
| Patrick R | 24 Aug 2009 9:38 a.m. PST |
It was bad French, but probably better than most people could manage. |
| Whatisitgood4atwork | 24 Aug 2009 9:22 p.m. PST |
It turns out the de Ville is in the details. |
| Cerdic | 25 Aug 2009 7:21 a.m. PST |
She did get a free roof over her head for the night though. Result! |
| Connard Sage | 25 Aug 2009 7:48 a.m. PST |
It was bad French, but probably better than most people could manage. If she was that good, she'd have known what 'hotel de ville' meant in the first place. I much prefer the German 'rathaus'. It's so aptly descriptive :) |
| Last Hussar | 25 Aug 2009 10:50 a.m. PST |
Remember the policeman in "Allo, 'allo"? My mum thinks she must sound like that- she can get what she wants in France, but gets funny looks when she speaks. |
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