Woodman, spare that tree!

A true story.

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New years come, old years go

Who doesn’t know the following lines?

Old-fashioned Christmas cards

Nostalgia is a way of capturing time past.

Away with the tyrannical General Franco!

Some 350,000 Spanish citizens died during Spain’s calamitous civil war (1936-39) and a further 200,000 afterwards – of hunger.

The Pied Piper of Hamelin (I)

The town of Hameln is known in Germany and England for a dubious character who once spirited away its rats and its children.

City of Lights: Père Lachaise

Le passé est un pays étranger : on y fait les choses autrement qu’ici.

City of Lights: Montmartre

Le passé est un pays étranger : on y fait les choses autrement qu’ici.