Bonjour, merci, jus d'orange (Good day, thankyou, orange juice - these are the only French words I know) from France, where we have had a short side trip from the UK to visit the lovely Susie (Jen's cousin) and her partner Marc, in their hometown of Village Neuf in the region of Alsace. From London we actually flew to Zurich, Switzerland. Here we had our first incident of lost luggage at the airport carousel. We figured this wasn't such a bad thing, with the Swiss renowned for their efficiency and timeliness in addressing such matters. Imagine if this had happened in India, we chuckled to ourselves. And yes, the whole process was typically Swiss - we walked straight to the help desk, where there was no queue, wrote down our address for the night and were
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