... smoke while they enjoy this unexpected change in the village life.
Showing the English book her son used to teach on, an old lady tells Sarah the tragic accident of a car gone crashing off the cliff ...
... odd funny long-haired hippy-looking character – he says he's from Kamaran islands – took us around giving excited explanations with a lot of gestures and some words in English. When he realised I speak ...
... I wouldn't object to answering if only he would answer mine, for instance from what country he is, but he seems to be playing riddles. He speaks English with an Indian accent, but he may be an Arab. A ...
... even if this setting is modest. He emanates the aura of a boss and he sometimes intersperses his Arabic with some English words, not because he wants to show off, but because they're commercial terms of ...
I don’t really see what could possibly make a foreigner, such as that English guy Hugh, decide to settle down in Cambodia. There must certainly be very good reasons, but I can’t find anything really ...
... primary school and considered them trite, but never as now do I understand their real scope. It may be because of my recent reading a book on the character of English people: the writer dealt of Christmas ...
... either side of the brick-red track was the protagonist of the day.I chat away the evening with an nice talkative expatriate Englishman living in Phnom Penh; then with nice landlady Madame Deu’s son. ...
... plunged in an unexpected landscape of thick woods. I take a hotel in central Lattakia. The receptionist entertains me on politics, speaking in English due to the sensitive subject, and showing Sunni victimism ...
... Virgins that ooze mysterious oils. The bridegroom insists on talking to me in broken English that is hardly comprehensible about faith, afterlife, the meaning of life, but I grasp his thoughts in the few ...