please empty your brain below
I come to think the Wirral Line in Liverpool is simulating a wildly swimming sperm... and the Mersey is the egg's protective shell / cell membrane.

Patrickov | 15.04.19 - 6:40 a.m. | #

Is that the only wall in Paris without graffiti?

dg writes: No.

Chris | 15.04.19 - 8:42 a.m. | #

I did this same journey last week, the contortions the trains make through the tunnels are quite something.

Great series on Paris by the way, thank you.

Adam | 15.04.19 - 9:40 a.m. | #

i had to google what 7 "bis" means ...

it's like calling it line 7A

the french also use it in addresses in a similar way

ADS | Homepage | 15.04.19 - 10:48 a.m. | #

And this is what happens when a train takes the bend too fast!: Notre Dame de Lorette
[link 1] [link 2]

A later report confirmed that the train was speeding

Rogmi | 15.04.19 - 11:28 a.m. | #

Back in the 80s Fiat launched an updated version of their "iconic" 126, the 126 Bis, I'd wondered myself what the "Bis" meant

Mikey C | 15.04.19 - 11:32 a.m. | #

The second adverbe multiplicatif "bis" (twice) is fairly common in France. The same word is used for the encore at a concert.

Less common are the next two, "ter" (thrice) and "quater" (four times). Rarely seen in my experience are "quinquies", "sexies", "septies", "octies", "nonies" and "decies". There is also "semel" (once).

Top marks if that brings back Latin lessons.

Andrew | 15.04.19 - 11:46 a.m. | #

Do you get bombarded with 'le voir, le dire, trié' or alternatively 'voir, dire, triée' (according to Google translate) on the Metro - or are you left in peace.

Still Anon | 15.04.19 - 11:52 a.m. | #

Strange they have to use a Latin word. Perhaps the French language doesn't have a word for "encore"...

Timbo | 15.04.19 - 3:17 p.m. | #

And biscuit. Cooked another time to dry out for storing on long voyages.

Veejay Em | 15.04.19 - 4:46 p.m. | #

EU law has got at least as far as counting from bis (= 2 = “a”) up to 29: Articolo 118 novovicies (Italian) = Artikel 118 novovicies (Dutch) = Article 118 septvicies ter (French, which seems to stack up after the equivalent of “z”) = Άρθρο 118κθβ (Greek) = Artikel 118zb (German) = Article 118zb (English).

Rich G | Homepage | 16.04.19 - 12:55 a.m. | #

Thanks, Rich G. That is extraordinary.

Inserted UK legislation tends to stick on As and Zs - and sometimes other letters - with abandon, usually at the end but sometimes at the beginning - Schedules A1, 1, ... 4, 4ZZA, ... 5, 5A, 5AZA, 5AA, 5B, 5BB, 5BA, 5C, 6 ... And there is a section 357GCZF.

Andrew | 16.04.19 - 2:28 p.m. | #

I shall always have a soft spot for EEA Agreement Annex II Chapter XV point 13zzzzzzzzn.

Rich G | Homepage | 16.04.19 - 4:53 p.m. | #











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