Je parlez francais comme un sandwhich au jambon.

I believe the phrase originated several years ago when Max Bilbow walked into a sandwich shop in the French alps and declared...
'Je parlez francais comme un sandwhich au jambon'
'I speak french like a ham sandwhich' instead of the intended ' I would like a ham sandwich'.

Since then, it has been somewhat of a running joke, and over the last week it has got me out of many a difficult social situation!

I am currently in Paris, living with Leo Carpene in his house boat.



We are waiting (thus far in vain) for the mighty waves of France to work... La Scie, La Malatte and Hawai Sur Rhone. In the meantime, we have been passing the time with work, paddling and I have made a concerted effort to learn some French...

Working nine to five...

The Niossel wave has been working for the first time in five years (only a few hundred metres from Leo's house boat!). It's doing its best to keep us sane while we wait for the monsters to work.

Leo doing his thing on his home wave.

Jules Gallais.

J'ai appri un peu de francais. Je suis terrible, mais je suis trop meilleur que la semaine dernier. J'ai voulu habiter en france pour encore de temps... J'ai retarde mon vol a angleterre!

Is this complete nonsense? Quite possibly... For a translation of sorts copy the text and click here.