la fin = the end

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le poisson = the fish

A story of ‘fish’ (=‘poisson’) and things that go a bit south in Vanity Fair.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/04/iceland200904?currentPage=1

Fishermen turned bankers, who were laid off from trading jobs in October and now might return to fishing.

A tiny fishing nation, population 300,000, that decided, around 2003, to re-invent itself as a global financial powernation

The article follows the peculiarly Icelandic logic behind the meltdown.

A fishy tale.

la fête = the party

Every time I log on to Facebook I feel I’m crossing a vortex and end-up in a parallel world where the same ‘party’ = ‘fête’ has been going-on for months…

Don’t they ever work, sleep or even rest?

un funambule = a ropewalker

The documentary ‘Man on Wire’ chronicles ‘ropewalker’ (=‘funambule’) Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Centre.

In 1973, about a year before the World Trade Centre walk, he performed a similar stunt in Sydney walking across two pillars of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s2372173.htm

Do you ever feel you kind of do it metaphorically? say... at work?

le vol = the flight

A 7am flight for breakfast is one of the perks of working between Sydney and Melbourne.


The guy who invented the web check-in to print the boarding pass the night before deserves a Nobel prize.


‘Flight’ QF411 to Melb for work
and ‘Vol’ AF1407 to Paris for holidays…