So, we have a year before we actually depart on our journey so I thought to myself, should I continue in my way of being a lazy typical Brit who learns none of the local language and gets by with lots of pointing and grunting, or should I make the effort to at least speak some basic level French in restaurants and patisseries (look, that’s French already!)? Well, I’m taking the plunge. I just know that the ‘C’ I achieved all those years ago in GCSE French will come back to me