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  roger
  you are spot on with your views on some of our local traders.
  
  a free course in basic french refused!!!!!
  
  just the willingness to take euros, a welcoming sign with all the wilkommen, bienvenue stuff will make tourists
  feel like going into an establishment.
  
  i note john's comments about the station starting to take foreign money then stopping.
  
  the worst culprits, unbelievably, are the people that run the bus service between the station and the docks.
  people arrive, having just changed their euros into sterling, are full of £20 notes and the bus does not have change.
  
  just as an extra thought, so many businesses in the town centre employ polish staff, that all speak perfect english.
  if they arrive here that well educated the odds are that they will speak another language.
  we also have polish run business where the same applies.
  why do they not put a sign in the window stating which languages are spoken.
  
  i know that when i am abroad, with just a smattering of german, i look for signs that say "english spoken here".
  
  it saves me the embarrassment of going into a shop/bar/restaurant and looking a total idiot when no-one understands me.
  
  i will await comments on that last sentence.

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