It is far too easy, George Pyle writes, to travel in Europe coasting on only English
Our ability to do everything we need to do without speaking more than a few words of French, one in Portuguese and basically none in Hungarian, Slovak, German or Czech, has been amazingly simple.
(Petr David Josek | The Associated Press) A woman skis across the medieval Charles Bridge after a heavy snowfall in Prague, Czech Republic, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021.
George has been an editorial writer, columnist and blogger for The Tribune's Opinion Section since 2002 (with a four-year diversion to do the same things for The Buffalo News in Buffalo, N.Y.).