A tit-for-tat museum tiff with Emmanuel Macron | Brief letters
President Macron is to impose a surcharge on non-EU visitors to the Louvre, among whom are, of course, us (
), when Britain’s national museums offer free access. With government money stretched, has the time come to levy charges on residents of countries that do not reciprocate? With, perhaps, a surcharge for the French?Chris Piggott
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
• Reading your letters about coffee (
) transported me back to my lower-sixth year studying Spanish. As we queued for coffee from a vending machine, our Spanish class assistant approached with a smile and asked us to repeat after him: “Nescafé no es cafe
!” His words enter my head every occasion I am offered instant.Lynn Telford
Newcastle upon Tyne
• Re your letters on German words for weak or ersatz coffee, our family prefers the word
Bodenseekaffee
, which means it is so weak you can see the bottom (Boden
) of the cup.Bodensee is
the German name for Lake Constance, where, ironically, I’ve never had bad coffee.Dr Michael Heinze
Düsseldorf, Germany
• Tim Dowling’s search for the ideal man bag (
) should go straight to the cross-body gas-mask bag. Very rufty-tufty, very retro, less than a tenner from the internet – and perfect for your potatoes.Jonathan Hauxwell
Crosshills, North Yorkshire
• My admiration for the late John Prescott was further increased by his, or his family’s, decision to arrange for two Jaguars at his funeral (
). What a fitting final gesture to the press.John Rushton
Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire
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