07 June 2011

The Old Well


This lovely old well stands in the gardens of Monaco's new National Museum, Villa Paloma.

4 comments:

Dave-CostaRicaDailyPhoto.com said...

This well seems to have a concrete cap, which I guess is a safe way to leave a well.

Anonymous said...

I looked up the word "well" in the online dictionnary.. 19 meanings for it! Is this one for taking out water??
Barbara from Germany

Jilly said...

Barbara, yes. The word is 'puit' in French.

Anonymous said...

Thanks Jilly! But "leo" (online dict.) doesn't find puit either...
So now I looked into my paper dictionaries AND: English: well = Brunnen in German, French: puits = Brunnen.
Life can be so easy...
And further I found out that a well is a fountain without a "fountain" and that French for "fountain" is not "fontaine" but "jet d'eau"!!
So these were my today's English + French lessons! ;-))
Barbara

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