She Goes – Travel for adventurous people

Dance floors can be dirty, dangerous places, as illustrated by this tongue-twisting phrase: Dutch: Uw ongecoordineerde dansbeweging doodde bijna die persoon achter u. English translation: Your uncoordinated dance move almost killed that person behind you.

‘In bocca al lupo’ means ‘Good luck’ in Italian. The literal meaning is ‘In the wolf’s mouth’. The appropriate response if someone wishes you luck is ‘Crepi il lupo’, meaning something along the lines of ‘The wolf will cark it.’ Dead wolf = suc...

Esurient \ih-SUR-ee-uhnt; -ZUR-\, adjective: Hungry; greedy. I don’t know about you guys but I have been starving all week. This word seems very appropriate!

Fetor \FEE-tuhr; FEE-tor\, noun:  A strong, offensive smell; stench. Laura, who just returned from Mumbai last Monday, says, “Perfect word to describe Lokhandwala – a suburb in North Mumbai … a fish paste crossed with poo smell – mmm, yum!”

This is Laura’s favourite quote, translated into French: ‘Si vous faites toujours ce qui vous intéresse, une personne au moins est satisfaite’ – Katherine Hepburn (‘If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased’) Words to live – and travel ̵...

Triskaidekaphobia \tris-ky-dek-uh-FOH-bee-uh\, noun: Fear or a phobia concerning the number 13. Incidentally, Laura was born on Friday the 13th.

Esurient  Hungry; greedy. Esurient comes from the present participle of Latin esurire, ‘to be hungry, to desire eagerly,’ from edere, ‘to eat.’  

Crapulous means sick from, or marked by, excessive drinking.

Precipitevolissimevolmente is the longest word in the Italian language.  It comes from the adjective precipitevole, and precipitevolissimevolmente is the adverb. Ironically, it means ‘as fast as you can’.