For some perverse reason I am rather enjoying the horse meat scandal in the UK,…
Bernard O'Shea

Bernard O'Shea
Bernard, sometimes known as Bernardo or Bernardinho to his Romance language friends, or Bernardescu in Romania, is a journalist based in Sydney, where the Aussies tend to call him Bernie. He is the travel editor at www.timetowander.com.au and at The Australian Women's Weekly magazine.
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I received a bizarre email from Booking.com recently. The subject line was “Here’s a surprising…
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Just as singers with African-Francophone backgrounds such as Stromae and Maître Gims are dominating the charts…
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When I first heard that a French documentary film called Être et avoir (To be…
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The purpose of this site is to enable you/me/us to chat up – oops, sorry,…
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When I was a kid in school I had difficulty rolling my Rs to the…
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My Romanian – An Essential Grammar book has this to say somewhere: Un Eminescu nu se…
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Want to hum along to some catchy tunes in Spanish? Here are a couple of…
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Recently Bernardo has highlighted songs in French by men of the moment such as Stromae…
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Being Romanian means you have to look good in tights and enjoy a good knees-up…