Each afternoon, I spent an hour or two by the beach or by the pool poring over vocabulary Credit: Photo: Alamy Somehow, studying the tangles of French irregular verbs seems far easier when turquoise ...

THE STUDENT PILOT KNEW HE HADN'T PERFORMED WELL, and back on the ground he waited for a chewing out by his flight instructor. Instead, the exasperated instructor marched him over to another officer on ...