The town of Eye in Suffolk is twinned with Pouzauges in France. There is a French milestone from the region of France is in the centre of Eye.

Seeing this reminded me of the three months that I attended the University of Chicago Laboratory School in Chicago in late 1963. Every morning before classes began, we used to play a card game called “Mille Bornes” (i.e., ‘1000 milestones’). The game was vaguely educational in that it taught the players a few words of French. We were all obsessed with playing it. When I left the school to return to England, the class clubbed together and bought me a set of “Mille Borne” cards as a farewell gift. although my fellow students at the Lab School were about two years older than me, they made me feel very welcome and were extremely friendly towards me. The same was the case for my class teacher, Ms Alice Flickinger, and the sports teacher, Mr Patlak.