White Beer Travels. What's in a Name? All is revealed on the Home Page! Schneider Weisse, a well-travelled, classic Wheat/White Beer, brewed in Bavaria by Schneider. Click on the image to go to their website Below is described John White's translation service into his mother tongue from French. Details are also given of two organisations that can provide the reverse service. The White Beer Travels website covers Specialty Beer (Speciality Beer, Craft Beer)
Belgian Beer, German Beer, British Real Ale, North American Craft Beer and Speciality Beer from around the world, are all covered in this White Beer Travels website This White Beer Travels website has been in operation since March, 2002. It promotes Speciality/Craft Beer from around the world: Belgian Beer, German Beer, Craft Beer from the USA and Canada, Real Ale from the UK, etc
 
Click here to go to the "White Beer Travels" Home PageClick here for Speciality Beer and Brewery News. Also check out the "Archives" for "old" news!Click to find details of Beer Hunts that you can joinClick here to get information on "Past Beer Hunts" organised by "White Beer Travels"Click here for information on what to expect on a typical Beer Hunt organised by White Beer TravelsCurrent "Pub of the Month". See the "Archives" page for links to the other onesClick here for John White's Beer CV (Curriculum Vitae, Résumé) Click here for past Pubs of the Month, News, etcClick here for downloadable guides to places, breweries and barsClick here for "Links" to other websites. There are many on the other pages of the site, as well!Click here for full details on how to contact White Beer TravelsClick here for information on how the site was built, including acknowledgement of any help receivedClick for details, in French, of the French to English Translation Service offered by White Beer Travels, & for the contact details of organisations that can provide the reverse
Belgian Beer and other great Speciality/Craft Beers, these including Real Ale from the UK and Craft Beers from the USA and Canada, are promoted on this, the White Beer Travels website. It is a big site, so to get an outline idea of the contents, click here to go to the site's Contents page
  Würzburg, in Germany, is world-renowned for its "Franken" wines. However, White (Wheat) Beers have certainly travelled to the city. The three different ones shown here are excellent examples. All are brewed in the city's Würzburger Hofbräu Brewery. Click on the glasses to go to the brewery's website, from which the image was pasted
 
 

Your cursor is on a scanned photo taken in 'Le Musée Européen de la Bière, et du Pays de Stenay' (The Museum of European Beer and the Stenay Area), in Stenay, in Lorraine, in France. This is a don't-miss museum for the Speciality/Craft Beer fan. Click on the photo, to go to the museum's website

This photo shows John White (1945-) in "Le Musée Européen de la Bière, et du Pays de Stenay" (The Museum of European Beer and the Stenay Area), in Stenay, in Lorraine, in France (rue de la Citadelle, tel 03 29 80 68 78, www.musee-de-la-biere.com, during a visit by White Beer Travels Beer Hunters, click here for more information. The group's guide was the museum's then Curator Philippe Voluer; John White acted as French to English Interpreter for him. John forgot to ask the name of the "customer" in this photo of the museum's bar exhibit! A November, 1999 photo by White Beer Travels Beer Hunt and recce trip regular, Dr Eric Clow.

 

 

White Beer Travels provides a professional service for French to English translation.

Should you have a requirement for English to French translation, then below you will find details of organisations that White Beer Travels can highly recommend that offer this.

 

 

Your cursor is on a Babel Fish Translation logo. This is a free-of-charge, but fairly rudimentary automatic translation facility, but you may find it of use for simple words or phrasesClick on the Babel Fish to the left to go to the Babel Fish Translation Web page. This provides automatic translation between a number of European languages, as does the Google facility, www.google.com/translate. It can be OK for simple, non-technical phrases, but for professional results, a translation service is needed.

 

 

French to English Translation Service

Click here for the French version of this page

Cliquez ici la version française de cette page

After graduating with a Degree in Chemical Engineering in 1969 and a Masters Degree in Control Engineering in 1970, John White spent all his working life, in the Oil and Chemical Industries. In 1984 he joined what is now Total Lindsey Oil Refinery Ltd, near Grimsby, in England, which is owned by the French company, Total (www.total.com). John retired from Total, in June, 2003.

Further details on John's career in industry are contained in John's General CV, which can be downloaded to your PC by clicking on the hyperlink in this sentence, or the one at the bottom of the page. It is in Adobe Systems' "Portable Document Format (PDF), see the Downloads page for more information on this. John's Detailed Career History is also available.

Working for a French company significantly exposed John to the French language. After an extensive course in French in Paris, John had a lengthy assignment to Total facilities in France. Whilst there he was required to translate, from French into his mother tongue, all the specification pertaining to his own discipline, and technical and legal documents required for the construction and purchase of a major new production facility. He has also done translation work for beer-related organisations, such as: Het Blauwershof, a classic bar in Godewaersvelde, in France; Heineken; and the Belgian Monastic Brewery, Orval (www.orval.be and White Beer Travels Web page).

John's has been fully immersed in the particular jargon of the Oil, Chemical and Brewing Industries, in both English and in French, and can thus ensure that the correct terminology is used when carrying out translations in these fields, something that is as important as the ability to translate everyday French into English.

White Beer Travels is thus able to offer a cost-effective, yet high quality French to English translation service. The current rate for this is €0.12 per target (English) word, with a minimum payment of €40. Work which does not lend itself to a "per word" rate, such as client-generated modifications to previous translations done by White Beer Travels, would be charged at a rate of  €48 per hour. For payment options, see below.

The documents(s) to be translated would typically be sent to White Beer Travels as e-mail attachment(s) and would be returned the same way. The original format of the document(s) would be preserved.

John very much looks forward to handling your French to English translation requirements. Should you require further information, please do not hesitate to get in touch with John; this can be done by e-mail, by clicking here; his other contact details can be found by clicking on Contact Details.

An example of John's translation work is to be found on the website for the Bruxellensis Festival (www.festivalbruxellensis.be), a beer festival that is held in the Belgian capital of Brussels. The English pages on this website are John's translations of its French pages.

Payments for White Beer Travels Translation Services

Payments to White Beer Travels (WBT) can be paid with a sterling cheque made payable to White Beer Travels, click here for contact details, or by using PayPal®, by clicking on the button to the right. Further information on the renowned PayPal® system follows.

PayPal® is a free-of-charge payment system, which is easy to use, is secure, and costs nothing to use. Note that one can pay using PayPal®in the currency appropriate to your country of origin. Payment is especially easy, if you are already a PayPal® member, but is quite straightforward, if you are not, i.e. it is essentially as per any other secure Credit Card purchase, with the bonus of one becoming a PayPal® member at the end of it, this being especially useful should you wish to purchase anything on the world-famous eBay® system, eBay® being the owners of PayPal®. Even without a Credit Card, one can still use PayPal® to make a payment to White Beer Travels; this requires first setting up a PayPal® account and funding it with money from a normal bank account, see the PayPal® website, https://www.paypal.com, for more details. Note that the "s" in the "https" at the front of the PayPal® website address, denotes that the site is a secure one.

English to French Translation Services

John only carries out translations into his mother tongue: English. However, he can highly recommend the services of the following native French speakers for English to French translation:

Sylviane Parker

Sylviane, who resides in the same town in England as John, is a French teacher at the local college. She also provides French lessons for local companies, such as an affiliate of Total, the one that John worked for until retirement; he is still one of her pupils. On the beer front, it was Sylviane who translated the extensive questionnaires sent to French-speaking brewers and café owners for Tim Webb's Good Beer Guide Belgium (www.booksaboutbeer.com, White Beer Travels Web page). Sylviane can be contacted by:

Your cursor is on an animated GIF of an e-mail. Click on it or the e-mail address to the right to contact Sylviane Parker
 Your cursor is on an image of Sylviane Parker's e-mail address. Click on it to send an e-mail to Sylviane
Your cursor is on an animated GIF of a phone. From the UK, Sylviane Parker's phone number is 01472 310595
Your cursor is on an animated GIF of a fax machine. From the UK, Sylviane Parker's fax number is 01472 310595 telephone or fax on +44 1472 310595
Your cursor is on an animated GIF of a mobile phone (cell phone). From the UK, Sylviane Parker's mobile number is 07921 512865
 on her mobile (cell phone) on +44 7921 512865

Alain Randon of Babylon Translations s.l.

John met Alain, who runs a professional translation agency, when they were both living in Middelburg in The Netherlands. During this time Alain commissioned John to do French to English Translation work for a number of clients, something that he has carried on doing to this day. Indeed, Alain can be contacted as a reference vis-à-vis the quality of John's work. Alain also translates into French from other languages, such as Dutch/Flemish. For further details, Alain, who now lives in the Canary Islands, can be contacted by:

Your cursor is on an animated GIF of an e-mail. Click on it or the e-mail address to the right to contact Alain Randon
Your cursor is on an image of Alain Randon's e-mail address. Click on it to send an e-mail to Alain
Your cursor is on an animated GIF of a phone. From Spain, Babylon Translations' telephone number is 0928 16 38 85
 telephone on +34 928 16 38 85
Your cursor is on an animated GIF of a mobile phone (cell phone). Alain Randon's mobile number in Spain is 0696 299 695
 mobile (cell phone) on +34 696 299 695
Your cursor is on an animated GIF of a fax machine. Babylon Translations' fax number is 0928 16 38 86 from Spain
 fax on +34 928 16 38 86
Your cursor is on an animated GIF of a snail. Snail mail is perfectly acceptable by Babylon Translations!
 or by writing to - Alain Randon
 

Babylon Translations s.l.
Las Lomas del Castillo 3
35610 Caleta de Fuste (Fuerteventura)
Islas Canarias España

Other Translation Services

Translation Services USA

This company offers a full-range of translation services, in over 100 languages. Further information, including contact details, can be found on its website, www.translation-services-usa.com.

Back to Top

Belgian Beer, just about the world's most renowned Speciality Beer is promoted on this website, along with great beer from all over the world
Contents