Before I learned about the places where high-energy physics is done, I was under the impression that Frascati came in bottles. But the world's physicists have taken all the old familiar names and given them strange new meanings. To the average boy Copenhagen means beautiful blond girls, but ask a physicist. Orsay used to be the name of a suburban train station in Paris (in the present political climate it will hardly do to mention the French foreign ministry), and Fontenay-aux-Roses should belong to the troubadours. But what has happened to it?