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I really wish American’s would value vacation as much as the Europeans do. But it is a pain when everything shuts down. I was had to go outside Paris for work a few years ago and the genius of the Air Force sent me during this time of the year. Nobody was at EADS doing any work, so I hung out on that makeshift beach the whole time drinking wine and eating cheese.
It sounds a little like living in a resort/vacation community during the off season. We face that similar situation every winter (although there are still grocery stores open)
It’s a bit of a shock and even after nearly 9 years in France I still find it frustrating. Even more so the 2.5 hour closing for lunch from which they can turn up 20 minutes late after you’ve been waiting outside!
It’s all about culture and a really good help with understanding it can be had with this book :
link to amazon.com
You are in Europe now. That paper is probably A4, not US Letter sized. :-)
I thought the same when I read about the standard 8.5×11″ format.
The European paper formats are a better solution, all sizes have the same ratio of height to width.
French do capitalize the months’ first letter.
Not sure if we should learn french grammar in front of a Chinese restaurant :)
I don’t know, but everything I can find on the Internets says you don’t captilize the months or days of the week – unless they happen to be the first word in a sentenance.
For reference:
link to french.about.com
link to meta.wikimedia.org
link to dummies.com
So much for me! I’ve always though those as proper noun and used a capital letter. One more thing I’ve learned from your site :)
You have also to understand that shops are closing because, first vacations are good (and shop workers like vacanations like everybody ;-) ), second because as vacations are good, nobody is still in town at that time thus business is falling down, thus shops are taking a time off…
By the way, the fountains in Versailles are not working all together because it works like in the older time (you can’t modify ann historical monument in France), without electricity and thus you have to save the water!! Reserves are on the top of the building (link to youtube.com).
By the way, what about a race event in France? link to ironmanpaysdaix.com
BR, Mark
no a/c? is that common practice in eu?
While not unheard of, a/c is not common in Europe. You’re also more likely to find them in offices and shops than in private homes.
It’s fun to read you comments to European way of life. Things that are verry verry normal for us, seem to suprise you a lot.
I’m Belgian, and we don’t have the 2.5 break during mid-day, but everything else is the same here. No A/C as “standard equipment” here either, and this year it is really really really hot, so we really mis it!
just reading through some of the Paris blogs and came across this one – the Boulanger you visit was the one I went to when visiting Paris in ’04! It wasn’t exactly our “local” – we were staying next to Gard du Nord, but damn they had some mighty fine pastries and sweets! My favourite was just a camambert baguette with whatever sweet took my fancy, and we would then take them to the park not far away by the river overlooking Notre Dame. I would be constantly pinching myself over how incredible Paris was, still my favourite city!
Funny, small world! Indeed, from Gare du Nord down there is a bit of a haul!
I was rooting for the apartment in Notre Dam. Does the ice cream shop still exist?
Also about the month long vacations that the french shops take…someone should come in and offer to sublease and sell cupcakes.
Yup, absolutely still exists. We visit it frequently. ;)
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