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Category: France
A French café charges extra for rudeness. What price do you place on manners?
This particular sign is being displayed in a café in France in order to encourage politeness from customers. The proprietors of the café have not enforced the charges but say that there has been an increase in customer politeness since the sign was displayed.
Paris then and now. . .a gift
This delightful book was given to me by my husband. I think he knows how much I want to spend a week in Paris. 🙂 Each double page spread gives two images of the same scene in Paris, one from the past and one from the present. Some of the places have changed very little…
Paris, I do so want to spend some time there.
This beautiful little book is another from the library and one that I am so glad I found. One of the comments on the book jacket was that this is a book you should read before going to Paris rather than after you have been. Well now I have read the book the next logical…
Drugs in sport, particularly cycling
I seem to have been on somewhat of a Tour de France kick lately. Since reading Seven Deadly Sins by David Walsh I have now read this book by John Wilcockson. I was looking at the sports section in the library and spotted it and thought that since I had read about the Lance Armstrong…
Alpe d’Huez and the Seven Deadly Sins
My latest piece of reading has been related to the Tour de France. I spotted this book at the library as it was on the new books shelf. In light of the recent revelations about doping in cycling I thought it would make an interesting read. It is ironic that as I finished reading this book,…
Gippsland Granny 