Despite a good experience that some of you may have had with Parisians, they still have the reputation of often being short, rude, and self absorbed–even among Parisians themselves! Up to a point that Le Parisien, the only local paper, uses this fact it in its advertisement. The one going on at the moment says: “Le [...]
According to the OECD, the French spend more time eating and sleeping than people from any other wealthy country. The eating part isn’t that surprising (although I thought the Spanish or Italians would be at the top), but as far as the sleeping – I’m clearly missing out on this aspect of living in France. [...]
I have noticed something unusual…or maybe not, about the French and their use of old names to countries or cities and not the said country’s desired change of name. For example: I know in the USA, we now refer to the large Indian capital city as Mumbai, not Bombay, which it was called for hundreds [...]
