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The weather in France, 12/11/05
Bird Flu Hits France
Books
We're all aware that the French and the British seem to do everything they can to be different from each other. We know about driving on opposite sides of the road, using squared writing paper (France) as opposited to lined paper (UK) at school and, of course, making sure that each's computer keyboard is unusable by the other. But I wonder how many people have noticed this one. Observe these two photographs of books:
Books published in Britain
Books published in France
Can you spot the difference? The same thing happens with CDs and DVDs.
Eating out?
Here's a photo of a Vietnamese Restaurant that may not be quite to the taste of anglophones! It's at 152 Bd Vincent Auriol in the 13th. Does anyone want to try it and send us a review?
What's wrong with this picture?
Guess where the price labels are.
Well, not quite Paris, but the headline says it all:
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