Heh. Yes, there are some interesting divisions of labor in the French economy that are just a bit different than in the US. In 2002 I went with friends on a tour of the Alps from Grenoble to Nice.
http://members.bitstream.net/~timmcn/alps2002-1.html One of the other guests at the gite near Bourg-d'Oisans was half an a Francophile husband-and-wife team, who traveled in France several times a year. His comment on this was "the French have a love of bureaucracy, delighting in making up rules so that they can ignore them." The stereotype the French did live up to was cooking. My goodness, a nation of fine cooks! Tim On Feb 8, 2014, at 1:33 PM, dougP <dougpn...@cox.net> wrote: > We tried to change money at a bank in France, and were told "This is a bank; > we do not change money. Go to the post office for that." Part of what makes > other countries so interesting. > > > On Saturday, February 8, 2014 8:12:54 AM UTC-8, Eric Norris wrote: > Ask the French. They wrote the rules, and like so much of life in France, it > doesn't make logical sense. (Want stamps? Find a Tobacconist!) > > > On Feb 8, 2014, at 5:26 AM, Deacon Patrick <lamon...@mac.com> wrote: > >> Out of curiosity, why 90 hours rather than an even 4 days? >> >> With abandon, >> Patrick >> >> On Saturday, February 8, 2014 6:08:36 AM UTC-7, Iron Rider wrote: >> A 1200k brevet is a 750 mile ride that has to be completed in less than 90 >> hours. Bill and Mark Olsen regularly ride these epic events. Mark rides an >> A. Homer Hilsen. They recently completed an interview describing their >> approach. You can read it here: >> http://eprider.blogspot.com/2014/02/riding-grand-randonees-olsen-brothers.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
