What comes to your mind when you think of France? (3 Viewers)

[Bodi]

Yes but does it have to be from those regions to be lawfully called Cognac?

Yes.

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[Bodi]

Distinction w/o a difference.

There is a difference between capability and intent...

g

 

[Fledermaus]

Wine, bread, cheese...

Notre Dame

Winning under a Corsican, losing under the French.

 

[Rexedgar]

Escargot!

They are just an excuse to eat garlic butter, go on, you’d eat anything covered with garlic butter…..

 

[Allan]

The neighborhoods of Paris and other French cities and towns - cheese, wine, bread, fruit and chocolate shops.

I walked those streets for hours and hours.

 

[Bucky]

baguettes, cheese, olives, and wine ..... etc ....

Fake Freedom.

 

[Allan]

They are just an excuse to eat garlic butter, go on, you’d eat anything covered with garlic butter…..

Why do you think God invented lobster!

 

[Rexedgar]

I think of french cooking, which is the best in the world.

Yeah, but the dinner hour doesn’t start in time for Americans!

 

[Allan]

Fake Freedom.

Read the room fail.

 

[Allan]

Yeah, but the dinner hour doesn’t start in time for Americans!

And the staff eats first.

 

[VanceMack]

Story about tourist lines; we went to Ireland, among other things, to see the Book of Kells at Trinity College in Dublin. Arrived to find a long line going from the book, inside the library extending out into the mall outside the library. I really really wanted to see the stunning illuminations so we five waited patiently in line 3/4 hour moving slowly up to the open book displayed in a glass case. Finally it was my turn. With great excitement it bent over the book which was open to a page with one blue capital T.

We took a 19 day multi-country trip that my wife and her writers group coordinated. The tour guide booked everything and it was so nice to be able to walk from the van right into the sites. We werent rushed anywhere we went.

 

[ataraxia]

baguettes, cheese, olives, and wine ..... etc ....

The music of Camille Saint-Saens and Frederic Chopin, the literature of Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas, the poetry of Rabelais and Rimbaud, the paintings of Eugène Delacroix and Jacques-Louis David, the science of Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie, Henri Poincaré, Louis de Broglie, and the philosophies of Michel de Montaigne, Voltaire, Diderot, Derrida, Deleuze, etc...

 

[Rexedgar]

The neighborhoods of Paris and other French cities and towns - cheese, wine, bread, fruit and chocolate shops.

I walked those streets for hours and hours.

Yeah, but when you get hungry, you can hit a few shops and get a decent meal to take back to your hotel. There is a reason that the French have daily bread deliveries and we can eat on a loaf of US bread for a week or more….

 

[weaver2]

We couldn't get into the Book of Kells because the tickets were sold out, so we asked if we could take a look at the gift shop. Went in and after wandering around for a while, ended up through a doorway, voila, Book of Kells and no line. Oops.

We went on a Sunday, mistakenly thinking everybody would be in church, wrong! Dublin on Sunday morning looks like the first day of a county fair.

 

[Allan]

The music of Camille Saint-Saens and Frederic Chopin, the literature of Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas, the poetry of Rabelais and Rimbaud, the paintings of Eugène Delacroix and Jacques-Louis David, the science of Henri Pasteur, Marie Curie, Henri Poincaré, Louis de Broglie, and the philosophies of Michel de Montaigne, Voltaire, Diderot, Derrida, Deleuze, etc...

Albert Camus.

 

[MAGAnificent]

What objectives did we achieve in any of those conflicts?

I will leave you to your extreme confusion.

 

[Rexedgar]

I will leave you to your extreme confusion.

I accept your surrender.

 

[RF667799]

Anytime I was out fishing and ran across some big bullfrogs in a pond, I would bring some home for my grandfather.

 

[Allan]

Something I like about Europe that is exemplified in France (and Italy) is everyday street style.

People, even kids and teenagers, dress so fashionably.

Even older retired people dress to impress.

 

[RF667799]

Something I like about Europe that is exemplified in France (and Italy) is everyday street style.

People, even kids and teenagers, dress so fashionably.

Even older retired people dress to impress.

Sounds awful from the perspective of a river rat.

Starting a few weeks ago, my daily uniform became cargo shorts, sandals, pocket t-shirt, and either a ball cap or boonie hat. I couldn't give two shits if I impress anyone or not. If I needed to negotiate some rough terrain, I might change my sandals for socks and hiking boots.

 

[EthanB]

Now that reminds me; isn't their food thingies so small in size?

My observation about bread with cheeses after dinner came from back in the 90's; I was working in France for a few weeks, so a lot of restaurants. Small food portions depends on perspective; I know that today, restaurant meal sizes are huge in the U.S. A couple of years ago I was staying at a Hilton in Paris; across the street was McDonalds. So after 25 years perhaps their food portions have grown too.

 

[Allan]

Sounds awful from the perspective of a river rat

We went with another couple to Nice a few years ago. They live in an industrial city where the style would be best described as "Walmart shopper".

We warned them!

Didn't work though and there were a lot of places they couldn't get into, especially in Monaco.

 

[Pyrite]

baguettes, cheese, olives, and wine ..... etc ....

Paris

flying buttresses

croissants, croque-monsieurs

people-watching

 

[RF667799]

We went with another couple to Nice a few years ago. They live in an industrial city where the style would be best described as "Walmart shopper".

We warned them!

Didn't work though and there were a lot of places they couldn't get into, especially in Monaco.

Unfathomable to me to want to go to such a place.

 

[Allan]

Unfathomable to me to want to go to such a place.

"That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me".

-Adriana, Midnight in Paris