Old people tend to eat early. Active works usually prefer to have a breather before starting cooking.
My mom used to start cooking around 7pm, and she made everything from scratch, so we ate around 8.30pm.
Saying Bonjour is not considered an interruption. She would have said it back to you and continued her conversation as if nothing happened.
People do get unreasonably cranky in touristy areas, probably because they feel like tourists are rude to them (even if they obviously don't…Â
13. Hopefully this will change with the new french and European anti plastics laws. We're still pretty bad at recycling tho, mainly because our government never subsidized this industry.
14. Château de Versaille's park is heavily visited by tourists and maintaining its gardens already…Â
11. Summers weren't so hot in the past, cities weren't as big and polluted, so our buildings weren't made for AC. Newer buildings usually have it, we had some installed at my grandpa's.
12. I don't live in Paris but in another big city. July and August traditionally are school aged…Â
7. Non smoker here, but my mom does since she's 11 and is somewhat proud of it. For some, it's cultural, for others I'd wager it helps them socialize.
8. If it's in Paris, they simply don't have much time, I guess?
9. When I lived in the US, I felt like all this small talk was for…Â
1. Faire la bise is pretty casual actually. I have never done it to any of my managers, we usually shake hands. However, I sometimes do it to other managers that are not directly above me. It really comes down to each other's preferences.
2. My lunch break lasts only one hour. No…Â
My boyfriend's actually a morning person but does not have his shit together AT ALL. On weekdays, he snoozes like three times before getting up (ruining the 15 minutes of sleep I have left), but once he's up, he doesn't mind talking having full conversations with the cat and the bun,…Â
Well, the family selling these masks is not French.
The justice allowed them to be sold only because they were classified as works of art ( and they're not ), so the French justice couldn't really do anything as far as law goes. And, last but not least, the people who go…Â
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