We had heard and read, that in France, you’ve got to watch the sidewalks very closely…they don’t “Poopy Scoop” and there is dog shit everywhere…”WATCH OUT !!! Another thing of interest ???…When a man has to go, he has to go…and I mean he will just stop his car right on the sidewalk, walk down a hill of grass a little bit (still very much in sight), and go…or when he is out walking with his wife, he may find a fence just off the sidewalk and …well… Just a couple of interesting points… Oh yes, if you want to stop by a coffee house or restaurant and have a “cappuccino” (they don’t have “Lattes”), you had better have it standing (there are very few that will have it to “take away”), because if you sit down to drink it, the cost of that cup of coffee goes up about 30%… in all the countries that we have traveled through in the last year (19), France has the fewest that speak English…now don’t miss-understand me, I have and still do feel, that if you are visiting or living in a country different from the one you carry a drivers license from, you should at least have a few words to convey to the host…it’s just…well, you know…
Bread…the French bread, and especially the baguette, deserve the prize for taste…the Greek bread…well, we now know how they got so good with the “Discus” throw…the bread is sooo dense and taste-less that it was all we could do but toss it ourselves. Getting back to the French and their baguette, I can remember once seeing an older man with his arms full of groceries and tied onto his dogs back was 2 loaves of baguettes… Ok, one more tid-bit…we are “Hooked” on “Sour Worms”…