Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Monday, November 03, 2008
French coverage of the US election....
Nice, France - As I sit here, I am amazed at the amount and quality of the French coverage of the US Presidential election. Newspapers, radio, television, websites, are all pulling out the stops to bring this story to their readers, viewers, listeners and "visitors". They have been counting down the days for two weeks now, and there is great excitement in the reporting but a strong dose of uncertainty about whether the US really can elect a Black President. French reporters and French people have been all over the US offering their perspectives during recent days, and one of the national TV networks sent over a whole planeload of people to cover the story.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
Saturday, September 06, 2008
"Now Europeans Are Slower to Spend, and It Shows" - NYTimes.com
French retail spending is up just a little.....as shown in the graphic.
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
"La France comme vous ne l'avez jamais vue" - Journal du Net Economie
A fascinating cartographic tour of France.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
"Les leaders mondiaux de la restauration" - Journal du Net Economie
Fascinating profile of the top 20 global firms, including French and US, in the restaurant business.
"Classement - Les secteurs qui emploient le plus" - Journal du Net Economie
A breakdown of the sectors into which French workers fall today....
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Thursday, July 03, 2008
"Cost of Driving May Work Where Politics Failed and Keep Cars Off City Streets" - NYTimes.com
I look forward to making a comparison between gas prices in the US and their impact on congestion as this article reports and in France.
Monday, June 30, 2008
"Collobrières Journal - A French Village Revives the Franc" - NYTimes.com
France lost a great deal more than the franc as its money when it switched to the euro.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Conseil Régional Languedoc Roussillon
The TV commercial is quite something.....at least the one that they are featuring as I post this.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Other things not changed so much
After having noted much change in France, I must also note that so far this week we have had truck drivers essentially on strike, slowing down considerably if not blocking acccess to the Nice Airport, a near total shutdown of bus and local train services here yesterday because of a strike and today the public television stations were to be on strike to some extent. Not sure what is schedule for tomorrow!
France changing
France surely has changed a lot in the decades since I started coming here.
Now, for example, laws are pretty strict to prevent drinking and driving (and highway deaths are way down), new laws prohibit smoking in most public places (and some of those places are shuttering because of loss of customers; and the non-smoking customers get a better chance at life as a result) and now soon the law will require that people pick up after their dogs (quel horreur!). No doubt the latter will remove a certain je ne sais quoi from French sidewalk life, but I look forward to being able to look straight ahead, not smell any tobacco smoke and not read about lives ended prematurely as a result of drunken driving.
Now, for example, laws are pretty strict to prevent drinking and driving (and highway deaths are way down), new laws prohibit smoking in most public places (and some of those places are shuttering because of loss of customers; and the non-smoking customers get a better chance at life as a result) and now soon the law will require that people pick up after their dogs (quel horreur!). No doubt the latter will remove a certain je ne sais quoi from French sidewalk life, but I look forward to being able to look straight ahead, not smell any tobacco smoke and not read about lives ended prematurely as a result of drunken driving.
Sunday, June 08, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Nice.maville.com Les brocanteurs azuréens déclarent la guerre à eBay
I would not invest much in brocanteur "futures"!
Monday, March 24, 2008
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Friday, January 25, 2008
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