Thu, Oct 27, 2016
France … How much we read, looked, dreamed about it. Like us
They wanted to visit Versailles, where kings marched, to see
ambiguous, but such an alluring Bois de Boulogne, take a stroll through
Champs Elysees, look at the Eiffel Tower, sit in a cafe and
eat crispy croissants and enjoy the real evening
French wine, looking at passing by well-groomed women.
Like us мечтали зайти во французские бутики и купить сувениры
friends and yourself some french-french subject
toilet – beret or elegant silk scarf. But visiting the country
which was so long dreamed of, it turns out that you can not love
France What for?
1. For the inexplicable high cost of living and for the endless rise in prices,
comparable only, perhaps, with the Russian. So, a liter of gas costs
more than 1.5 euros and to get from the capital to, say, Nice
have to pay 200 euros. It’s been a long time ago when
absolutely any products you could buy in the supermarket next to
home. Now the French are forced at an affordable cost.
cigarettes and alcohol travel to nearby countries.
2. For the pathological contempt of the French to foreigners. If you
don’t speak french then you’re doomed to dumb life among
speaking The French basically do not want to speak foreign
languages. This is their national linguistic chauvinism.
3. For detachment, closeness of people. Great if you have
french friends, you’re in luck. The French are very localized, normal
Their circle of friends is family and childhood friends.
4. For a strange work schedule catering point: from 12 to 14 hours.
Could not have lunch at this time? Your problems, wait for dinner. Speech
about the possibility to recycle at least an hour will be perceived as
personal insult. Therefore, your only choice will remain
some food, for example, from an Arab or Chinese shop.
5. For cars coming to pick up trash at six in the morning,
waking you up with your crash. And all because it is prescribed by decree
City Hall or approved by the union.
6. For the peculiar work of the housing system
households and household services. For example, plumbing you can wait
ten days, and cleaning the clothes in the dry cleaner – a week. They say that
even the installation of the Internet has to wait for three to four months.
7. On Sundays and public holidays, everything is always closed (for us,
Russians, this has long become wilderness). Believed that you should
find yourself entertainment: church, chatting with friends, skating
on bicycles or rollerblades through the streets of Paris, etc.
8. For the French stage, where Johnny Holiday still holds the ball
and Mireille Mathieu. And new names of the ZAZ level appear very rarely.
9. For the notorious Cote d’Azur at the end of the summer, when tourists from
all points of the planet besieged coveted coast. For the beach umbrella,
just like in Sochi in Soviet times, you have to fight even
beaches of expensive private hotels.
10. And finally, for Paris, which has become extinct since August. When all,
finally go on vacation at the same time and have to go for a bun
half an hour, and the city is filled with tourists wandering the streets of the capital,
wandering aimlessly through expensive shops, marveling at prices and languishing from
heat waves.
Text: Irina Sheyhetova
