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Yeboah the gorilla - a French "lover" in London

Yeboah the gorilla - a French "lover" in London

French men have something of a reputation - deserved or not - when it comes to "ardour and amour". Whether they actually live up to it is, of course, open to debate. But what of their male counterparts in the rest of the animal kingdom? (...)

3 Mar. 2010 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Bad Weather is Innocent of Meknes Disaster

Bad Weather is Innocent of Meknes Disaster

On Feb.19, 41 worshippers were killed and more than 70 injured when a minaret collapsed at a mosque in the central town of Meknes, 140 km southwest of Rabat. "About 300 worshippers gathered inside the mosque for the Friday afternoon mass prayers. When the (...)

3 Mar. 2010 | 1 comment | Jamal Elabiad

Marseille’s overzealous radars leave drivers seeing red

Careful how you drive if you happen to be paying a visit to the southeastern French city of Marseille. Recently-installed radars are doing their work - and then some - and not always to the benefit of the law-abiding motorist it would appear. In a (...)

18 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

French baker fined for sounding his horn gets his day in court

French baker fined for sounding his horn gets his day in court

Paulo Païs appeared in a French court on Monday to appeal a 1,000 euros fine imposed on him for breaking the highway code and "misusing his van horn" while making his early morning rounds. Païs runs a bakery in Nesles-la-Vallée, a village 40 (...)

17 Feb. 2010 | 2 comments | Johnny Summerton

Modane - a French town that shares its name with a laxative

Modane - a French town that shares its name with a laxative

It’s winter here in Europe, just to state the obvious. And of course that means snow and enough of it hopefully for French ski resorts and surrounding towns to do a booming business in tourism. But one small town in the département of Savoie (...)

28 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Johnny Summerton

Panicking ponies in busy Paris traffic

Panicking ponies in busy Paris traffic

Now here’s a sight you don’t see every day in Paris - thank goodness. And one motorists on the boulevard périphérique, the busy ring road around the French capital, probably had a hard time believing: riderless ponies galloping through the (...)

25 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Johnny Summerton

Madness on a French motorway - changing drivers at 130km/h

Madness on a French motorway - changing drivers at 130km/h

While most motorists might get from A to B with only the slightest of hitches and the minimum of mistakes there are also of course plenty of daft driving stories, plain stupid ones, those involving reckless fools and others simply defying belief. What (...)

22 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Johnny Summerton

French man saves pregnant woman from drowning

Give it up for Eddy Devauchelle, a true modern-day hero in the real sense of the word, if ever there were one. Last Wednesday evening, the 42-year-old electrician jumped into a freezing cold river to rescue a pregnant woman who was trapped inside a (...)

12 Jan. 2010 | 3 comments | Johnny Summerton

Lesson learnt from flatulent turtles sounding the alarm

Lesson learnt from flatulent turtles sounding the alarm

Christmas and New Year might have come and gone, but here’s a tale that (among other things) involves the mightily underrated brussels sprout - a seasonal favourite to dedicated fans. Thanks must go in advance to the weekly French news magazine, (...)

11 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Johnny Summerton

France’s "miracle" babies

France's "miracle" babies

Extra value in this end-of-year piece in that it’s a "triple pack" if you will. Three stories connected to each other only in the sense that they all happened in France over the past week and in each instance involved a baby or a young (...)

31 Dec. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Unwelcome seasonal electricity bill greetings from EDF

Electricity doesn’t come cheap, even in a country where most of it is produced by nuclear power stations. But in a couple of cases this past week customers of the French utility company, Electricité de France (EDF) had rather a nasty Christmas (...)

31 Dec. 2009 | 2 comments | Johnny Summerton

France - Has anyone seen my wallaby?

Eora the missing wallaby in southwestern France. Understandably perhaps not a question often asked here in France where the most usual "lost" signs when it comes to domestic pets, would be for a missing moggy or a peripatetic pooch. But for (...)

16 Dec. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

The longest chip in the world is...(of course) a French fried potato

There’s something strange going on in the north of France. Just a couple of months after the folk of Sainghin-en-Weppes created a new record for the world’s longest chip, French fry, frite or whatever you choose to call it, those from (...)

9 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

A slice of life in France - Toulouse "la Ville Rose"

Toulouse is surely one of those French cities that has a touch of magic to it. Just the mention of its name brings, for many, romantic images to mind. Famous for its terracotta brick buildings, which give the city its most common nickname*, "la (...)

28 Oct. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

The Fight to Save a Local Post Office

The Fight to Save a Local Post Office

A recent decision by Canada Post Corporation to ring the death knell for the Junction’s postal outlet was met with a rallying cry apparently heard as far as Ottawa. I learned about the threat on Oct. 10th while out walking my dog, when I bumped into (...)

28 oct. 2009 | | BlogTO

French motorcyclist fined for wearing contact lenses

French motorcyclist fined for wearing contact lenses

All right the headline is a little misleading as will become clear. But in essence it’s what happened. Once again it’s time to say "road users in France beware". After the recent case of a motorist being fined (€22) for (...)

16 Oct. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Why numbers matter in France

What’s in a number? Well quite a lot in France it appears if the latest figures released for car registration plates here are to be believed. In order of popularity the French have plumped for the following numbers to be included on their car (...)

16 Oct. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Dinosaur Exhibition - Total Nepp

Currently there is a dinosaur exhibition in Vienna showing plastic animals moving their limbs like a breakdancer. Totally overpriced it’s at maximum fun for very little children. Those, though, enjoy it. The guides are funny - they’ve (...)

12 oct. 2009 | | Novala

Tube passenger dragged along platform by bag

A cautionary tale really showing how you should be careful about getting things stuck in London Underground doors. Lee Roberts was trying to get onto some crowded Northern Line trains. He said "When the fourth train arrived and the doors opened I (...)

9 oct. 2009 | | Annie Mole

Chirac’s dog retires to the country

Not everyone loves a shaggy dog story as they tend to go on for far too long and when the climax is eventually reached the listeners are often left scratching their heads wondering what exactly the point of the whole thing was. Well to keep things as (...)

2 Oct. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

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