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I don't think that anybody who knows me will accuse me of being a fashion victim like e.g. Carrie Bradshaw, but I admit to having a weakness for yellow dots. No just any yellow dots, but those that you can find in the streets of Paris next to a big, white...
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La rentrée is a very French concept which is widely used about everything from la rentrée scolaire to la rentrée politique. In the metro there are big advertisements for clothes for the rentrée and furniture for the rentrée, and I also noticed a magazine...
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No, no, I am not referring to my moral virtues but to my French name day, which is celebrated on 17 July. Until the moment I arrived in France I did not even know that I had a name day. In Denmark we do not celebrate name days, presumably because they...
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I was a big fan in the 1980ies and then I forgot about comics...... Wolinski was one of my favourites. His drawings of men and women having sex (or not) and his drawings about the problems between generations; I just loved them! In 2011 Georges Wolinski...
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I understand that in all Western European countries employees pay income tax at the source, also called PAYE (pay-as-you-earn) or PAYG (pay-as-you-go). In the UK the system was tested in 1940-41 and introduced in 1944. In Denmark taxation at source, as...
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My contact to the official part of Denmark seems to have been reduced to a visit to the Danish Consulate in Paris every 10 years when my passport expires. My passport is the only document proving my nationality and my identity, so it actually feels like...
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As from tomorrow 1 July 2012 cars on the French roads have to be equipped with a drunkometer (or, as one says these days, a breathalyser. This is in addition to the red triangle and the fluorescent yellow vest with retroreflective stripes). I have not...
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From my office desk I look at two towers: the Eiffel Tower and the Montparnasse Tower. The first one I visited when I came to Paris in secondary school, the second one I visited on Friday after work. The occasion was a book fair called "Paris se Livre",...
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The only reason for me sitting in this beautiful church on a sunny Saturday evening was a simple notice in a shop window that I passed in the first instance but then turned around to have a second look: "César Franck's Ruth in Notre Dame du Travail"....
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This is the new logo of the Museums of Orsay and of l'Orangerie. It looks a bit like the MOMO, right? Whilst the Louvre was "my" museum during my first year in Paris as I had got a membership card, I have chosen the M'O as "my" museum for my second year...
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