Parisiens take All Saints Day seriously - people go to the cemeteries and decorate graves, clean them up, pray, cry, grieve. It's a bit foreign to us Anglo-Saxons. A few days ago in our cultural training session, one of our instructors "insisted" [her word] that France is a Latin country. This was in response to my question that went something like, "Why do they call us Anglo-Saxons? Aren't we basically from the same genetic background?" And that led to a very interesting history lesson about Gauls and Romans and Francs and Norsemen and William the Conqueror and many others. Bottom line: no, the French are different. She insists.
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These are beautiful photos. Art for my Sunday afternoon......it doesn't get any better than this.
hi craig and lora. enjoy your posts!
lora, i was scrolling through some of our old posts and just noticed a comment you made in mid-September, responding to some of my thoughts on being lonely in a foreign place.
mid-september seems like so long ago, so i'm sure you and i are both at different places in the adjustment process, but that sense that we are "aliens in a foreign land" still pops up every once in awhile, and it's always nice to know we have fellow commiserators out there. :)
hope autumn in Paris is being good to you two. take care!
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