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Simple, mild, behavior genuinely are one of life's bittie pleasures.

Before we rapt to the Charente, we were warned by various acquaintances that the French have a endowment for man rude, big-headed and not too in good health invested in the conduct department. We have yet to move cross-town everybody who has fulfilled that internal representation and today I was reminded of how not right these prejudices are.

Coming out of a DIY shop in Barbezieux, an old gallic chap (complete beside cap and stripy jersey I'm pleased to add!) took the occurrence to shingle our safekeeping and come up to us near a "bonjour monsieur et dame" beforehand carrying on beside his purchasing.

It struck us that somewhere we have cosmopolitan in the Charente, society do truly lug the instance to say hello to respectively some other. In bars, at the doctor's, in restaurants, we are e'er greeted with a smiling and a "bonjour" or "bon soir", depending on the incident of day.

My brother's friends (all of whom are pubescent boys) make the effort to say how-do-you-do to all of the feminine members of the own flesh and blood beside the conventional kisses on the lineament and the menfolk with a mitt shiver. I can't conjure up any of his English friends doing that. We were happy to get them to look at us.

I complete that neat deportment are an brilliant way of blagging your way into a new culture, and let's obverse it, they're soft to creative person in any expressions...