Ausies in France

Cringe worthy: try this hilarious test. Using Google Translate I must learn how to say our address so I can ask a local for directions.
Try this in Google translate: 13 Rue de Viezac Argeles-Gazost. Now listen to the French and Aussie. OMG. I hope I don’t get lost.

Roadwork safety: whizz around a corner to find half the road closed by a guy in a man hole cover. Safe as houses because he has two witches hats perched on the edge of the hole. He must assume everyone is going slow enough to avoid him. Also roadside vegetation slashing without the Aussie standard of: stop go people; 300m of warning signs; a long queue of stopped traffic.

Builders angle grinding using squinted eyes for protection.

Old houses with roof lines that come down to waist height that poke into the road. To think that for hundreds of years people would watch were they were going and avoid that obstacle.

Siestas time: shops shut for the mid-day period.

Shared community: houses don’t have 3 wheelie bins each. Folk carry their garbage to common bins in the street, or to the community compost bins scattered around.Read more