Articles populaires – Stranger in Bordeaux

13 juin 2011

Writing on a wall

Much can be said about the country by what its people write/draw on walls:- In America it is often "Jesus" - the symbol of their faith- In Israel people draw the Star of David - the symbol of their nation- In Russia it is a dirty word (usually the three-letter...

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Tags: France, Russia, manger, mur

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2 juillet 2011

Get a haircut!

From now on my advice to my friends traveling to France will be: “Get a haircut!” This especially applies to men – you will see that cutting hair has nothing to do with “efficiency”. Most probably your hairdresser will be a charming young lady with just...

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Tags: bordeaux, girls, cleavage, coiffure

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28 juin 2011

Comprendre trop peu ... trop comprendre

A girl on a motorbike, wearing an orange helmet, comes out of a side street and stops before entering the main boulevard. I am crossing the street behind her back, checking her out with a corner of my eye. Suddenly she turns and asks me something. I helplessly...

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Tags: bordeaux, girl, motorbike

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6 juillet 2011

Quelque chose sur NEMS

Little linguistic discovery – “nems” is the French word for “spring rolls”, the package of which you can see in the picture (sorry for choosing the non-kosher ones, but I am tired of chicken.) The reason why this peculiar word attracted my attention is...

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Tags: Toulouse, nems, squid

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7 juillet 2011

Medical examination

Every foreigner planning to spend extended time in France (i.e. more than the three months allowed to a tourist) has to undergo a medical examination. I felt very apprehensive about it – perhaps due to the tedious and rather invasive medical examinations...

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Tags: France, examination, medical

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10 juillet 2011

Bordeaux curiousities

Kissing French people kiss each other’s in cheeks when they meet. Depending on the region of France the number of kisses can be from one to four – underkissing or overkissing may lead to “l’embarrass social”. In Bordeaux the appropriate number of kisses...

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Tags: Kissing, boys school, ribbon

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16 juillet 2011

Bordeaux and the Bottle

One strikingly negative thing about Bordeaux is drunk people harassing tram passengers. Yesterday was already forth or fifth time when I observed such a scene – a drunk person, barely standing on his feet, enters the tram and starts leaning on nearby...

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Tags: bordeaux, drunk, tram

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3 juillet 2011

Toulouse

Toulouse is just like another big city –like New York or Tel Aviv. It probably has all the attractions of such a city, but also meets you with all its ugliness: a channel with a green water, where you will supposedly want to take a boat trip… the center...

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Tags: Toulouse, boat, channel

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19 juin 2011

Palais de Justice de Bordeaux

According to Wikipedia: The extension of the courthouse was completed in 1998 by the architectural firm of Richard Rogers at the same time as the Papon trial. Its architecture symbolizes the open court, wine tanks or bottles of wine and cones in keeping...

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Tags: bordeaux, Palais de Justice

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17 juin 2011

Sweet Dreams

The pretty Romanian, with whom I “flirted” a few days ago, was dressed differently today. She usually wears casual pants and a T-shirt, reminiscent of sports suit, which make her body look teenage-round – the type of body than was popularized by Britney...

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Tags: girls, dream, feelings, smile, sweet

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18 juin 2011

Biscuits rose de Reims

We had a little celebration yesterday, due to a colleague of having received a permanent position in one of the French Universities. This is the first celebration that I had participated in in France, and however casual and small it was, it allowed me...

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Tags: bordeaux, France, Champagne, Reims, biscuit

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14 juin 2011

Panties

H&M store in Bordeaux. I was standing in line to fitting rooms. The couple who were standing in front of me were a tall fit American girl with strong beautiful legs and her similarly fit boyfriend. Compared to French, whose dress and make-up always underscore...

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Tags: clothes, couple, love, relationship

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21 juin 2011

Bathroom romance

I am not asking you, my dear reader, whether you have ever made love in a bathroom – it is quite possible that you have. I ask whether you have ever made a pass on a girl in a bathroom. (Or whether anyone has made a pass on you?) I am quite fond of the...

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Tags: bordeaux, girls, bathroom, romance

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23 juin 2011

Pourquoi n'as-tu pas m'appellé?

I am waiting on the platform and looking at the people inside the tram, that is about to depart in the other direction. Suddenly, a pretty girl, dressed in a “going out to have fun” outfit separates from her group and starts urgently knocking on the window,...

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Tags: bordeaux, tram, girls, romance

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24 juin 2011

Vous voulez cette place?

- Vous voulez cette place? - Non… - I am unable to hide my astonishment that the girl offered me her seat. All right, she looks like a sweet teenager who was taught to give place to elderly. But even though I am probably twice as old as she is, I definitely...

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Tags: bordeaux, tram, romance, girl

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16 juin 2011

French Paradox

I cannot stop to marvel at the beauty of Bordeaux. All the houses in residential neighborhoods are different, clean and cared for. Each house has a spacious garden with many flowers and trees, which obviously take a lot of work to make them look neat....

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Tags: France, garden, neighborhood, paradox

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25 juin 2011

L'héritière et moi

I looked in the direction of the music and saw a girl in a fancy convertible. She didn’t look like any rich woman that I had seen before: she was too young to be a business lady, who was earning enough money to have such a car. Neither did she have the...

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Tags: bordeaux, girl, car, heiress

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12 juin 2011

Religion

This weekend is a Pentecost holiday (the Christian equivalent of Jewish Shavuot, 50 days after the Passover). What I found surprizng is the contradiction between the fact that the religious holidays are the national days-off, but in the same time most...

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Tags: bordeaux, France, religion, school

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13 juin 2011

Drunk French

Riding along the tram tracks is the mark of Bordeaux bicyclists. Riding on a sidewalk is prohibited (unlike in Israel), whereas riding in the driveway is suicidal (very much like in New York). The tram tracks, on the other hand, are just a part of the...

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Tags: bordeaux, bicycle, drunk, tram

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15 juin 2011

Clumsy Lover

From what I see, French men do conform to the existing opinion that they are skilled seducers – my physics friends are very “smooth” with women, even in the situations with no romantic interest… …unlike me… There are quite a few girls working on the same...

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Tags: French, flirt, girls

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19 juin 2011

Little disappointments: laundry

The Laundry machine in the residence where I live is very small for my usual two-week load. I will have to start washing my clothes more often. What upsets me more, however, is the inefficiency of the drier. The laundry room in my last apartment building...

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Tags: Laverie, residence, seche

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19 juin 2011

Contrasts

Crowded tram on Sunday. A blue-eyed blond girl is playing with a thin pink scarf. She wraps it around her head and puts it over her face, leaving only her eyes – as if she is wearing hijab. Her father, sitting on the opposite seat, waves to her: “can...

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Tags: tram, church, hijab

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22 juin 2011

Fête de la musique

Music festival, that took place yesterday, perhaps deserved mentioning, but due to my weak interest to this kind of things I postponed this till today. (There was time when I loved street parties – but then I was much younger.) According to my friends,...

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Tags: bordeaux, festival, music

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20 juillet 2011

More on Unisex bathrooms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y8P2GKIgkA Here is a short video which desribes my impressions from using the unisex bathroom at my workplace. The video is taken from the Israeli program “ קצרים ” (Ktsarim – shot ones/shorties), which presents short humorous...

Posté par phys_phys à 19:56 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: bordeaux, bathroom

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21 juin 2011

Lust and Darkness

The girl has a dark skin – this is not her natural color, but rather a very uniform tan. She does not look French – more Spanish and she is not in a mood to meet with strangers. Even though she is sitting, it is obvious that she is tall. She wears jean...

Posté par phys_phys à 08:39 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

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