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        <title><![CDATA[Stranger in Bordeaux]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[My life in the land of croissants and stockings]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[More on Unisex bathrooms]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:56:44 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bordeaux and the Bottle]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 12:25:11 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bordeaux curiousities]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:07:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Medical examination]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:16:26 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Quelque chose sur NEMS]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 23:04:20 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Toulouse]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:21:14 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Get a haircut!]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:18:20 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Comprendre trop peu ... trop comprendre ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:42:56 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[L'héritière et moi]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:19:33 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Vous voulez cette place?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:28:47 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[- 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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Pourquoi n'as-tu pas m'appellé?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:50:06 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Fête de la musique]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:48:32 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bathroom romance]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:22:28 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Lust and Darkness]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:39:07 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Huge bookestore]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:48:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Mollat occupies a whole block. It might take one day the place in my heart that up to now has belonged to the Barnes&Noble in the Union Square. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Palais de Justice de Bordeaux]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:47:21 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Contrasts]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:19:19 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Little disappointments: laundry]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 10:22:28 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Biscuits rose de Reims]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:55:55 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Sweet Dreams]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:49:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[French Paradox]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:41:03 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Clumsy Lover]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:38:46 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Panties]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:38:57 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Writing on a wall]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:49:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Drunk French]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:53:23 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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