Posted on: 2 October 2008 |
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Why the French have no time for restaurants, why airline etiquette is necessary on a flight to rein in annoying passengers and keep everyone happy. Read all about them in The Wrap.
Pardon, monsieur, there is no lunch today
Nearly 3,000 restaurants and cafes in France have closed this year as the credit crunch begins to bite. Suddenly the only people with any time for long lunches across the Channel are the English, says John Lichfield in the UK Independent.
All over Paris – all over France – restaurant tables are standing empty, he says.
The takings of French restaurants and cafés have plunged by 20 per cent this year.
Why have the French lost their appetite for lunch?
It’s a national emergency surely. Worse, perhaps, than the meltdown of global financial markets.
Read the full story - Lunch is for Rosbifs: France's restaurants feel the pinch - if you’ve the stomach for it.
Hey, kid, wanna smack?
We’ve all been there before on a flight. We sit in front of the little kid who keeps thumping his legs into your seat.
You always ask yourself, “Why is it me who always gets the brat in the seat behind?”
Do you risk telling mum to control her little sunshine – or suffer in silence?
The Backpacker in Melbourne’s Age newspaper has some tips to help you cope with those aggravating passengers around you.
Spend 24 hours cooped up with a bunch of people you don’t know - anywhere - and something’s going to go awry. Someone's going to get annoyed about something, says the Backpacker.
For some reason, however, you can times that by about 100 when that place is an aeroplane cruising at 30,000 feet.
Read why everyone annoys the Backpacker, including the guy who insists on watching movies all through the night on a long haul flight.
The rules of airline etiquette
