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I noted with interest the table that showed that UK pension expenditure as a % of GDP is below the OECD average and less than half that of France.
Other benfits such as jobseekers also below averge think
That is because the UK has the largest private pension provisions in Europe, the chart is for Government expenditure.
I was aware of that, the point remains that for UK government expenditure, pension spending as a % of GDP is less than half that of France.
And we are supposed to swoon in admiration? Tell that to the Brit retirees who swarm to France (or rather did, until their pension funds crashed under the brilliant management of their pin-striped wonders).
In my view no. However we do have people in the UK who like to argue the financial crisis/budget deficit in the UK is substantially due to excessive public spending on pensions.They would welcome the fact that pension spending in the UK is much lower than in France.
Whatever dude!
Let the French have their pensions and 35 hour weeks. But don't let them reduce the rest of the European 'Common Market' by pulling it down to their level with bureaucratic and legal restrictions, so they can compete. It is not Europe we need to compete with, but rather the rest of the World.
its time to kick France out of the EU. Countries that resist the free market while trying to drag neighbors toward the misery and poverty of Statism don't deserve to be members of the EU.
but don't let them reduce the rest of the European Common Market....
you can have all the hormonal beef , the OGM, the Hollywood Daube... you want, we don't care, but DO not force the French to swallow the same food and vrooom vroom series B
as far as administration, the bureaucratic EU is bred by the 27 countries EU budget contributions
so, don't put that on the French !
Anything that would make us the luckiest and happiest Europeans
poverty isn't a French feature, but a German', a Brit's, a Greek's, a spanish's, a Portugese's
check the stats where the poverty percentages are the highest !
Britain voted for the 'Common Market', not the European UNION (United States of Europe?)
It is the EU that is forcing these things upon us. And it rather seems that it is the French Elite pushing the EU and a social agenda.
Europe is not an island, but needs to export to the World competitivly and without subsidy.
I have to laugh. I like your American-French patriotism. The European Union should be a big Switzerland. The nations are in it as Swiss cantons, with its own financial responsibility (and common funds (mainly for French farmers), not eu-wide taxes, but through negotiations, is more transparent. The euro is a blessing, but only if it is seen as a kind of gold standard, with a built-in annual inflation of 2% ... The European Central Bank, production of the great French rationalism and pragmatism of all the others, must stay away from political influence (exception Paris). In this way, first the Scots, then the Welsh, the Northern Irish, and finally the English will submit to the euro.
"with its own financial responsibility (and common funds (mainly for French farmers)"
one more ignorant rant
the French farmers don't get the most EU funds
besides France is contribuating more than the double that they get,
Britain PAC is fast half of the French PAC, and though for doing 4,5% less production (6% vs 27%), plus the Rebate (paid mostly by France)
Germany gets 2/3 of the French PAC (for 15% to 18% of the agricultural production), and a Rebate on the British Rebate (75%), plus a Rebate on the VAT contribution (2 billions euros)
"The European Central Bank, production of the great French rationalism and pragmatism of all the others"
NO, if you read the origin of the EMU/euro, you would know that that was the Bundesbank model that was adopted
I don't see that the above Britain regions will adopt a questionned euro
The EU union will never be Swizerland, that would mean that there isn't any geopolitical interest anymore, not envisageable by Britain, nor France
I know it. It was unfair of me. My irony about stereotypes about France have failed.
The uk with it state development planning system, pending price control on alchol, state supported finaical sector may be
The 'rant' seems to be yours!
However, France was an original founding signatory to the EU and all that has followed. They are part and whole to the problems. They just need to be humble enough to admit it and be better team players with their EU compatriots then they appear not to be.
no, yours
poor island !
we don't need to admit it when the most of the lot is accusing us of being at the origin of it
when, in reality, it was the Allies idea
The problem with the Allies Brentwood Conference agenda was not that it was wrong, but that it was originally intended as an emergency agenda to 'rebuild' shattered economies, not to 'sustain' those economies once they were rebuilt, unless the constraints on reckless free market economics remained in place, which they did not, as evidenced by the Nixononian free float of the U.S. dollar, Reganomics, Clintonian era de-reglation of the financial industry and Bush era neo-liberal financialization of everything in existence... All of this, to be honest, was the dark and insidious underbelly of Capitalism run amok. Time to move to a middle ground that allows for free markets while at the same time does not allow the plutocrats to suppress 'real' competition which is the lifeblood of all vibrant and stable economies.
'you can have all the hormonal beef , the OGM, the Hollywood Daube... you want, we don't care, but DO not force the French to swallow the same food and vrooom vroom series B' [Cadet Rousselle]
This last blast of dottiness is well up to your usual standard, Major-General Rousselle. Millions of Americans - north and south - consume millions of steaks and meat products seven days of the week... with few detectable ill-effects, save on their waists.
Europeans who bleat 'hormonal beef' tend to be rather unhealthily self-absorbed, narcissistic, and subject to panic attacks. Particularly notewothy is a generalised paranoia with regard to our Friends Across the Atlantic.
On Saturday evening I had a most depressing experience: buying stuff in a French supermarket, SuperU, as it happens. 'Hormonal beef' you scoffed!! We avoided all beef, hormal or not, lamb, chicken, pork, likewise. We settled for a 135 gm packet of charcuterie called 'bacon' for 2.30 euros.
The prices in that SuperU were not far south of double what we are used to pay in the UK. And you go on about 'hormonal beef' - you have to be joking, dear girl.
hmm bizarre,
your dear world of global trades corporations is singing its swan song, the EU is going to become has-been, in 10 years the too big to fail banks will have disappeared...
The British will be British and not a anonym crowd of the global EU identity, the French will be French again,the Germans, Germans....
I have seen your argumentation on the french blog, on the supposed good products that the US have to offer us, your argumentation was deconstructed by some serious contenders, no, you will not make of us your docile supporters of the non-traceable products for food, remember the Horse-meat scandal, with this transatlantic common market, it will be worst, and then try to sue a american Company on their territory...
I have seen your argumentation on the french blog, your argumentation was deconstructed by some serious contenders, no, you will not make of us your docile supporters of the non-traceable products for food, remember the cheval scandal, with this trans-atlantic common market, it will be worst, and then try to sue a american Company on their territory...
what you found in the supermarket, most likely was meat from Britain, Eastern Republics... as you certainly know that these businesses have a tiny margin, so they buy where it's cheap !
Scuse-me but the prices in your country, when I went there (some couple of years back) were about 20% to 30% more expensive than in France, except for the clothes
(I had to post my response in 3 posts, otherwise it ended in the filter box)
"The prices in that SuperU were not far south of double what we are used to pay in the UK"
Curious that when I go to the UK, I have the same type of experience (but in reverse).
The prices that I find for meat are far higher than those that I enjoy here in France.
But to be fair, I have to admit that fresh milk is considerably cheaper in the UK than in France.
I suggest you to watch Hervé Juvin videos,
"L'Eloge de la Frontière"
"D'une crise à l'autre, vers un nouveau monde?"
Admit it, Cadet, you are monsieur Montebourg, minister for Productive Recovery for the semi-permanently-ailing French uneconomical economy.
Weren't the 'Free' French one of the Allies?
Montebourg often doen't tell "aneries", but basic objective truths
Anyways, he knows how to get effective arguments, like advertising slogans, today he is telling that Barroso is the carburetor for the FN and all the european Grillos
doch, but a 2nd rank allie in Roosevelt and Churchill minds
I'd start rather with Greece and Cyprus. They shouldn't have been allowed in in the first place.
Meanwhile the tourist with sense will avoid silly French supermarket prices. You handle the geo-political issues; I'm closer to the REAL France.
I think it would be great if France reduced its work week to 30-hours per week (or even less) and reduced the retirement age to, say, 45 years of age (or less). They would then become completely irrelevant as an economic competitor.
you might, but it's not what we see for the others, and still our prices are lower than in Britain
and you need a mental help
No country works harder at being lazy than France. The French spend their days contemplating the social horrors unleashed by accomplishment. They riot and protest to prevent the social unrest caused by working.
If the French put half as much energy into working as they put into protesting and complaining, France would be one of the most respected nations on earth. As it stands right now, France is known as the best place to travel when you get to old for Disneyland. Naturally, Disney put a theme park in Paris to avoid losing revenue.
yeah, that's why we still are in the top 5 by GDP rank
you can't understand that France is a successful country without imitating your serfdom to the financers !
Yeah, France should become corporate whores like the rest of the world, spreading their legs for the scraps left by an incompetent aristocracy that caused the financial collapse to begin with.
Ironic that Adam Smith said that laziness was good. No country works harder at being stupid than America.
I guess they cannot colonialize and seize other countries anymore. Poor dearies! So sad. Get of your butt and work!
Whoa there! France is a 'corporate whore' evidenced by its high 'direct' subsidy of privately owned corporations. In America we call that 'corporate welfare,' and there are many ways the whorish corporate welfare schemes are done. In America's case it may not be done via 'direct' subsidies, but is typically done via special tax exemptions and non-bid government contracts..., Please do not forget the trite but true saying, "A rose by any other name is a rose all the same." or in this case, "A whoring subsidy by any other name is a whoring subsidy all the same."
GDP is a false indicator of productivity because many countries, including France, now include non-product based 'services' in GDP numbers which skews the 'actual' productivity for value-oriented physical goods, which are the 'real' indicator of productivity 'value.'
As for a country being serfs to the financers, are you saying that France is not in hock to the private banks, hedge funds, and the Euro central bank? If so, you need to leave this discussion and go back and get your own facts of that reality correct.
If GDP is a false indicator lets look at the poverty rate and the income gap
what you wil say a false indicators too
'Yeah, France should become corporate whores like the rest of the world, spreading their legs for the scraps left by an incompetent aristocracy that caused the financial collapse to begin with.'[Cadet]
France has BECOME a corporate whore... thank God. She acts the defenceless virgin but is as ruthless a corporate predator as any Yanks.
your obsession is telling, I didn't write this post
funny how some interpret given facts at their own sauce !
and sorry, but France is not a county that priviledges hedge funds
our private banks have enough latitude to finance our enterprises at affordable credits,
the BCE doesn't for good reasons, it also is the Bundesbank bis, a central bank for the DM/euro
the peripherical debt is emphasized by the rigidness of the ECB, that's where the indebted countries also have become serfs at paying their debt loans
Hmmm... As I understand it, France was part and whole of the sovereign debt crisis, and yes! France did participate in the mortgage hedge fund frauds, via the sovereign loan debacle no less.
Pleeeaaaasssseee.... don't portray France as being above the whole fracas. They are part of the part of the EU, the eurozone and are a member nation in the ECB. The problem is simply French economic sovereignty is at odds with EU/ECB economics, and while France can sit back and whine with their glasses of wine, they are quick to participate and take credit when it goes good and just as quick to moan and groan and blame everyone else for something they were an active participant in.
Fact is, the eurozone has only been able to stay afloat because of Germany, and that pisses off the other EU member nations, especially France!
If France wants to be the high ground of the EU then make the hard decisions to get its debt crisis resolved and reduced and start putting in place an economic policy that is more in line with becoming a 'creditor' nation instead of the 'debtor' nation is has become, and then, and only then, can they complain and point fingers with credibility.
I bear the same feelings towards my own American nation, so I'm not playing sides here. I'm only playing fair and rational.
Simple economics and 'real' math show that one cannot spend more than they make to the point of running a reserve-to-debt ratio so far out of balance it's like putting a kitten (reserves) on one side of a teeter totter and a one ton boulder on the other side and expecting things to balance out, when such will never be the case no matter how fancy or convoluted the funny math used to make otherwise is.
"nd yes! France did participate in the mortgage hedge fund frauds, via the sovereign loan debacle no less."
gimme a serious source ?
if you had a look at BIS quarly reports, you would see that French banks were more leverages in private sectors than in Sovereign debts, tue for Greece, for Spain, for Italy
The housing bubbles, libor, and last another derivatives scandal is coming out, weren't french banks investments, but German banks, Dutch banks, to a lesser point Brit banks,
ask the Italians whatwe bought in Italy, they are furious that French banks own their traditional business, Electricity distribution in UK, Manufactures in Spain, big hypermarkets... banks in Greece
if we weren't tied with the EZ, and if we still had our own BoF able to print, our Debt would be 17%
....I guess by "France" you mean Italy. But strongly agree with your comment.
like DieselBoom lecturing the Cypriots, you have the most clever people in Dutchs land, but isn't your debt spectacularly increasing these days? you know bad banks, bad bets, bad housing bubble.... It seems that your lazy aging rentiers wanted a too quick jackpot
Gangs of near imbecile calling The ideology of France ,socialism, is near pure idioty.
The party socialiste de France is only socialist in name.
Like to call the Democratic people republic of China a true democracy or calling china a true communism state wich is not true.
Hollande party have the quasi same policy has Sarkozy he is in direct line with Merkel and will reform the pension and cut. In fact not socialist but deeply in the center.
France do a wave of liberalisation in the 90 , Hollande is deeply Pro Free Trade and even promote Growth as an Alternative than austerity. Wich what The Economist want.
Although UK calling us Lazy when they GDP is bellow us is realy laughing I dont care of your work time Everybody Knows that the GDP is the prime factor and for us he 's still quite good better than UK.
And not forgot that Strauss Khan was a member of the party. If Hollande change the name of the party to ,Liberale, it will be the same as the New Labour in England.
Market give us good signals. In I deeply agree with the comment of one of my compatriote below
France will bounce:) I can bet 5000 dollars that will happen in less than a decade.
French socialism is in fact fascism in disguise!
That's the problem.
France may well bounce if its population are prepared to work for their rewards & resist against letting it become a parasitic plutocracy like Britain
Sadly, America is headed the British direction, as Britain typically precedes us on this side of the pond by two to three decades, and it appears America may be well on track mimicking Britain...
Anytime there is 'corporate welfare' and a MIC (military-industrial complex) that is in bed with government as exclusionary of small business interests and the workers, that can safely be deemed to be a 'fascist' system...
"France will bounce:) I can bet 5000 dollars that will happen in less than a decade."
That is if France's sovereign debt is cleared down low enough to get there in that time, and to be perfectly honest, if the Eurozone collapses thus allowing France greater autonomy and sovereignty over this issue.
Fact is, unless the Eurozone and the Euro move towards a true 'federal' system, instead of the 'confederated' system now in place, it cannot long survive the continual loss of viability that a confederated approach typically results in, as compared to the intrinsic strength a federal system brings to a currency and economy. This is of course a very historically verified premise I'm offering here.
This article's title of "Must We Work Harder?" is very apropos. French workers have moved their work place to such a far left progressive socialist agenda that they, by their silly laws, are allowed the longest paid vacation days, most liberal for paid sick leave days, shortest 'full time' work week hours and most expanded health care policy of all European nations, and so yes! French workers really need to get a grasp on the reality of their 'taker' system imploding and work more hours with no increased 'benefits' to pull themselves out of the worker/economic quagmire that overly progressive liberal workplace policies always eventually result in. In other words, if a society is going to insist on extremist socio/politico/economic policies, they have have deal with the cause-&-effects of the pendulum pushing back the other direction, or risk serious unintended consequences to the system. Fact is, you can't look to a socialist president to solve socialist caused problems any more than would be the case for a conservative president solving conservative caused problems. That's like having the fox guard the henhouse. ...
"French workers have moved their work place to such a far left progressive socialist agenda that they, by their silly laws, are allowed the longest paid vacation days, most liberal for paid sick leave days, shortest 'full time' work "
one more ill fart from a British !
"the French working hour is the most productive
35H/week is better than your part-time unsecure jobs
it's not 6 weeks, it's 5, and besides German and austrian workers get more"
who need to work more hours, when there are no more clients to absorb our production, only if their prices are dumped, like asiatic wages still can make it ?
the radical lefties didn't pass 2% in the last election, what is socialism today could be labelled "liberal", "SPD", "Dems"..., it's mostly center-left leaning
Conservative like in the US, the Chritian american bigots? no thank you, we have seen lately of what they are aiming to, like Wilson, they wanted to reduce our labour force to the Bengladesh level !
"You can't look to a socialist president to solve socialist caused problems any more than would be the case for a conservative president solving conservative caused problems"
- Its actually the exact opposite.
It is precisely a leader whose party is known for being hawkish with respect to national security who has the "street cred" to actually be taken seriously by his nation's international adversaries because his security credentials are well proven.
Likewise it is precisely a leader whose party is known for increasing public spending that has the street cred to actually propose spending cuts since the bonafides of his party with respect to the working class are accepted.
Ever wonder why it took a Reagan to negotiate successfully with the Soviets or why it took a Bill Clinton to reform welfare?
Because you negotiate or implement from a position of strength, not the other way round. You first come in with the strength/credibility such that your motives will not be questioned... it will not be asked "Is he too yellow or too unfeeling?" (for national security and welfare reform respectively)
Now as far as the palatability of performing such a role, yes a Socialist would squirm a hundred times more than a right-winger.
But if even the Socialists cannot reform France's welfare system, then only the laws of economics and mathematics will do a teachers. It will be a very costly and painful lesson and the French will learn that try as they might, they will not be able to "vote out" or "protest out" those harsh masters.
I always thought it was the Republican-controlled Congress that pushed Bill Clinton to reform welfare.
As for Reagan...for the analogy to be correct, you would have to argue that he and/or other conservatives "caused" the Cold War.
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of socialists is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, colour, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export.... Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains an attractive idea -- in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders.
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
In fact much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Yeah much of the classic liberal era and the neoliberal period was more good and succeful.
Is it what your are trying to say?
Yeah of course before 1929 life was so good, people all over the world were smiling.
After the 80 until today post socialist and liberal country are doing well.
No unemployement, no anger from african country and the East, no far right and protectionism movement who are seducing electorate now, no gap of income. Of course the Growth of south Korea and Singapore have nothing to do with some of socialist policies.
Right, Yeah all of that thanks to socialism.
Learn me how to dance because I'm a monkey.(Sarcasm)
French socialism is in fact fascism in disguise!
"The first lesson of socialists is to disregard the first lesson of economics."
Also of right-wingers, too. Many a conservative politician ignores the concept of scarcity, especially when it comes to things like land/property, alternative energy, and fuel.
A wonderful post..rest assured the clarity and elegance in this post will go over the head of the dimwitted French posters.
You have a lot of up-votes, which is disconcerting. If you replace the term "socialism" with "pure capitalism" in your post, it would be equally compelling. The truth is that a modern, democratic, first-world nation needs ideas that are both "capitalist" and "socialist".
The government does not have any money, the only money it takes is from tax, or at worst by printing money, tax without representation. Society as a whole would be far better if the governments take was 10% (or as low as possible), and the rest left to private charitable giving, as it used to be. Society as a whole would be better off, with no coercion, and of course with less tax to take from the private sector = more jobs and growth. Hence why up until the reign of the awful leadership of Clinton, Bush and tyranny of Obama, three successive leaders have demolished what should have been the example to the world.
Because we aren't a bunch of heartless greedy cowards, which is what pure capitalism would demand of us.
No one is advocating pure capitalism. The point of the article is that France has taken socialism too far and can no longer afford it.
The first lesson of scarcity due to overpopulation was right c.f. Thomas Malthus.
The second lesson is that the first lesson has turned out wrong for developed countries.
True: Socialism does not work in under developed countries but look at any rich family and you will see a very happy socialism. Same with developed countries managed by smart people with modern communication. WWII economic theory is inapposite in modern developed countries.
It's sad that The Economist can't produce a sensible comparison of different country's public social spending, rather than a comparison of apples with pears.
On health, for example, the USA spends around twice as much as the UK, as a proportion of GDP, but most of that is in the private sector: add that in to the comparison, and the US's expenditure is much the same as the other countries.
It's also sad to note that British public expenditure on pensions is the lowest...
The destiny of France is the Middle Income Trap. De gaulle's fascist policies are deeply engraved in French society. The end of fascism is the middle income trap. We saw this fascist trap from Argentina, Spain and South Korea. France will have the same fate of the fascism.
I think you should re-check your dictionary for a definition of fascism
French socialism is in fact fascism in disguise!
that may also be apples and pair. although overrall around correct lines. But things like pension do not include other benefits, the gap between private and social housing also which also be subzidy. The pension proection fund which also private collected tax and spend so no in figures, also public sector pensions not included in spend which include all sorts from ships making to car to postal workers, to private buiness such as doctors and dentists, etc.
In response to your comment below where you stated: "The comments make me laugh even if I'm french and I should not laugh"
Were you by chance referring to my previous comment? Because if you were, then laughing was the right thing to do. I'm America but I love France, I love Paris, and I love the French country side. I'm even somewhat fond of you French people. I have been to your country many times and I'm sure I will visit your country again in the future. I hope you didn't take my French Joke (previous below)the wrong way.
Still friends (America & France) !!
"I'm America but I love France, I love Paris, and I love the French country side"
unfortunately, that's the first argument that always comes the first, France, sure but without the French is often added
The comments make me laugh even if I'm french and I should not laugh,
some south american given us advice on that blog plus nearly xenophobic people.
History never lie, No... france is not doomed, not in the same situation as Greece, interest are stil good, investors still love us, our Banking sector is one of the most powerful,the salon of Bourget will give us some new breath. The only thing we need is some litle reform. We are not nearly catastrophe we just have a phase like each country like Germany in the 90 or UK in the 80.
Xenophobic comments are just free and I'm happy for my country.
But you know what make me laugh a little bit.... France is just a bounce back nation. When you think she's near total collapse she bounce back like a pro. Same example with the chaos of Revolution, Napoleonic wars, WW1 when she stop the Schlieffen plan, after WWII when she manage to took some piece on the cake.
I realy like the Foreign minister Talleyrand quote:
" Despite all our sin and misfortune France will still manage to have a seat in the Great powers table when they think we are on our knee "
History never lie and I'm pretty optimist.
You are correct. France is still one of the great countries on this planet. It has a unique culture, people and history. The problem is that the French people don't want to work any more. You want to work 35 hour weeks, take 6 weeks of vacation and retire at 60. The only way to make this work is to tax everything. If you notice wealthy people do not like to be overburdened with taxes. They will leave your country. France will slowly grow poorer, the economy will get smaller and your influence will wane. This is not my opinion. This is fact. Countries whose populace work hard, save money and invest money in infrastructure do well. Can France say this?
"The comments make me laugh even if I'm french and I should not laugh,"
Hmmm... you don't seem to realize how wicked and viciously anti-French people there are here on The Economist and its Internet forum. They hate Marianne, they just hate her. Envy.
Some of them could interpret your words as "I am French and I should not laugh"... 'because I lack a sense of humour'.
Don't give 'em that opportunity.
But... "Xenophobic"? Why share this privilege with other people? It should be Francophobic (nothing to do with Generalissimo Franco, of course).
The problem is that in the real world, countries which work hard, save money and invest money will be hated by countries whose people are lazy (most countries in the world).
"The problem is that the French people don't want to work any more."
oh that's a ill informed Brit
the French working hour is the most productive
35H/week is better than your part-time unsecure jobs
it's not 6 weeks, it's 5, and besides German and austrian workers get more
Welathy people know where to put their saving in your croony Caiman islands
nobody is leaving, except some fools like Depardieu, but they would leave with any sort of government from whatever country
France economy is still above UK's, and don't believe that the French influence will vanish so soon, half of Africa speak french, and it is the continent that will have the biggest growth rate in the next decades
didn't see that you could save money, that wasn't lost with your banks loans, the housing bubble in UK ruined many people, while France people own their home
France will probably bounce back, but the French need to get serious about reform or that bounce will come much later than necessary.
I do not understand at all your pov:)
Let the French do as they like!
It is not a problem for the rest of Europe.
I love the climate in the South and the people are usually friendly and almost easy going ( but only if you speak French :) Anyway they are friendly and I love the wine from the Rhone and from time to time I even find a French restaurant where I get reasonable food at reasonable prices.
And let them believe what they like.
Through a few good glasses of red wine anything in France looks nice:)
And there are indeed very few like MarieClaude who has been banned so often here and who is attacking the rest of the world:)
The French you only can take the very easy way. Let them talk, let them celebrate themselves as they will do on July 14th and then they are really happy:)
I am more a guest in France although I even still have my French passport which I never needed.
Nobody can change the French and I think there is no need changing them.
Take them just as they are:)
"...wealthy people do not like to be overburdened with taxes"
so what!?, everyday people should stop their fascination with the "rich and beautiful"
but the French you know, they don't read the Economist commenters, they would get ruder than me, knowing the kind of French you're meeting, former Legionnaires !
if you want to get a idea of what they think of the EU, and its anglo-Saxon globalisation reverrence, just try to read some french military blogs
"Same example with the chaos of Revolution, Napoleonic wars, WW1 when she stop the Schlieffen plan, after WWII when she manage to took some piece on the cake"
How prosperous! There have just passed 68 years! Is there any French breakthrough… in anything… besides civil riots? Mmmm… yes! Winning the 1998 World Cup! Congrats!
Just because you are ignorant does not mean that you need to show, your idiocy. Your make me laugh love sport, francophobic and near idiot. Your are the typical stereotype of an ignorant.
In 2005 (France do the first Face transplant)
In 1985 the smart card
Luc montagnie who direct a laboratory discover The virus of HIV
The list could , even I can add Airbus... ect
Typical French argument relying on its past glories. Your poor English grammar clearly demonstrates your ignorance of what is happening beyond French borders. The world has much changed since the 60s and France is bound to progressively reduce its prominence on the world stage. France has a future but it is not to be found in its past.
"France has a future but it is not to be found in its past"
you're wrong, people need to know their past for advancing, for being creative, a man without past is a zombie
"Typical French argument relying on its past glories. Your poor English grammar clearly demonstrates your ignorance"
I didnt even understand why you do that ad hominem
In my coments I even agree that we should do reform, and was trying to show to francophobic that we can manage to get out of our mess, that was not the first time we were in difficulty.
"France is bound to progressively reduce its prominence on the world stage."
Nobody knows what will happen in the future
Attacking me was an ignorant move
France post-war artificial grandeur has been the product of the Atlantic axis to contain the Soviet and German potencies. The undergoing process of European integration under Germany's governance will ultimately displace the centre of power to the East at the expense of the French acquis. The French elite are well aware of this historic regional shift and it is in that context that Hollande's legacy must be understood.
What is the main difference between Europe and America?
I think France does not need lessons from anyone outside of their nation.
It is only up to the French themselves how they are tackling their economy and their society.
The Economy as well as all the questions of society are nothing but interior affairs of France and never anything that is happening in France can be a business of foreign countries.
The French are intelligent enough and powerful enough as a super-power to solve their own interior problems by themselves.
They do not need any help and I think they do not expect advice nor help.
Mr. Hollande and his party have been elected in a democratic process by the French voter and so I am rather glad that especially in German politics you won't even hear a single remark about French affairs and politics because it is not a German business.
Let the French try their own way as they were voting for and perhaps they will be better off in a few years as the rest of Europe.
May be they will fail but that will be then also only an interior problem of France and not at all a business of the rest of Europe.
Just let the French have their will:)
The problem is, if they fail, they will say, it was Brussels or the German euro, and so on.
If they fail and what they say then- will be not a problem, nor a business of the rest of the world.
I do not mind very much what people in other countries are saying about Germany.
Germans know the opinions and so it would be nothing new at all.
Of course they will put the blame on Germany.
But I think Germany should meanwhile be used being blamed for anything that is going wrong in a foreign country:)
the problem is rather that too many people think that they know better than uw what to do
not Germany, but Merkel's stalmating
anyways, if she means breaking the EZ, it's all good for us
I like your attitude. I think Europe would have been better off to let the Greeks and others fail as well.
Well, you have Mr. Hulot or Mr. Hollande and you had Mitterand.
Germany had to support Mr. Kohl and Mrs.Merkel.
So where is the problem?
Italy has chosen for many years the Bunga-Bunga:)
If Merkel is breaking the EZ - I am with her without any doubt.
Lets see what the German voter will decide in September:)
"The Economy as well as all the questions of society are nothing but interior affairs of France and never anything that is happening in France can be a business of foreign countries"... totally correct, if and only if you live in a hole, or in a cave, "extracted" from the rest of the world. Welcome to the modern economy, where everything is connected.
Ah, such a libertarian point of view: give them freedom to make their own decisions, and let them live with the consequences.
Unfortunately, it doesn't always work that way. France wants the freedom to make her own decisions (welfare state) but then wants Germany and others to pick up the tab (joint Eurobonds).
You can't have it both ways, folks.
Last year a French man (a French Socialist) crash landed on a desert island. A week later he was rescued. They found him hungry and thirsty. Apparently, the island had plenty of food sources and drinking water, but instead of doing the hard work of collecting this food....the French Socialist had spent the whole week engaged in protest....demand his "right" to good food and clean drinking water.
If it had been Gwitty who had crashed they would have found him dead, face down on the keyboard and the computer screen showing over 700 comments on the economist complaining that no one is sending him food or water to the island.
Hollande and the French seem to think all France's economic problems can be cured by a magicans magic wand? Retire early with a cast iron pension, who makes up the short fall? who cares? Its fantasy economics which everyone understands is deeply flawed, apart from the French?
Welcome to the People's Socialist Republic of France.
The French state originates 55% of GDP. According to a recent poll 75% of the French wish to be public employees.
So much money has been wasted by governments and entitlements that the creative and the wealthy are leaving the country in numbers. Their politicians never read the Goose that laid the Golden Eggs. But now the ending is different. The goose does not get slaughtered, she flies away.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery, Winston Churchill.
Mr. Hollande commissioned one more report uselessly spending scarce money.
As a start:
1) introduce labor flexibility instead of protecting the ones who are "in" (have a job) versus the unemployed
2) stop bashing entrepreneurs and introduce a work ethic
3) decrease state generated GDP from 54% to 40%, i.e. privatize a large part of the existing public sector
4) decrease entitlements and unemployment benefit
"According to a recent poll 75% of the French wish to be public employees"
show us it? I bet that it is more than a decade old !
the wealthy aren't leaving, only the kind of idiots like Depardieu (actually he is now demanding tha algerian passport too), because the wealthy had their bank account in taxe havens since a while, so no matter where they live
and you still have the ideas on socialism that are dating from the cold war, ever heard that we are living in a post cold war order, that emerging Brics change the rules, that the muslim world is taking the urgency defense worries...
spare us your old prism of undertanding society
don't get mad if you are wrong about your vanishing country...
don't get mad if you are wrong about your vanishing country...
Well Churchill would say that after being bounced out of office & seeing post war socialist Britain evolve.
let me end your sentence:
... evolve into misery until Margaret Thatcher saved it from oblivion (not such a chance for France)
What France needs is a French Thatcher to whip it into shape.
Of course that would never happen.
Thatcher? OMG, she ruined Britain Industry while opting for Finance services
and today your banks need 30 billions to refinance them, of course you will pay
Britain is ruined? It seems to be doing quite well relative to every other country in Europe, with the exception of Germany.
Yeah of course, she will not have 2 referendum in less than a decade
Quite good this is why you have one the fastest growing Far right movement in Europe.
Of course David Cameron coalition will survive in the next election.
Of course your banks they can survive at any crisis.
Not really hard to change, but the political will must be there. 1) reduction of the public sector by hiring freeze. Vacancies are not replaced. 2) Increasing of the retirement age for women and men at 65 years. Women with children get credited pension times. 3) Unemployment insurance only for 1 year. After 1 year Hartz IV as in Germany. 4) Abolition of the presidential system. Strengthening of the political responsibility of the regions... In 5 years, France is the promised land of Europe.
except that that reduction of the public sector has already started since a decade, and that during the one year of Hollande's mandate, more civil servants weren't replaced than during Sarkozy's
retirement for women that had children isn't taken into account, or it is above 3 children
HartzIV didn't create jobs opportunities, but maintained workers into social check dependance, besides, these workers have no chance to access to a more benefitful and skillful profession, once you entered into this system it's for life !
sorry, but the US also have a presidential system, hey, we are the countries that haven't a "queen" as a moral representation of our nations
Regions autonomy is on the way, but the problem still is the double and the triple buros that are making the same work, also regionalisation means that power will be concentated into local baron's hands, and will accelerate the countryside desert.
and merging of small municipalities, and getting rid of the "departements" and the local bureaucrats with 17% on sick leave, etc,
will not happen. the French are stuck and wont take a criticism
you don't know nothing of what the French need, and certainly they do not need your ill advices
my advice is to bulldoze all the museums and historical sites and, in place, let us Americans build Walmarts and Starbucks.
Roubini sees euro zone breakup as the number one global tail risk. What will happen to France if Euro zone breaks up?
Forget Roubini. He was right once and wrong since.
I see a lot of complaining (in the article and in the comments) and no proposals for what he should actually do.
I guess people just like a scapegoat.
If I knew Monsieur le Président is reading these comments and had any hope that he'd heed the advise... believe me, I'd know what to propose him.
It's simple really: become more capitalist.
"It's simple really: become more capitalist."
corrected: It's simple really: become capitalist.
Work harder will create more unemployment!
Stupid fwrench.
No mention for example that France has the most productive workers in Europe.
Substitution of capital for labour over decades to avoid hiring labour in France would explain a good deal of the high productivity of French workers. That's good I think if you like high productivity, whizzo machines and infrastructure for everyone! But what is happening now, and tomorrow? For example I read this week that the UK is forecast to make more cars than France by 2017. These trends are not susceptible to French intellectualising I fear and markets will not go at a pace chosen by France!
Are there buyers for those cars still not made, either in France or in England? I vaguely recall an article here in TE about European car makers having hordes of unsold vehicles...
The article you refer to explained how French car sales are falling whilst UK car sales, exports and domestic, are rising. Memory's a funny old thing thinks this aging swivel eyed little Englander. Still, coming next we have a US/EU free trade agreement. The best cars will be sold I am sure.
Thanks for reminding me... yeah, memory is a funny thing - and its vagueness, among other amazing features, is very convenient in certain circumstances.
forecasted doesn't mean that that will happen, because in 4 years the world markets will have changed, they move each weeks nowadays and the cars markets is already saturated !
BTW, which carsmakers infrastructure are British owned nowadays?
Nissan is Renault owned
Renault delocated in UK, Romania, Czech Republic, Russia, Turkey, Marocco, Algeria, Brazil Argentina, and a manufacture is going to open in China
Peugeot already has a manufacture in China
As long that a expensiv euro will be our currency, we will not see jobs creation in France for such a industry
The difference with our plane industry, is that planes are priced and financed in dollars
A new OECD report on the French economy (www.oecd.org/newsroom/france-must-do-more-to-boost-competitiveness-and-c...) pointed out that the country was "one of the weakest in the OECD in terms of per capita growth over the past 20 years", with the second highest level of public spending among the organisation's members and public debt set to hit 96% of GDP in 2014. France's huge public sector (55% of GDP) in so called free market economy is a heavy drag on its economy.
again, show us this OCDE report,
it certainly didn't say that France was one the weakest
but I wouldn't bet on your own economy, made of thin air money
Maybe in part because the minimum wage is so high (around 60% of the median wage) it rules out the least productive workers.
People think it is important what nationality the parent company is yet, as you detail, any company will conduct its activities where it is most profitable to do so, even Renault! Renault's international operations are in fact the bits that keep loss making French plants open!
Of course what really matters is where company's conduct their business, not who owns the company. In the place where they do business they employ people, buy supplies and pay taxes (we hope!)
As for planes, "our" must presumably include the UK where the ancillary parts like engines and wings are made I suppose and not perhaps so much the heart of the operation where the fuselage and seats are made and the whole thing bolted together?
this sort of undetermined capitals and shareholders will disappear in the next years, de-globalisation has started
I think you are correct in a very narrow sense, that being just in France. The rest of the world is still globalising fast. That's people for you, they will connect you see, whatever the intellectual argument not to do so! How for example will you de-globalise the internet? Who is listening to France?
I'm really sorry that TE always has to adopt such a malicious tone when writing about France. France has a very interesting model and should be treated with the same respect accorded to Germany. Diversity is interesting and I would like to see more pieces on France.
I'm sorry, but saying France should be treated with the same respect as Germany is a joke. The general mindset is simply different. Have you ever wondered what France is going to look like in the next 20 years with all those muslisms and welfarism? The Germans have: a third world country full of kebab.
what you don't know about Germany, is that 22% of its working class is on poverty hedge, and that the handful of the German Elite was getting richer during the last decade, which it wasn't able to make it before
The Muslims in France work when it's possble for them to get a job, I host several of them that are technicians in civil nuclear sites maintenance, and they are nice people, more respectful than some French
Will there even be any Germans left in 20 years? They'll be extinct like the Dinosaur.
Just joking but seriously, France can turn itself around. Its like the USA, its problems don't stem from money but political willpower. The issue is that its always hard to motivate any government to do something hard and that might be damaging politically than it is to throw money at something and pray that issue resolves itself.
". The issue is that its always hard to motivate any government to do something hard "
no, just that none wants to imitate Germany (or can) Germany has this docile minset, not really good at making primordial discoveries that would enter into our collective memory, for that you need independant and rebel minds
I own a business in Germany and one in France. For most services I pay 15-20% more in France than what I pay in Germany. My French business (SARL) is 40% more costly to run than my German (GmbH). I love this country but even the simplest things are so bureaucratic and difficult to get done. French technology, especially in the dot-com sector is simply backward and only looking to the Francophone market for revenue. It's a great country for holidays, food and wine but if you want productivity then better look elsewhere.
"they are nice people, more respectful than some French"
Careful, now!!
It is in fact possible to be both French and Muslim, at the same time.
"what France is going to look like in the next 20 years with all those muslims "
Have you ever been to Germany? According to Wikipedia, some 4.9% of the population is Muslim. Granted, that's a lower fraction than in France, often said to be about 8%, but not dramatically different.
don't say that, Germany burocraty is one of the most labyrinthal's
of course, in your french business you are forced to pay a minimum wage, which is about €11 per hour, while in Germany you can pay easily 40% less, from €8,50 to the €1 euro jobs !
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Are we at last beginning to see Africa in African terms, without the distorting mirrors of western history and assumptions? For half a century, the west has continued to measure the failures and problems of African countries by its own standards, awarding marks for economic growth, parliamentary democracy or life expectancy.
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The Shadow of the Sun does not attempt to provide judgements or assessments of Africa's prospects: it is a collection of reports from over the past 40 years, from opposite parts of the continent, with no consistent theme. "This continent is too large to describe," he explains. "It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet . . ."
Superbly translated by Klara Glowczewska, the book often reads more like a novel or a collection of short stories, written with a bright eye for human eccentricities, and with sweeping statements that sometimes sound fictional. But for people who have travelled through Africa, it offers a much more convincing picture of the continent than do the more prosaic assessments of growth rates, structural adjustment or infant mortality. It shows life through African eyes, and it begins to explain the nature of the resilience that provides the real hope for Africa.
As a Pole, Kapuscinski looks at the colonial legacy from the outside, without any sense of guilt or responsibility for the imperial past. He is fierce about western blunders. Much of the ruthlessness of Africans in their power struggles he ascribes to the legacy of the white colonial elite that they superseded: "All at once, in the blink of an eye, a new ruling class arises - a bureaucratic bourgeoisie that creates nothing, produces nothing, but merely governs the society and reaps the benefits."
He rightly blames the imperial powers for creating illogical new frontiers, which reunified Africa rather than partitioned it, creating unviable new nations. "Colonialism was a brutal unification, brought about by fire and sword. Ten thousand entities were reduced to 50." And he condemns Britain for creating the Sudan out of two hostile populations, in order to divide and rule it, thus giving rise to "the longest and largest war in the history of Africa".
He is equally severe about both sides in the cold war, which ignored the real problems and interests of their client countries, and left behind their arsenals, thereby encouraging civil wars. They saw Africa mainly in terms of their own agents and expatriates: "Whenever I returned from Africa, I was asked not 'How are the Tanzanians?' but rather 'How are the Russians in Tanzania?'."
However, Kapuscinski's main concern is with the societies that Africans have built up by themselves, independently of western influence. In one amazing chapter, "My Alleyway", written 30 years ago, he describes how he lived among Nigerians in a slum alley in Lagos, where the streets were formed by bits of corrugated iron, plastic or cardboard, and where thefts were part of everyday life. "These neighbourhoods, these monstrous African papier-mache creations, are made up of everything and anything, and it is they, and not Manhattan or the Parisian La Defense, that represent the highest achievement of human imagination, ingenuity and fantasy."
Kapuscinski has his own, Polish perspective, and brings some of his anti-western intellectual baggage from Warsaw: it has been suggested that some of his descriptions of African autocracies were really veiled attacks on communist dictators at home.
And sometimes his accounts of weird African places and people go over the top, into semi-fiction. His most celebrated earlier book, The Emperor - which was adapted as a play, performed in London - brilliantly portrays the court of Haile Selassie, the tiny autocrat of Ethiopia, before he was deposed, with sharp and humorous dialogue conveying the extravagant flatteries and intrigues surrounding the emperor. Kapuscinski's picture doesn't quite do justice to Selassie's shrewd diplomacy during the cold war, to his relations with the new black republics, or to the real pathos of his predicament: trying to reform his corrupt administration while unable to escape from the surroundings that had isolated him.
But most of his surrealist and improbable descriptions of Africa have the ring of truth. Having witnessed a few of the same events and encountered some of the same people over the past 40 years (though I have never met Kapuscinski), I was struck by how well he recaptured them: for example, Kofi Baako, the first minister of education in independent Ghana in 1957 (with whom the book opens), and his exuberant and boyish enjoyment of face-to-face power; or John Okello, the wild 25-year-old, self-appointed field marshal who took over Zanzibar in 1964, with his simple and crude concept of the power of the gun: "He throws an old rifle over his shoulder and grabs another in his hand. With his first hand he first adjusts the pistol stuck in his belt, then picks up another one . . ."
Kapuscinski's accounts of the most gruesome events - such as the dictatorship of Idi Amin in Uganda, the genocide in Rwanda and the disintegration of Liberia - are all the more convincing because they are written in a plain style, without the heightened language favoured by TV commentators when describing catastrophes. And he maintains the warm sympathy of someone who is fascinated by Africans, and who goes back to the continent again and again: not to relish the latest atrocity, or to put across a political message, but to record the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit, and how life goes on.
Anthony Sampson's Mandela: the authorised biography is published by HarperCollins (£9.99)


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Well I made my own version of the POTC ride, and the video will be viewable by the end of the week, it has no audio though since Disney owns the copyrights to the music.
The story for my ride is obviously very similar to the DL version. As you board your boat, you see the pirate captain looking around for something. Close by him is a bunch of skulls on spikes in front of some treaure that symbolize some of the danger ahead. Anyway, this Captain is in search for the cursed treasure. You then pass by the cabin in the swamp and enter the caves as the "Keep your ruddy hands in boards" spiel plays. Then you hear the echoes of "Dead Men Tell No Tales" and eventually pass by the skeletons of former pirates who came close to finding the cursed treasure. After that, you take a small dip and get a quick glimpse of the cursed treasure. Now that you saw the treasure, a ghostly voice warns that we may not survive. Then we take a big drop, go up a lift hill and become emerged inbetween Pirates battling to take over the Spanish Ports. We leave that scene and enter the Mayor well dunking scene. Since I did not have all the scenery available, I replaced the mayor with an Arabian Knight and replaced the well with something that chops off heads. This is where you see the Captain again. He is trying to get "Carlos" to tell him where the tresure is. Then you go onto the auction scene. Then you go down a huge drop and into the burning village. Soo you pass by the jail where you see the Captain for the last time trying to bribe the monkey for the keys....Since there was no dog AA's available to choose from, I replaced the dog with a monkey swinging on a tree. Then you go down the last drop, go up a few lift hills, and return back to station.
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September 14, 2011 I recently had the wonderful opportunity to travel with the veterans of the John W. Dill Post from the Brocton American Legion to the 2011 D-Day Conneaut event in Conneaut, Ohio. more »»
Jon Cooke, a loss to our community
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August 9, 2011 Letter to the Editor of the Westfield Republican, In its first words and Bill of Rights, the Constitution of the United States clearly states its objectives. more »»
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Chamber applauds county consolidations
July 5, 2011 The Chautauqua County Chamber of Commerce/Manufacturers Association of the Southern Tier congratulates County Executive Greg Edwards on his recent announcement to appoint Department of Health... more »»
Chamber thanks legislature for downsizing vote
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I discovered that the weight of a 3-year-old jumping on an open dishwasher door is enough to ruin the dishwasher. So we had to buy a new one. The problem was, we are going to redo our kitchen. So we actually looked for a "bridge" unit that was cheap but good. We went with this machine, that we bought for about $300. And it has worked OK for us for what we need it for. It DOES a fair job in cleaning our dishes. It DOES NOT utilize its space well and get everything rinsed as well as other dishwashers I've owned in the past.


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You seem to be taking the same tracks as we did when we went to Tahoe. We used to go shopping to Costco in Carson City when we were there. The scenary is quite different from winter to summer. I don`t think I could have stand the heat plus the elevation! Thanks for the photos. It`s nice to be able to some what follow you in your adventure!
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I stayed three nights at this hotel in the month of July, 2014. It is simply wonderful. The location is excellent, because it is situated very close to the main places of interest of Cantabria, few kilometres away from the coast or from any of the most impressive valleys. And very close to wonderful villages like Carmona, Santillana del Mar,... More
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For the exercising of colonial fantasies, this white-colonnaded tomato-red 19th-century nobleman's estate just outside the historic barrio de Santiago is just the thing. A mere seven rooms plus a chilled, efficient Mexican-Canadian staff make it seem all yours, especially while wandering the tropical gardens, dipping in the pool, or contemplating the courtyard fountain from the shade of the cloisters. Rooms have polished terra-cotta or blue-and-white tiled floors, extravagant carved mahogany or wrought-iron beds with white matelassé bedspreads and pale violet or ocher walls. The nicest have verandas overlooking the gardens. There's a charming bar-lounge with light food, and the chef will do dinner on request, but downtown Mérida's on your doorstep.
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Good standard Hotel I have stopped thre many times and will continue to. The rooms are a good standard,and the service first class.
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Good standard Hotel I have stopped thre many times and will continue to. The rooms are a good standard,and the service first class.
Good breakfast, rooms starting to look a little tired,lots of cobwebs in bathroom. Public areas fine, with comfy sofas in lounge. Overall OK for price. Hotel currently up for sale (Sept 2011).
I am a regular visitor to the Beverley Hotel in Scunthorpe, and must say that this is certainly the best hotel in the area and real value for money. The Landlady (Sue) and her staff are the most polite and pleasant people, and they cant do enough to make your stay a pleasant one. As a single traveller, I often... More
Having been a traveller for over thirty years, AND having never been so ****** off to feel the need to complain before, I feel I must warn other weary travellers about this hotel. It is by far the worst accomodation I have experenced in recent years. Don't be fooled by the exterior pics AND definitely do not opt for the... More
The twin bedded room me and my daughter stayed is was cramped and very very cold, we were told the next morning when we mentioned the cold was that is was because we were from the south!! (Dover) what did that mean???????????? However the breakfast was excellent.
I visited the Beverley Hotel earlier this year whilst visiting family in the area - I was transferred there when the Premier Inn overbooked! At the time, I was not best pleased, but this improved greatly when I arrived at the Beverley Hotel. I was greeted at the door by the lovely owner, and was promptly shown to a beautiful... More
I stayed at the Beverley hotel for two nights a week for the last few months as I was working in Scunthorpe. I was very impressed with the friendly, personalized service that I received. The standard of the rooms was excellent, and as a regular I was given free choice of which of the well appointed and spotlessly clean rooms... More
My husband and I were looking to stay overnight in Scunthorpe and found a hidden gem in the Beverley Hotel. For the extremely reasonable price and seeing the car park full of contractors work vans we were not expecting too much, however we were met by the pleasant owner who showed us to one of the most beautiful rooms we... More