Sunday, July 21, 2013

Trappes les Fringues

A week ago, the French celebrated Bastille Day, the kick-off to the French Revolution that promised a better world - for a short time, and on 20 July, the Germans celebrated the failed attempt to blow up their most famous villain, and it really is a slow news season.

Correction, we just heard about dirt (earth) as a gourmet food in some restaurant in Japan, which gives a couple of the K-Landnews team's most favorite idioms an even more earthy meaning.

And did you know you can get a snail facial? This is an unexpected happy note, because a gooey trail of mucus on your face no longer indicates only a youngsters' first attempt at French kissing or your St. Bernhard puppy's standard Good Morning.

A couple of days ago, after another hospital visit, we had a belated Bastille Day celebration with a small portion of French Fries from one of the local Kebab shops, and we were well on our way to relax in a hot and dry German summer when news of clashes in the Paris suburb of Trappes broke.

French police had once again enforced one of the most stupid laws politicians can make: the ban of the Muslim face veil.

Riots ensued.

Order was restored.

You can go to fly into and out of Frankfurt Airport in that full body Muslim dress without anybody bothering you even in these crazy days of fake terror scares.

But you cannot go for a stroll with your family in the city of Trappes without getting fined and causing a riot.

Well, on the bright side, it gave us an opportunity to make fun of France.


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