Mar11
In Paris, the customer is not always right
The idea of service is taken very seriously in France where any feeling of subservience is strongly resisted, as Emma Jane Kirby discovered. Paris is in a bad mood. The sullen, steel-grey sky seems to be permanently snivelling sleet. The Seine, swollen against its banks, pushes and squeezes its way through the city like an [...]
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Japanese expats take their brooms to Paris streets
Japanese expatriates took to the streets of Paris on Sunday armed with brooms to clean up the city for the tens of thousands of Japanese tourists who visit each year. Japanese expats take their brooms to Paris streets Related Articles: Global multitasking: it’s in her DNA Japanese Visitors to Australia Dalai Lama to Japanese youth: [...]
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