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Originally Posted by ewalling
Sounds like a great experience! Also a good time to have been there - I imagine the country was less 'globalized' than it might be now. I've been to France a few times, but only for short visits. I went to Versailles on a school trip in 1977 and with my brother around 1983.
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Funny true story.
I now live in a small coastal town half way between Melbourne and Sydney.
We don't even have traffic lights.
I was working in the tiny music store a few years back and a young family came in speaking French.
I told them I used to live in France.
'Where in France?"
Small town 'Vaucresson'.
The young Dad was absolutely gobsmacked.
He grew up in Vaucresson.
I drew a crude map of the town with the location of the train station, market square, cinema and .... dry cleaners!
He was in total shock, I could see his head spinning.
How could a guy in a shop in a tiny town in Australia know where the dry-cleaners was in the town he grew up in in France?
His wife thought it was hilarious.