Strange Things About Europe, Volume 1
1) I saw a couple making out inside Notre Dame. I know Paris is the city of romance, but Notre Dame is still a church.
2) I heard a young British boy who was probably about 10 years old singing There She Goes, most recently recorded by Sixpence None The Richer. I had no idea they were popular over here.
3) On the Eiffel Tower, a British professor with his class of elementary aged students were looking for the “lift” to the top level. He asked me where it was… in French. Perfect French as far as I could tell. Now I ask you, do I look the slightest bit French to you? I answered him in English, and he looked rather embarrassed. I think it was because he thought he had replicated the accent and everything, but through it all I (being French) still knew he was British and that French was his second language.
4) There is a car in France that is small enough to back into (perpendicular) a parking spot that you are supposed to parallel park into. I don’t know what it’s called, but it’s the wussiest thing I’ve ever seen.
