Further around

As long term readers will know, I do love the merry-go—rounds that seem to abound in France. Sure enough, on this most recent of our French holidays we came across yet more merry-go-rounds. And the children seem do still love them, an innocent old-fashioned pleasure in these high-tech days.

In Dijon

In Beaune

However, it wasn’t until I was looking at the photos we had taken that I suddenly realised the big difference between French merry-go-rounds & British ones. The former go anti-clockwise, as you go around their road roundabouts whilst ours go clockwise, as we go around road roundabouts.

We are quite convinced that the French seem to take pleasure in doing things the opposite way from us. So it is that windows open inwards in France, outwards in Britain, for example. If there is a way of doing something different the French will find it. That’s not an adverse criticism of them. It’s just part of their wonder & why we love them so.