Le canelé de Bordeaux
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Bordeaux in the news
Read about Grand Parc in the Guardian today here . Here's a little video en français with English subtitles. EU Mies Award 2019 : Transformation of 530 Dwellings - Grand Parc Bordeaux from caviar.archi on Vimeo .
A report on the gilets jaunes
We've not seen any trouble personally. The closest I got was on Wednesday when I had to collect something from a shop near the opera house and before going I just checked the news media and saw that the high school students were demonstrating at the opera house, so I postponed my errand for a couple of hours to let them move on. The shops in the street around the Maison de la Bible have been advised to close and to barricade their doors and windows today, and the trams will not be going through the city centre from mid-day until things calm down. The abolished "tax on the rich" that is mentioned is the ISF, an inheritance tax levied on the largest fortunes. The government replaced the tax with one that just taxes bequests of property, the ISI, the intention being to encourage people to buy shares in French companies knowing they can pass them on tax-free to their kids.
Why we're applying for Carte de Séjour rather than French Nationality
Pat has her appointment at the Préfecture on the 12th of December!
The race for naturalisation
We have not proceeded with naturalisation, partly because it would cost us about 500€ just to get everything translated that needs translating, without any administration fees.
The great Nutella riots
Supermarket chain Intermarché has an offer on 950g jars of Nutella. Usually sold for about 5 euros they've cut the price to 1,41€, limited to three jars per customer, and sparked the great Nutella riots of 2018, rivalling the infamous British Ikea Sofa Stampede for notoriety.
The French café, becoming extinct?
If you're a bit confused about cafés, bistrots, brasseries, restaurants, this won't help at all. There is a version of this film in English, too, below the French version. and in English:
