I have a long train ride and very little battery charge on my laptop (there were outlets on my last train that I discovered at the end, but none on this one) so this post is beginning life being written down…by a pen…onto paper. Insanity, I know. So, about a month ago there was a news story about a law in France that made it easier for businesses to be open on Sundays. Of course, as an American, my natural reaction was “there are businesses that close on Sundays? There are businesses that close?!” Now that I have been to both France and Italy I have seen this phenomenon at work. However it isn’t limited to just Sundays. Even the biggest cities have a ton of small markets, cafes, restaurants and bakeries that seem to close
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