style restaurant in paris too actually called breakfast in america and it's a hit it's famous for its hearty american breakfast major success and the owner craig has a great book about his experience a great read um just how we set up shop in france and all the trials and tribulations of that process so i'll link the book down below and along with savory breakfast the concept of diners it's not big in france either okay next pickup trucks and this is one that exists but it's not on the same level in france you will see pickup trucks here and there but nowhere near as often as in the us and what we see are kind of cute little pickup trucks here and not these giant ones and like i said although they exist pickup trucks are rare in france and are used to actually haul equipment when they are used and people don't just buy them for the look you know sometimes people in the us use them very rarely but they just like having a pickup truck for weekend projects or when we need to haul stuff but the beds are empty a lot in france you won't find that if someone has a pickup truck it's being used functionally for work for a pickup truck purpose what they do have in france workmen usually drive a different kind of vehicle to haul their gear and it looks more like a van or a small truck and it's not a big ford f-NUMBER_TOKEN with a bed in the back so just different strokes for different folks just keep in mind pickup trucks in france are for function first and they are smaller okay next screens on windows and this is the only one that gets under my skin actually and in the summer on any given day even now i have about five flies buzzing around my office and will even get bees or wasps and my favorite are these big spiders that literally are the size of my palm and that's because it's not customary in french homes to have window screens like we would in the us and this is actually very uncommon in many areas of europe as well it's just not cultural to have screens on windows or in your sliding back door that opens to your backyard and if you're not aware in the u.s most homes have discreet window screens that one keep the bugs out and two they can prevent your cat or your house plant from falling out the window and it's a major cultural difference and like i said this lack of screens bothers me in particular not because the bugs are flying around but because i'm extremely sensitive to insect bites i've had really bad reactions to mosquitoes and spiders that have landed me at the doctor's office i'll put up a few pics and it's just not fun now hardware stores have started selling diy screen kits in recent years but they could be tricky to install i'm looking at my window because they're vertical french windows often open inward they don't slide up and down so there can be areas where it's hard to kind of affix the screen and then bugs can still get in so what do we do we deal with it we use the zappy racket that it's kind of like a tennis match with yourself we have a mosquito net for around our bed and when the insects do feast on me there's an amazing french pharmacy product it's called santel looks like this and it takes the sting out of the bites it's
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