France
CorsicaFrance: Going Shirtless Can Cost $49
Date: August 18th, 2010 |
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The “no shirt, no service” creed so familiar in the U.S. has cropped up in France, with inland communities beginning to follow the lead of famous beach resort towns by banning shirtlessness or other excessive displays of flesh. Towns such as Cannes and St. Tropez have long had rules against bikini and swimsuit attire away [read more]
Europe: Economic Crunch Prompts Strikes Across Continent
Date: February 24th, 2010 | No Comments
Strikes hit both the public and private sectors of several countries as the financial crisis put increasing pressure on workers and businesses, and some walkouts will carry on into March. Lufthansa pilots struck, French air traffic controllers walked out for four days, Greek unions blockaded the Athens stock market, and prepared to shut down much [read more]
France: Shops May Get Option to Open on Sundays
Date: July 22nd, 2009 | No Comments
Major cities and some 500 tourist areas may soon see shops given the choice to open on Sunday. Currently many businesses such as grocers, markets, furniture stores and certain shops in major tourist neighborhoods are exempt from a 1906 law that established Sunday as a mandatory day off for workers. But throughout France most shops [read more]
France: Bees Swarm, Sting Tourists at Art Gallery
Date: May 20th, 2009 | No Comments
Three British women were swarmed by thousands of bees and one was stung 500 times in an attack at an art gallery in Moulidars, near the town of Cognac. All three were hospitalized but recovered. Why the attack occurred is hard to pinpoint, but a British bee expert said such incidents with the European honey [read more]
France: Health Inspectors Find Spoiled Food in Restaurants across France
Date: August 21st, 2008 | No Comments
One month into a two-month evaluation of food safety across the country, inspectors from the French agriculture ministry found that 27 percent of the establishments checked failed quality and hygiene tests. The inspections targeted everything from food stalls to three-star Michelin restaurants and found the main culprits to be chip, kebab and pizza vendors and [read more]
France: Rent That Paris Vacation Apartment While You Can
Date: July 7th, 2010 | No Comments
It may soon become harder to find a short-term apartment rental in Paris now that the government is enforcing a law passed in 2005 that prohibits renting residential properties for less than a year. By turning their apartments into vacation homes, 0wners can make up to three times the value of an annual lease even [read more]
Europe: Heavy Snow, Cold Disrupt Travel Across Continent, Eurostar to Resume Normal Schedule Dec. 28, Venice Flooded
Date: December 23rd, 2009 | No Comments
Severe winter weather before Christmas disrupted travel throughout Europe, causing flight delays and cancellations in the UK, Germany and Italy, and shutting down the Eurostar “Chunnel” train service between London and Paris for three days. Twenty-five-hundred passengers were stranded without food, water or air conditioning for 16 hours. The breakdown was believed to have been [read more]
France and Spain: ETA Threatens Violence before Summer
Date: May 27th, 2009 | No Comments
In an interview with a Basque newspaper, two members of the Basque separatist group ETA threatened a campaign of violence before the summer. One was quoted as saying ETA would attack tourists and Britons seeking second homes in southwestern France’s Basque region, claiming the outsiders were destroying the region’s culture and heritage. Two years ago [read more]
France: French Railway to Buy 200 Taxi Licenses
Date: October 9th, 2008 | No Comments
French railway company SNCF will try to resolve the dearth of taxis to meet incoming trains in Paris by buying 200 taxi licenses at full value from retiring drivers so it can have it’s own fleet to serve its customers. Even President Nicolas Sarkozy has complained about the difficulty of finding a taxi in the [read more]
France: Police Defuse Bombs in Basque Tourist Area
Date: August 13th, 2008 | No Comments
Police defused three small bombs in French Basque country after firefighters received a telephone warning about five explosive devices planted in a popular tourist area. Police found two of the bombs in a resort and outside the tourism office in Arcangues and the third on a TGV railway line near Ondres. The caller named three [read more]
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