This is another reason why I wanted to get away from the cities even in more rural Southern France, 2 hour lunch break when almost everything shuts, just really nice rather than the cheese sandwich at your desk whilst answering calls and catching up with less urgent emails. Two hour lunch breaks would be nice. But how about a 4 FOUR hour lunch break? How can you call it full time work and close at noon, shutters go down on shop windows, business close the town siren sounds and everything shuts at noon. Nothing opens till 4pm. Yep business do start at 8am, the boulangera is open and doing a roaring trade at 8am, everyone getting the daily fresh bread or gorgeous cakes, day old French bread is not good and the idea of freezing bread would be unheard of. After 4pm everything open again and re-open for business. They stay open till 7pm so you get a 7 hour day. 5 days a week and you have your 35 hour French full time week. Now if I was anything like bi-lingual and had no liabilities here would I move?
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