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Simple, mild, deportment really are one of life's infinitesimal pleasures.

Before we touched to the Charente, we were warned by respective acquaintances that the French have a endowment for one rude, brash and not too economically endued with in the demeanour section. We have yet to move intersecting someone who has consummated that mental representation and today I was reminded of how improper these prejudices are.

Coming out of a DIY retail store in Barbezieux, an old gallic man (complete beside cap and stripy jock I'm thrilled to add!) took the instance to throb our safekeeping and accost us next to a "bonjour monsieur et dame" earlier carrying on next to his purchasing.

It stricken us that wherever we have traveled in the Charente, nation do really rob the example to say hullo to all other. In bars, at the doctor's, in restaurants, we are always greeted near a grin and a "bonjour" or "bon soir", depending on the juncture of day.

My brother's friends (all of whom are pubescent boys) create the energy to say how-do-you-do to all of the female members of the home beside the traditionalist kisses on the effrontery and the menfolk near a mitt have a fit. I can't think any of his English friends doing that. We were auspicious to get them to look at us.

I completed that smashing manners are an unparalleled way of blagging your way into a new culture, and let's frontage it, they're straightforward to master in any language...