Sans Soucis Mon Gars!

It begins. A series of blogs so boring and inane, your brain will rust. Sure the first few days were exciting and I'm sure there will be more to tell of, but now I'm settling down. I am noticing those "cute" differences between cultures that travellers speak of for what seems like eons and are interesting to no one but themselves. That's right, I find them interesting because I am travelling, you may too since you're the type to be reading things on the net. On the metro trains that link the city there are posters of a "cool guy" holding open the train doors. The poster is in French and under a bunch of gibberish there is written in large red capitals the word RETARD. In just the last year thousands upon thousands of retards have been fined for just doing their thing - or so i can gather from the LED counter at the exit of a particular metro station. Bored already? Coke cans are the same, except original flavour, that's gold! Sprite cans are silver and gold! Two dollar coins are big and have a gold inner circle and a silver outer! One dollar coins are shaped like our 50c! The five cent is bigger than the 10 and they have quaters here too! Video rental prices range from two to four dollars! Even more bored? Well this one's gonna tip you over into an oblivion of boredom or bring you right back with ears and eyes a-twitchin' (you'll know who you are, and I know too). CD's cost $16 at the most (we're talking HMV prices here lads); DVD's only a little more and ... in the next few weeks Fantomas, The Shins and The Mars Volta are playing for less than thirty bucks a pop! woot woot and double woot. Stay tuned for the next post featuring the undersea adventures of Bob L'eponge and the Francophonic hi jinx of Les Simpsons!