There are lots of Frenchies in London at the moment. I'm not referring to backpacked tourists, but to those sensible French people who come to London to live and work. They are sensible because they know that the only way the French will ever positively influence our appalling habits is to live and work among us, and effect change from the inside. So they are sensible, and also cunning.
But mainly, they wear great clothes, and they are often extremely attractive and - best of all - they speak French! It's like being on St Andre des Arts without having to get on the Eurostar.
I feel a bit sorry for them, though, because where are they buying decent coffee, and apart from the French House and Beaujolais, where are they buying decent wine by the glass, and what are they doing with their leetle dogs, and where are they buying their cool and trendy clothes, and why aren't they in Paris - which is like London, only French?
So many questions.
If I could have these questions answered (to my satisfaction) I would be well on my way to forgiving London for not being Paris (or New York) - so answers on a postcard, please, to....
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i reckon paris is so expensive that london is comparatively cheap for frenchies at the moment. do they not just do stuff we can't afford? like go to anthropologie, apc, comptoir de cottoniers and atelier de joel robuchon? although does that brilliant, tiny place beaujolais still exist?
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