>>>My father was in a French hospital after a heart attack while driving to the South of France and the food there was excellent (never saw their itemised bill though)
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>EU reciprocity = no bill.
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>Not keen to say it here, but care definitely is best in world in some parts of France, especially the parts close to Germany and Switzerland, iow not where your father was.
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>Of course the French insist on doing everything their own way. My kids went to school during a visit a few years ago and the school stopped mid-day so the kids could go home for hot dinner in the middle of the day. And home they all went.

Despite them being the biggest cultural propaganda outfit for a few centuries (or else how would they get the rest of the world to believe that le shit is somehow more posh than ordinary shit), I'm beginning to like the guys. They got the balls to get their priorities straight, and the system better play along or get lost.