Thanks! Do you have friends and/or family in provincial/rural Italy? The situation must be similar there, perhaps even worse, given that Italy has had virtually ZERO growth since adopting the euro twenty years ago.
Listened to part 2 of the discussion with Ramin yesterday. Really good. Pity about the sporadic audio hiccups. Hope you have better connection next time. Bought the epub version of his book, now slowly reading it. A revelation, esp. that material on Napoleon.
France has 1980s communications. We just got fiber in our village last year, suffering through ADSL before. Cities like Bayeux, Cherbourg and Caen in our region are still 75%-100% copper wire ADSL. That day with Ramin, we had a lot of rain, and since the amount of fiber run is the bare minimum, moisture really makes it bad. I also realized afterwards that my wife was watching TV downstairs, sapping what bandwidth we get, so I'll have to be more careful.
After you read his book, be sure to read Vincent Cronin's "Napoleon". Absolutely mind-blowing. He truly was a socialist who always served the 99%.
Thanks for the reading tip! Been reading some of the reviews of that book on Goodreads, it looks like just the ticket. Will see if I can find a copy.
I still have copper ADSL; my neighborhood in the center of Amsterdam hasn't been wired for fiber yet. Thankfully its the latest reiteration, called VADSL2, and is pretty fast, 100mbs/30mbs. 2010s technology, I suppose.
Such a well written article!!
Thanks! Do you have friends and/or family in provincial/rural Italy? The situation must be similar there, perhaps even worse, given that Italy has had virtually ZERO growth since adopting the euro twenty years ago.
Yes, very many, area I am from is rural, so.....
This is France as I remember it when I fell in love with it.............thank you for your sensitive protrait.
Very nice.
Thank you, sir! How are things in rural Normandy these days?
Wines, cheeses and breads. It could be worse, as we watch the collapse of Western empire.
Mind you, our price range for a good French wine is €2.50-4.00. No need to spend much.
Even cheaper in Portugal!
Listened to part 2 of the discussion with Ramin yesterday. Really good. Pity about the sporadic audio hiccups. Hope you have better connection next time. Bought the epub version of his book, now slowly reading it. A revelation, esp. that material on Napoleon.
France has 1980s communications. We just got fiber in our village last year, suffering through ADSL before. Cities like Bayeux, Cherbourg and Caen in our region are still 75%-100% copper wire ADSL. That day with Ramin, we had a lot of rain, and since the amount of fiber run is the bare minimum, moisture really makes it bad. I also realized afterwards that my wife was watching TV downstairs, sapping what bandwidth we get, so I'll have to be more careful.
After you read his book, be sure to read Vincent Cronin's "Napoleon". Absolutely mind-blowing. He truly was a socialist who always served the 99%.
Thanks for the reading tip! Been reading some of the reviews of that book on Goodreads, it looks like just the ticket. Will see if I can find a copy.
I still have copper ADSL; my neighborhood in the center of Amsterdam hasn't been wired for fiber yet. Thankfully its the latest reiteration, called VADSL2, and is pretty fast, 100mbs/30mbs. 2010s technology, I suppose.
Great stuff. Many thanks!