France and Italy and other places …
Posted by Gordon on January 27, 2009
.. said Robert Dessaix (just after discussing ‘Uzes, a gem’) at about 8.30 into this Slow TV broadcast, meaning perhaps that other places, other countries, the 180 odd there are, count collectively less than France or Italy.
On a more quotidian level it’s the sort of thing someone might say (unremarkably) at a picnic – that’s where they are going or want to live or mostly travel. And thinking about it that’s the two countries I’ve been the most places in outside my home country (perhaps more time all up in London than Italy). I’m sure there are more ads for flat swaps in the New York Review of Books for those three countries etc.
So what is it about the two of them?
