What is it about France? Why would anyone consider buying a house here?
- Well, apart from the food, wine, pace of life.. What did the Romans ever do for us? - type answer?
Maybe one of the things to admire is soapbox racing. Not soapbox racing as in - 'racing soapboxes', but the idea that it's fine to close roads in the center of your town or village for a day and instead of being beholden to retail we all come out to play together and put our energy into making a spectacle.
-What are the UK equivalents to soapbox racing? - cheese rolling, Morris dancing, or bog snorkeling perhaps?
Downhill soapbox racing is taken seriously enough to have an association -'Les detendus de la caisse a savon".. for which Google translate comes up with "The relaxed soap box". - Does this suggest there may also be uptight soap box racing associations? Let's hope so..
Here's a relaxed video-