Allanm
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A few weeks ago, we went to France. From Calais down to the med and back up again ( Via Parc Verger) Apart from that site, we spent 14 nights in different Aires.
Most of them were in small towns / villages.
7 of them were sited next to Primary schools, 4 of these were also next to children's playgrounds. One was actually within the grounds of an unfenced primary school.
I went out every morning with my camera, Mrs A and I spoke to the children going to school ( they all stopped to fuss our dogs) and walked past fairground type rides at Le Crotoy where parents were happily videoing and taking pictures of their children on the rides. ( I didn't use my camera near the rides, we had no children with us)
Not once was I or anybody else accused of being a pervert, no one objected to their children being photographed by complete strangers. No one hid their children while walking past our van parked yards from the entrance to the school and no Gendarmes came to ask what we were doing.
Whats wrong with France? Don't they realise everyone with a camera near a school is a pervert? Anyone photographing their child on a fairground ride is a pervert. Men walking dogs and talking to children are perverts.
It took me a while to figure out what was wrong, then the penny ( cent) dropped.
The Daily Mail isn't on sale in France!
Allan
Most of them were in small towns / villages.
7 of them were sited next to Primary schools, 4 of these were also next to children's playgrounds. One was actually within the grounds of an unfenced primary school.
I went out every morning with my camera, Mrs A and I spoke to the children going to school ( they all stopped to fuss our dogs) and walked past fairground type rides at Le Crotoy where parents were happily videoing and taking pictures of their children on the rides. ( I didn't use my camera near the rides, we had no children with us)
Not once was I or anybody else accused of being a pervert, no one objected to their children being photographed by complete strangers. No one hid their children while walking past our van parked yards from the entrance to the school and no Gendarmes came to ask what we were doing.
Whats wrong with France? Don't they realise everyone with a camera near a school is a pervert? Anyone photographing their child on a fairground ride is a pervert. Men walking dogs and talking to children are perverts.
It took me a while to figure out what was wrong, then the penny ( cent) dropped.
The Daily Mail isn't on sale in France!
Allan