{"id":3694,"date":"2025-12-29T18:15:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/adventure\/?p=3694"},"modified":"2025-12-29T18:15:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:15:28","slug":"what-we-didnt-know-about-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/adventure\/what-we-didnt-know-about-france\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Didn&#8217;t Know About France"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">1. What are some of the \u201cthings\u201d or activities that French people do for fun?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ANSWER:<\/strong> In the South of France, the French play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petanque.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">petanque<\/a>. In the winter in the alps, many families go on holiday, especially in March, to ski and snowshoe. And the French enjoy the <em>\u201cart de vivre\u201d<\/em> [art of living], relax, cook, eat, spend time with family and drink wonderful French wine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"547\" height=\"154\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/3things\/france1.jpg\"><br>Photos courtesy: ATOUT FRANCE &#8211; France Tourism Development Agency<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/3things\/france3.jpg\" width=\"547\" height=\"367\"><br>Photos courtesy: ATOUT FRANCE &#8211; France Tourism Development Agency<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">2. What&#8217;s one thing the public probably does NOT know about France?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ANSWER:<\/strong> That France is the size of Texas. France has 22 regions and 88 departments, and that a region could be compared to a state and a department to a county in our US system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/3things\/france-map.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"547\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/3things\/france2.jpg\"><br>Photos courtesy: ATOUT FRANCE &#8211; France Tourism Development Agency<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">3. Share some aspect of France as regards to what it has contributed to the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ANSWER:<\/strong> The X- ray, the moving pictures, and hot air balloons were all invented in France by French citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/3things\/france4.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. 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And the French enjoy the \u201cart de vivre\u201d [art of living], relax, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1627,29,134,1629,1628],"class_list":["post-3694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-three-things-about","tag-eiffel-tower","tag-featured","tag-france","tag-hot-air-balloons","tag-x-ray"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What We Didn&#039;t Know About France - Traveling Boy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/adventure\/what-we-didnt-know-about-france\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What We Didn&#039;t Know About France - Traveling Boy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"1. 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