I EXPECT you've come across those competitions in magazines and newspapers that invite you identify some place in a photo? They're entitled 'Where is this?' or 'Where am I?' and they give you various clues. If yours is the correct answer drawn out of the hat you win a free weekend at somebody's bed and breakfast, or maybe some luggage to take your stuff there.

SO, WE have a new President. Nothing to do with us, of course. We didn't help to choose him. Not our fault. Would we have voted for François Hollande, if we could have? Aha, that's another question. But it's academic. We don't have the right to vote, though our inalienable human right to pay French taxes is graven in marble in the French constitution.