A recent letter to the Editor of the Wall Street Journal by Dick Bagby of Virginia Beach entitled "I was Wrong About Parisian Cafe Society" is worth sharing:
"Regarding your editorial "Hollande's First Step Backward" (June 7): Wow, was I surprised to read that France's newly elected Socialist President François Hollande was lowering the retirement age in France to 60 from 62.
On my last visit to Paris, after seeing so many able-bodied Parisians sitting in bistros, reading novels and sipping aperitifs, I had assumed the retirement age was 38."
For the SNCF (French train), you are eligible for retirement
- at 50 if you do physical work,
- at 55 if you have a desk job.
But as a passenger, you are eligible for the "Senior" rates only if you are 60 or older.
Posted by: Parigi | June 27, 2012 at 11:29 AM