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[Original Link] This article is about our inability to leave work behind when we go on holiday, but I was strcuk by the assertion that “less than 30 percent of Americans have a passport”.

This struck me as shocking initially, but I suppose a fair comparison here is asking not how many people in the UK have left their country, but asking how many Europeans have left their continent. I suspect the figure might be lower.

[Original Link] This article is about our inability to leave work behind when we go on holiday, but I was strcuk by the assertion that “less than 30% of Americans have passports”.

Yesterday we went to see “The Closet”, a film with Daniel Auteuil and Gerard Depardieu. I haven’t laughed so much for quite a while. I generally enjoy French films, but because they’re stylish, bizarre, clever or unusual. I don’t usually expect them to be funny. At least, not intentionally. And certainly not this funny. Highly recommended.