Issue Entry:August 2025 Everyone's out to play. I’ve spent this month of August in Paris, and something I felt very deeply this time is the European vacance culture. Many businesses (including the ones I really needed to go to) completely close up for the month of August simply because… The shopkeepers are on vacation. Because everybody else is in the neighborhood is on vacation, there isn’t much one can do within the neighborhood and this encourages all the remaining people to take vacations...