Originally Posted by
botfly
What I found most interesting is that businesses can still survive by closing one full month during the period that supposedly to be busiest.
I run a small restaurant in HK and if I do that I'd have to pay the rent out of my own pocket!
To generalise, everybody leaves Paris in August, nobody goes there. Well, a number of confused and bewildered foreign tourists do, but not French people.
It just works for them