In message , at 18:11:59 on Fri, 20 
Jun 2008, Peter Beale  remarked:
>The strange thing about France is that several years after going over 
>to the Euro, many bills and credit card slips still have the amount in 
>francs as well as euros. I am not sure why this is.

It was like that originally in the Netherlands too (not French francs 
though, of course), but it soon went away. It seemed to be linked to 
people who hadn't had their menus and price tags reprinted into Euros 
yet.
-- 
Roland Perry