The 5 Month Sleep

Thanks to Paul McM for sharing this amazing article from the New York Times on how the French would ‘hibernate’ for 5 months of the year until quite recently. A lesson to us all in these hectic times!

Thursday, 20 December 2007

One response to The 5 Month Sleep

  1. Graham said:

    That’s the best idea Ive heard for years. If we all took that example, and abolished Christmas consumer madness, I wonder how many power stations we could shut down?

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