Apologies for slowing down the posts to every other day but that is the side effect of vacations in France… at breakfast, while gobbling a pain au chocolat, I think of lunch and of course at lunch time, I am planning dinner!

So yesterday, while getting the daily newspaper -just after having posted about the Love Calendars- my appetite was awaken by another calendar displayed at the local newstand.

The calendar showed nude and semi-nude photograps of members of the Stade Français, a Paris-based national French rugby team.

These calendars started in 2001 with a partial amount of the profits going each year to various charities and have become extremely popular among the French.

One woman said that she bought it at first as a response to the number of Bimbo Calendars that her male colleagues were displaying in the office -sexual harrasment has room for growth compared to the US- but then she admits that she has been very appreciative of these eye catching pictures. So now she buys them on Amazon every year as a daily dose of eye candy!

Vive le Rugby!

Here is a video of the making of the Calendar to give you a taste of it all and their website: french-rugby-players.com.