Number one DVD hit over the Chrismas holiday here was the old-fashioned but highly amusing cinema hit of 2006 -- "Camping". Starring several familiar faces like Claude Brasseur and the comic Franck Dubosc, the film is a send-up of the French obsession with the annual camping holiday, in this case at "Les Flots Bleus" somewhere on the Atlantic coast. Gerard Lanvin plays a snooty Paris surgeon who ends up there by mistake, and finds himself falling for the rough, unpretentious charm of the campers. Best line: when Lanvin expresses amazement that the campers have been coming to the same place for the last 30 years and asks why they don't simply buy somewhere instead of having to schleck their tents and caravans down every August. Mais non! they retort, this way they have the choice of where to go. But you come here every year! cries Lanvin in exasperation. Oui, mais ça c'est le camping!! The film also cleared up one point which has puzzled me for years -- how to do the 'bise' -- the kiss of greeting indulged in by the French. Is it two kisses, three, four, more? The good news is that the French don't know any more than we do. At one point a group of campers greet each other. One starts a double 'bise' with a man, who stops her and says - Non - in Melun we only do the one. She then does a single bise to the woman standing beside him, who says "Mais non! En Loire-Atlantique (the department around Nantes) c'est quatre!"