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patrickl:
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--- Quote from: patrickl on July 14, 2007, 10:07:46 pm ---Are you french yourself? You sound french at least.
I'm sorry to say, but I don't think you can trust Americans if they say they enjoy something directly to the people who are involved in the "something". They are extremely polite and will usually say it's the greatest "something" they ever enjoyed even if they hate it.
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I had the greatest time in Amsterdam. Take that as you will. ;D
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Yeah, you can even have a good time in a sewer like Amsterdam. I have managed to do that too on occasion :P
DrewKaree:
You left? ;D
Jouster:
--- Quote from: Grasshopper on July 15, 2007, 02:49:01 pm ---With all the knee-jerk anti-French BS you get on this board, your open minded attitude towards the country is quite refreshing.
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--- Quote from: arcadefever on July 15, 2007, 03:46:20 pm ---most of the things we think is based on the MEDIA :badmood: and what we hear...
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Hey, it's not like I went to Europe hoping to have a bad time...cause that would be far from the truth.
But when you walk into a restaurant and stand there for 10 minutes while other people come in after you and get seated ahead of you (blatantly), and then when the wait staff does finally get around to you, they clear the table of the nice silver ware and the cloth tablecloth and the cloth napkins and brought out the cheap utensils and a plastic tablecloth and paper napkins...it isn't hard to tell that you are being treated like shizit!
Not all Paris was bad...I mean the tower was cool, the arc was cool, the Louvre was cool...but then just got boring (too much art for me), the Palace of Versailles was beautiful...the food was great. But most of the people that we ran into were not very nice. I hate to extrapolate that to the whole country...and I'll retract anything that may have sounded that way. But the trip I had there was not great.
We also went to London and Switzerland...we had no problem with people in either place. I would go back to either right away.
I'll be hitting Portugal and Spain early next year for a week or so...I may end up going back to France as well at some point in the future...I've got no problem giving it a second chance.
Jouster
arcadefever:
--- Quote ---I'll be hitting Portugal and Spain early next year for a week or so
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:cheers: you going to have a great time, spain is very Beautiful , and the food is GREAT :applaud:
never been to portugal, but heard a lot of good thing about it ;)
--- Quote ---I may end up going back to France as well at some point in the future
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i workt in Paris, but to be honest, it is nothing like the country side ;)
Grasshopper:
--- Quote from: Jouster on July 15, 2007, 10:10:09 pm ---
--- Quote from: Grasshopper on July 15, 2007, 02:49:01 pm ---With all the knee-jerk anti-French BS you get on this board, your open minded attitude towards the country is quite refreshing.
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--- Quote from: arcadefever on July 15, 2007, 03:46:20 pm ---most of the things we think is based on the MEDIA :badmood: and what we hear...
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Hey, it's not like I went to Europe hoping to have a bad time...cause that would be far from the truth.
But when you walk into a restaurant and stand there for 10 minutes while other people come in after you and get seated ahead of you (blatantly), and then when the wait staff does finally get around to you, they clear the table of the nice silver ware and the cloth tablecloth and the cloth napkins and brought out the cheap utensils and a plastic tablecloth and paper napkins...it isn't hard to tell that you are being treated like shizit!
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Jouster, my comment was not really directed at you. It was more directed towards some of the nonsense that gets posted in the P&R forum from people who have almost certainly never been to France.
If you actually went there and had a bad experience then fair enough. Personally, I've never had any problems with French people but then I suppose I could have been lucky.
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