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patrickl:

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--- Quote from: shmokes on July 16, 2007, 08:48:15 pm ---
France is the most visited country in the world.  It is the number one vacation spot in the entire world. 


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No it's not.

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At least till 2005 apparently it was:
World Tourism Rankings

Jouster:
I'm not full of anything other than the truth.  I by no means said that every single person in Paris was a dick...just the ones that served us.  That one restaurant example was the worst case that we ran into, there were other examples as well...but we also ran into some other people that we very nice and helpful.

And I might go back only because my wife or the friends I have now want to go.  And I'm not someone that likes to have one bad experience and label everything associated with it as bad.  I've gone back to eat at places where the service and/or food was horrible the first time I went.  Everyone can have a bad or off day...I'd rather be fair about it.

Jouster

Buddabing:
I visited Paris two years ago. I loved it. I went there during Thanksgiving (late November) so the peak tourist season was over. A lot of times I tried speaking French to them (my French is about the level of "Je suis Tarzan, tu es Jane") and a lot of them would speak English back to me. The hotel people, waiters, and people on the street were very nice to us, with few execptions. Maybe it's worse during the tourist season.

They had bottles of wine for two euros!

And the U.S. has never been to war with France!

They've got Nutella spread!

And the Louvre!

And great bread!

shmokes:
The kicker is that Nutella in Europe is different than in the U.S.  It's better overseas.  And it's healthier.  Buy Nutella here and it has hydrogenated oil in it.  Buy it in France and it does not.  Same goes for anything Yoplait.  And chocolate.  It's like companies think that Americans will buy anything (foodwise) regardless of quality so they territorialize it to be as absolutely inexpensive as possible to produce/distribute, but they know they can't get away with that over there.  Pisses me off -- mainly because I really like Nutella and yogurt. 

California wine, on the other hand, can go toe to toe with any wine in the world.  And they refuse to call their champagne "sparkling wine" regardless of what the French have to say about it.  I think that's pretty cool.

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