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Subject: Re: OT: Nice eveneing for a swim in the Hudson Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:01:48 +0000 (UTC)

rosie wrote in
news:52f247ba-a190-43fb-b6bd-838a77a2a18a@b1g2000yqg.googlegroups.com:

> On Jan 15, 7:52�pm, Janet Wilder wrote:
>> > The Poms would be used to it. I was just reading a travel report
>> > and th
> e
>> > reporter said that London would have to be the 'rudest' city he's
>> > been to. Waiters, taxi drivers etc.
>>
>> I guess it just isn't us, then. We were in Europe this Fall and we
>> found � mostly all of the people in the several countries we
>> visited to
> be
>> friendly and helpful, even in Paris where I was led to expect
>> otherwise. The rudest people were in London.
>>
>> JMHO
>
> Although they get a bad rap in France and especially in Paris, I have
> always found people to be friendly and helpful.
>


My SO and her mother travelled quite extensively through France, and
have vowed never to go back. I, on the other hand, had a great time, and
the French people bent over backwards to help me, feed me, get me
shitfaced everyday that I was there!! In the small villages...... I
never went to Paris or any large towns.

--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia


"And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with
troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the
clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before
a force could be brought together to repel them?"

Benjamin Franklin 1748

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