What do you think of France?

@maximax8 (31046)
United Kingdom
February 27, 2010 8:32am CST
France is next door to my home country and I visited it when I was a child. I used to go there when I lived in the county of Kent ever so often. I did trips, weekends away and day trips. Now I live further away from it. I learned the French language for five years when I was at school. I know that France is the most popular country for tourism in Europe. I think that Paris is a very beautiful city. I like the French train system and how it links up with the rest of Europe. I have visited French Polynesia and it is like a piece of France in the tropics. It has white sandy beaches with palm trees. It is a pricey destination to go to. What do you think of France? Have you ever been there? Would you like to visit it? Do you know of any overseas departments of France?
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@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
28 Feb 10
we did a 5 nation tour in 1968 and in NO place were the people more rude than Paris I think the ONLY nice Frenchman we met was their version of a hotdog vendor, and even then we didn't share a word of the same language...
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@AmbiePam (92789)
• United States
1 Mar 10
I asked my brother-in-law, who had toured Europe while in a singing group, if the people in England were snobby. That wasn't my own opinion, I had been listening to someone talk about Great Britain as a whole. Anyway, he said they weren't snobby at all. Without any prompting he said if I wanted to see snobby, I should go to France. That they take it to a new level. And that from his own experience, they didn't like Americans much either.
@mandybeau (279)
• New Zealand
28 Feb 10
I am primarily French/German. so I love France, what do they say you can take the Frenchman out of France, but you cannot take France out of the Frenchman. France still has little pockets all over the World that speak French and keep up the Culture as I like to think I do. Akaroa is the French Colony in new Zealand, beautiful and truly French. Then there are French Canadians, French Polynesian, Nwew Hebridians, the Channel Isles Guernsey and Jersey. I need to brush up on my French so I opened an online Store and sell french fashion. Mandybeau
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
28 Feb 10
The second I saw your name, I thought you were French. Bonjour. USA has pockets of French, too. Some Acadians and some Cajuns.
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
28 Feb 10
I have flown into France twice as I was flying Air France and had to have it as a destination on my round the world air ticket. We were originally going to spend a week in Paris, but as we heard it was very expensive there and our funds were getting low, we decided to change the itinerary while we were in the USA and just went there as a stopover between New York and London and London and Beijing. We never left the airport which was a shame. Might have to go back again one day!
@satya4186 (279)
• India
28 Feb 10
yes i know one thing about france that mosquito is not found in france and i want to something more about france can you tell me something about france.
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@satya4186 (279)
• India
28 Feb 10
yes my dear i don't know more about france but i know the wonder thing that france is a alone country where mosquito is not found so dear i want to ask a question if mean there is viral fever ?
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• United States
27 Feb 10
I think of France just as you do I really don't speak France but I really wish I did. I am hoping that maybe one day I can get a chance to visit it because I haven't yet. I do not know of any overseas departments of France. So I am sorry about that.
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@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
27 Feb 10
My colleague visits France, Paris every summer. She takes her whole family to visit Euro Disneyland and her 6 year old loves it a lot. She has learned how to travel on her own using the metro and despite that French language is not her forte she has managed to do quite well there. I have seen a lot of beautiful museum photos. France seems to be rich in history and culture. Though food seems really expensive there.!
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
27 Feb 10
I have been to France many times. My first visit to France was 20 years ago when I was a teenager. My parents, my brother and I drove around in France for 2 weeks and we visited a lot of different places. I especially liked Mont San Michel, but I also enjoyed visiting other places in France. One year later we went to France again and that time my parents, brother and I travelled with some friends and their children. We had a very good time. Part of the time we stayed in an apartment in Alsace, and the rest of the time we drove around and visited different places. At that time I hadn't studied French at school, but I managed to learn some French words while we were travelling. My father is good at French and he was the one who talked to the staff for the hotels, the waiters, the shop assistents etc. In the 9th grade I started studying French, and when I visited France with a friend I was finally able to communicate with the locals. I have been to Paris 3 times. I have been there with there with my family and in 1999 I went there with a friend. I have alteady visited many of the famous sights, but I would still like to visit Paris again one day.
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@jakill (835)
27 Feb 10
I love visiting france, have been to Paris several times, camped and stayed in gites in western France. My most memorable visit was when I attended a relative's wedding in the English church in Maisons-Lafitte, where a number of English resistance heroes are immortalised with plaques. Afterwards we drove in a honking convoy four miles to the reception at St Germain en Laye, wher we stayed the night. in the morning we walked the gorunds of the nearby chateau, which was the German HQ for Paris in the last war. There is a long terrace with just magical views over the city and the River Seine. I've also been to Morocco where most people spoke French as well as Arabic and English.
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@Niah1976 (739)
• Paranaque, Philippines
27 Feb 10
Hi there! I haven't been in France but I wish I could go there someday. Based from what I saw in TV it is such a romantic place. Fresh air and beautiful scenery are one of the reasons why people visit there.
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@tigeraunt (6326)
• Philippines
27 Feb 10
dear maxim, it really is a very popular tourist place. i have been dreaming of one day i will be able to reach the place but there always comes a situation, so nothing happens about my dream. now, i am content with just watching videos about france and pictures. happy mylotting. ann
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• Bangladesh
22 Mar 10
Well friend, As I love travelling, I wish to visit France just for a single time in my life. Have a nice day
@freeboy90 (456)
• Italy
27 Feb 10
I have been studying french for several years now, but still I can't really get into it. I think France like many coutries in europe has his own style and beauty so it will be worth visiting, for that reason it's on my list. But for what I've heard and according to some of my past experiences with french people, I can tell that french are not very friendly, they don't speak good english and expect you to speak french well, if you don't they will probably be mocking you orgive you an hard time if you try to speak french.
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• Bangladesh
27 Feb 10
Well max..I would really like to travel to France. But the worst case is,I don't usually get a vacation now a days.I have to earn for my family now. And overtime is just killing me.By the way..don't worry.In my dreams, I went to France a lot of times.HA HA...Take care
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@AmbiePam (92789)
• United States
1 Mar 10
When I was a child, I would have loved to go to France. Now, you couldn't pay me to go there.
@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
1 Mar 10
well, that's strange, what happened to my response?
@goldeneagle (6745)
• United States
18 Mar 10
I would like to visit France. I hear it is beautiful. I would like to go to some of the historic sites from World War II and see some of the places my ancestors fought. I would love to be able to go to France and spend a couple of months just touring around...
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
1 Mar 10
I was there and it was beautiful, but the people were not terrible friendly...
• Philippines
4 Mar 10
im glad coz you've been there, France is one of my dream country to visit with. i wish to go to france someday as i wanted to see those amazing work of arts from famous artist. i want to see those architectural design and paintings. i have cousin there so i know it will not be hard for me to get visa but the only problem is money. so i will going to save money little by little so i can go there someday.
• United States
3 Mar 10
Is it true that the "French" DON'T like to BATHE regularly??