= Сообщение: 4952 из 12549 ====================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : Robert Bashe 2:2448/44 12 May 17 11:06:48 Кому : BjФrn Felten 12 May 17 11:06:48 Тема : The British Museum and The Louvre FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:2448/44+59157e61 На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+5914989a = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP866 ================================== ============================================================================== BjФrn Felten wrote to David Rance on Thursday May 11 2017 at 19:00:
DR>> It was Ann that introduced me to Paris. She studied at the Sorbonne DR>> as part of her degree course and she loved the city.
BF> Yeah, it's an amazing city. The only thing I didn't like about it was BF> the people.
BF> Albeit this was 1967, when the French people obviously still held BF> (had?) a grudge against everything German (Swedish seemingly being the BF> same).
Surprises me. I first visited Paris in 1967 with a German lab assistant from the chemistry lab in Heldelberg.
I can still remember us driving into the city next to a large square, and me running over to two girls walking near the road, to ask "est-ce-que Paris?". I can't remember what they said, and probably only understood a little (my French is still not really good), but it was positive :-)
After that, we got a cheap hotel and started sightseeing. In the evening, we went to a nightclub area (can't remember exactly where), and my buddy picked up a French girl who only spoke French and some English, so I had to translate into German for him. We visited the Louvre, Napoleon's Tomb and the Eiffel Tower, among other things. It was a great weekend (that was all the time we had), and I certainly didn't notice any unfriendliness in the population during that time, although my buddy and I were speaking German.
Mybe you just had bad luck.
BF> I hope that the Parisians have changed now -- although my latest BF> experience (2012) in the Marseille area was kinda disappointing...
My most recent trip to France was several years ago, to southern France near Juan-les-pins. Beautiful area, but unfortunately very overrun by tourists. Best visited in the early spring or late fall, although many accommodations are closed by that time.
