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I've just got back from Paris. And I had a lovely time. I've got some French, so perhaps that's what made things easier for me. I had one terribly snobby waiter and the rest of the people I dealt with were wonderful.

I find it difficult to believe that there was no one around a bus station who could help her find a taxi and even harder to believe there weren't any taxis nearby. Bad luck, I'm thinking.

I hope the rest of her trip is/was wonderful
 
 
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I'm going to email Lori or Kate to ask them to close this thread.

I'm not going to have anymore attacks on my or my niece because of her experiences there.
 
 
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I didn't not mean any attack on either of you. Sorry for upsetting you
 
 
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Yes, I too have received less than nice treatment in Paris. In a train station, I politely asked a girl at the ticket window, in my best poor French, if she spoke English. She started screaming at me NO ENGLISH NO ENGLISH NO ENGLISH!!! It was so humiliating.

My aunt and I stopped another girl, again, with my poor French I asked her where was le Tour Eiffel, as I knew enough that they don't understand Eiffel Tower. This girl, I found out later, pointed me in the opposite direction. Very rude!!

I got a taxi from my hotel, and asked the driver to take me back to le Tour Eiffel, because my aunt didn't want to go up it when she saw it! The driver is driving and all of the sudden I see the Eiffel Tower down a long Avenue, but the driver was going at a right angle to it. I tried to say to him that we should be heading toward the Eiffel Tower and he looked and me and said in French...sorry NO ENGLISH NO ENGLISH (this is popular there). So I knew the word for stop in French and I started saying STOP STOP. He then said something to me in French, which I didn't understand. However, I knew at that point that he was taking me the LONNNNNNG way, cause he had kept driving AWAY, from where I had seen the Eiffel tower. I had a map in my hands and knew he was going to charge me a high fare for the long tour around the Eiffel tower. So finally he stopped! He was mad at me, but I didn't understand what he was saying. So all I could say back was NO FRENCH NO FRENCH!

At our hotel, we ordered and were served pork chops that were so hard, we couldn't even cut them with our knife! My aunt and I both thought it was because we were American, the waitress was less than friendly, as much as we tried to be nice to her!!

Up on the hill with Montmartre and Sacre Cour Chapel I saw most shops had these nice copies of paintings of well know spots in Paris, like the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre etc. Most shops had them 3 for 20 euros. One shop was selling 4 for 20 euros, so that's where I bought mine. I picked out the 4 I wanted and then the shopkeeper was so nice as to wrap them for me for my travel. When I got home, there were only 3 of the 4 and not one of the ones that I really wanted!! No wonder she was so nice to wrap them up. She did it in a way that I couldn't see her wrapping them too.

Yes folks, there are some Parisians who don't like us Americans. Saw some grafitti in the subways there... it said Bush = Rat, so maybe that's it.

Heard the same thing about Bush when I was in England too. They really hated him over there.
 
 
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I just wanted to also say that I figured out a way to make the French speak English to me.

I do speak quite a bit more Spanish than I do French and so I would ask them in French, do they speak Spanish or English. Every time I did that then, they would choose English... I know if I just asked them if they spoke English, they wouldn't because I had alot of experience with that situation, until I tried the above situation.

I do want to say, that once you leave Paris, the French become alot friendlier out of the city!!
 
 
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