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Well,should we. Should we leave them alone to get on with their lives without our money . They could then afford the housing they can’t now. Yeah,stay at home . Yeah baby
Tourists go home . on 17:26 - Jul 28 by onehunglow
By and large Parisians are arsewioes. Rest of France is fine Great people really Try engaging them with rugby talk . South west is best ,try the Lot and Garonne,even base yourself in Toulouse or Carcassonne
Only ever travelled through and only stayed overnight once in Colmar so really cant comment on how friendly or not the French are but I am off to the Normandy area in September and by all accounts the locals are very friendly ( and in some cases grateful) for what happened there 80 years ago so looking forward to it.
"In a free society, the State is the servant of the people—not the master."
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Tourists go home . on 06:56 - Jul 29 with 505 views
Only ever travelled through and only stayed overnight once in Colmar so really cant comment on how friendly or not the French are but I am off to the Normandy area in September and by all accounts the locals are very friendly ( and in some cases grateful) for what happened there 80 years ago so looking forward to it.
I've only travelled through Caen and wondered what the feeling towards the British is like there ? We hear the feeling towards the British for helping to liberate people in Northern France is positive but I've often wondered about Caen itself, our bombers flattened it killing thousands of locals and apparently for little gain so I wonder what they think there.
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Continually being banned by Planet Swans for Porthcawl and then being reinstated.
Only ever travelled through and only stayed overnight once in Colmar so really cant comment on how friendly or not the French are but I am off to the Normandy area in September and by all accounts the locals are very friendly ( and in some cases grateful) for what happened there 80 years ago so looking forward to it.
Normandy is not small If going via Cherbourg ,St Mere d Eglise and Utah beach are worth a detour I envy you Sir
I haven't heard the William the Conqueror story before, the French hid in the Abbey in Caen because they were convinced the English would not bomb it as William the Conqueror is buried there and if they did the English crown would fall, apparently it's not a thing with the English but the French still believe it to be the case. Many historians think what we did to Caen was unnecessary and a war crime, we are always told the French are grateful for the liberation which I don't doubt for a second, but if I was a Caen resident and had family killed by the systematic flattening of the city I'm sure I would be asking myself was it necessary.
Continually being banned by Planet Swans for Porthcawl and then being reinstated.
I haven't heard the William the Conqueror story before, the French hid in the Abbey in Caen because they were convinced the English would not bomb it as William the Conqueror is buried there and if they did the English crown would fall, apparently it's not a thing with the English but the French still believe it to be the case. Many historians think what we did to Caen was unnecessary and a war crime, we are always told the French are grateful for the liberation which I don't doubt for a second, but if I was a Caen resident and had family killed by the systematic flattening of the city I'm sure I would be asking myself was it necessary.
Maybe you should be more vociferous against the Germans for starting the whole thing .If the dwarf ( what is it with midgets that they want to conquer other nations) hadn't wanted world domination perhaps the destruction of Caen wouldn't have occurred. The Germans stubbornly , even after the beach invasion, shored up its defence in the midst of civilians still living there.( todays version of Hamas)
"In a free society, the State is the servant of the people—not the master."
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Tourists go home . on 09:33 - Jul 29 with 409 views
Maybe you should be more vociferous against the Germans for starting the whole thing .If the dwarf ( what is it with midgets that they want to conquer other nations) hadn't wanted world domination perhaps the destruction of Caen wouldn't have occurred. The Germans stubbornly , even after the beach invasion, shored up its defence in the midst of civilians still living there.( todays version of Hamas)
We didn't have to flatten an allied city like that, the British conduct in the war was excellent but that along with the fire bombings and the sinking of the French fleet was amongst our low points, I can understand the fire bombings of German cities and the sinking of the French fleet but not what we did to Caen, strategic bombing ok but not flattening an allied city full of civilians.
Continually being banned by Planet Swans for Porthcawl and then being reinstated.
We didn't have to flatten an allied city like that, the British conduct in the war was excellent but that along with the fire bombings and the sinking of the French fleet was amongst our low points, I can understand the fire bombings of German cities and the sinking of the French fleet but not what we did to Caen, strategic bombing ok but not flattening an allied city full of civilians.
Our troops weren't making much headway. German resistance was great and we couldn't shift them. Not sure we had much choice.
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Tourists go home . on 09:56 - Jul 29 with 372 views
Maybe you should be more vociferous against the Germans for starting the whole thing .If the dwarf ( what is it with midgets that they want to conquer other nations) hadn't wanted world domination perhaps the destruction of Caen wouldn't have occurred. The Germans stubbornly , even after the beach invasion, shored up its defence in the midst of civilians still living there.( todays version of Hamas)
Tourists go home . on 22:20 - Jul 25 by KeithHaynes
The attitude in Spain isn’t just about tourism, housing etc. And Major R is perfectly correct.
They see the big beer bellies wobbling about the costa del sol, drunk, shirts off (that’s against the law and it’s firmly enforced in my province) fighting, spewing up and generally being a disgrace and immediately go anti British ( very few where I live know the difference between Wales and England) for example that isn’t known.
But then again and thankfully the English who behave like that aren’t in this region. There’s nothing here for them in the form of cheap lager and kebab shops on the beach. There are no pubs like Wetherspoons, they would never get planning permission.
And long may that continue.
My local beach, ten minutes away. Idiot free.
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I work with the public everyday especially tourists in the summer and find the Spanish even more so Spanish youngsters (students) by far the nicest country folk. I always find them very very polite and courteous. Italians not so.
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