Paris is ok, worth going for a short break. France in General is quite stinky and dirty, so be prepared. Once you adjust you can see its good points. x
Paris is ok, worth going for a short break. France in General is quite stinky and dirty, so be prepared. Once you adjust you can see its good points. x
It's true about the dog mess but funnily enough I didn't pick up any nasty whiffs.
I really want to go to Paris one day but my boyfriends been before and absolutely hates it and said it was filthy and stunk. Although he could be biased, hes polish and hates the French
I have difficulty getting my head around some of you people, if France doesn't appeal, that's fine, don't go there.
Christ knows what the story is with your boyfriend, I've been to many places in France, none of them smelled bad, none of them were filthy.
The French were fine with me, of course it helps that I have a quite reasonable handle on the language.
I've also been to Poland, nothing wrong with that, Warsaw was exciting, Poznan was good to walk around, Kraków was a bit overdone with tourists, but if the place stunk, no one would ever go there, it didn't stink.
Is there a reason, real or imaginary, why your boyfriend hates the French?
I could kind of understand an elderly person, whose country got trashed by the Germans during WW2, not liking Germans, or an older ex-serviceman who was captured by the Japanese, not liking the Japanese, but I know of no contre-temps between Poland and France which would support such hatred.
When I lived in Bordeaux, the lady who showed me round the town apologised and said 'les crottes de chien' were a big problem. They do not have the same attitude as we do about picking up after their dogs. It's so noticeable to me when I go to France as you see so little anymore over here as most people pick up.
I really want to go to Paris one day but my boyfriends been before and absolutely hates it and said it was filthy and stunk. Although he could be biased, hes polish and hates the French
If he's been there before he knows the price of a coffee/wine/meal.
He's not biased, he's smart and doesn't want to blow his dosh on you.
As for litter, I've only been to Le Havre a couple of times but it was a shithole.
You've not really seen the best of France by only going to Le Havre, which is a typical port town. If you get out into the countryside and further South its a beautiful country (and huge!).
To be fair you can walk through london and notice a bit of a pong sometimes in places. You will get a bit of a stink occasionally in an area so densely populated with millions of people as a city. so its not just paris that might stink a bit
Considering the cliché of Parisian streets being completely full of dog mess, I was lucky that I only encountered it once. I didn't realise I had to explain it
love France, no less clean than here...just someone tell the feckers we give way to cars on a roundabout not the other way round ..youtube cars on arch de triumph to get what I mean
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"Romantic Paris" Oh yes I remember it well ...... Not
No they don't - she is wrong and is judging her fellow Poles by her own prejudices.
It's true about the dog mess but funnily enough I didn't pick up any nasty whiffs.
we went to the Loire Valley, there were piles of sh1t along most of the country roads.
It wasn't the dogs, unless they've been trained to use toilet paper
The whiff starts at Calais and I ain't talking about the camps there either.
Good for the roses.
I have difficulty getting my head around some of you people, if France doesn't appeal, that's fine, don't go there.
Christ knows what the story is with your boyfriend, I've been to many places in France, none of them smelled bad, none of them were filthy.
The French were fine with me, of course it helps that I have a quite reasonable handle on the language.
I've also been to Poland, nothing wrong with that, Warsaw was exciting, Poznan was good to walk around, Kraków was a bit overdone with tourists, but if the place stunk, no one would ever go there, it didn't stink.
Is there a reason, real or imaginary, why your boyfriend hates the French?
I could kind of understand an elderly person, whose country got trashed by the Germans during WW2, not liking Germans, or an older ex-serviceman who was captured by the Japanese, not liking the Japanese, but I know of no contre-temps between Poland and France which would support such hatred.
Collect it up and sell it.
He's not biased, he's smart and doesn't want to blow his dosh on you.
You spotted dog shite so you were lucky?
You've not really seen the best of France by only going to Le Havre, which is a typical port town. If you get out into the countryside and further South its a beautiful country (and huge!).
Considering the cliché of Parisian streets being completely full of dog mess, I was lucky that I only encountered it once. I didn't realise I had to explain it
I've been to France more times than I can count, and I have yet to see one of these "hole in the ground" toilets.
I only saw them once and that was at a 'toilet only' service area in Brittany.
The street markets are excellent as well...... not like the crappy ones over here.
That's ridiculous. All the motorway "Aires" other than those with petrol stations are holes in the ground. Disabled facilities tend to be normal.
You couldn't have traveled much when you got there then.
It's a traffic circle, not a roundabout