Et maintenant le voyage a la supermarche!*

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Just back from Paris - what do you say about Paris? It’s Paris. It’s difficult whenever you go to a place which has such mythology surrounding it to experience the ‘real’ place - not the tinsel-bedecked plastic-model faux-‘culture’ hung in the window for tourists

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[alasthai]

“Hello, nice to meet you, I am fat hands.”

France is, from memory, the country which receives the highest number of foreign tourists, and so they will be well used to people who cannot speak their language, and most people are pleased about someone else making the attempt: better that you should say, "Je suis grosses mains", than, "Oh, honey, ah just got fat hands, you know?", with a broad American twang.

Tell them that you love their food, and their fashion, and do so in earnest but broken French, and they will see that you are not one of those arrogant, Anglocentric Anglophones and will love you for it.

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I really think they did! Our pathetic attempts made for a much more pleasant experience than we had last time!