Tourists Flee ‘Nightmare’ Paris Amid Rising Theft, Assaults, Terror

Tourists from China are avoiding France amid surging violence and crime, a Chinese tourism expert has said, reporting that customers are turning to Russia as a safer destination. President of the Chinese Association of Travel Agencies in France, Jean-François Zhou, said “increasingly violent” thefts and assaults are turning France into “one of the worst destinations for foreign tourists”.

"The only site I ever wanted to see in France was Agincourt."

When I visited England, I was looking forward to touring the "War of the Roses" and "English Civil War" battlefields, imagining that they would be similar to the Civil War battlefields that I'd visited here in the States.

Needless to say, I was greatly disappointed. For the most part, other than possibly a marker indicating that such-and-such happened on the site, there was no way to look at the terrain and visualize what occurred. Way too much development or terrain alteration had occurred to even be able to do so. Very few of the "battlefields" even had anything like a building or visitor's center .. or even a kiosk .. that offered anything to assist in "visiting the battlefield". Even finding a guidebook to cover it adequately was almost impossible.

Maybe I was expecting too much .. having visited Gettysburg, Shiloh, Chickamauga, and Bull Run on several occasions, along with a myriad of other smaller Civil War battlefields .. but I would expect that Agincourt probably would fall into he same disappointing category of those British battlefields. I may very well be wrong, but, all-in-all, I would assume that probably only Normandy and a few other major WWI and WWII battlefields would provide the same type of battlefield visualization.

The article does not mention whom is committing the brazen crime but we all know.

Mentioning who the criminals are is RACISM.

Fearing these criminals is RACISM.

Avoiding these criminals is RACISM.

Pointing all this out (as I am doing here) is (by definition though not by intent): RACISM.

If you don’t lay down on your stomach and submit to getting BF’d and you don’t willingly give up all your possessions without a whimper... why, I don’t have to tell you... that’s RACISM.

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