[Jmouse007]

Don't bother... been there once and once was enough. They positively HATE Americans. We saved their butts TWICE and they still hate us. Some creative FR needs to post a picture of a monkey with a white flag.

One More thing, Charles Degal (sp?) Airport is the worst airport I have ever been in, in my entire life, and that is saying a lot.

My heart goes out to the families who lost brave GI's taking France back from the Germans... what a waste.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Judging the French based on Parisians is like judging Americans based on New Yorkers.

[Blue Ink]

We spent several weeks in Paris and the Loire Valley last year. The French couldn’t have been nicer or more helpful. And that included a trip to the emergency room.

Moreover, practically everyone spoke some English.

I don’t know how the “French hate Americans” meme got started, but in my experience, it’s not true.

[TheRhinelander]

Yeah, I curse the high command to this very day from varying from the Moltke’s plan. It would have worked. They should have simply bypassed the Belgian forts. Oh well, what they couldn’t take my gun they took by checkbook. Tee hee!

[Calvin Locke]

Had to change planes at de Gaulle one vacation, each way, and always ended up worse off, seat-wise. Not France's problem...

However, in rushing off one plane to find the gate for our final leg home, the handful of uniformed people we tried to ask in English shrugged with Gallic indifference. Granted, I could have thought to remember enough of my HS French to utter "gat un-quatre" or whatever it was.

Still...