Accckkk!!!!

[wondergirl9847]

Originally Posted by madformac

London can be expensive but it's my favorite Euro city. ( You guys get a crap exchange rate too which doesn't help)

Paris...(they still have an anti-American feeling from Iraq too)

London...in winter...cold and rainy. I loved it for the most part, unless it got really crazy, but it never really did. Umbrellas are annoying though. LOL I am so frickin' ready to get back to London, I wanna spit! Next year, I hope to be coming back around this time, my birthday.

Paris, yeah, don't think I'll be going to France ANYTIME soon.

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by madformac

Amsterdam... Chill out city...

London can be expensive but it's my favorite Euro city. ( You guys get a crap exchange rate too which doesn't help)

Greece will be warm and cheap but it's kinda boring, scenery wise..

Paris of course is the capital of France and apart from the South of France I've always been the victim of rudeness (They hate the English and vice versa I think), But, France from a scenery point of view is stunning, just don't expect to be treated with respect (they still have an anti-American feeling from Iraq too)

How anti-American are they feeling? We were actually thinking of Paris first but we are open to other cities. London is the one place over there that my roommate has been to. I have been to Amsterdam but it was for work so I saw hardly anything and would love to go again. Maybe we'll go there! The winters there are pretty mild if I remember correctly, especially compared to New England.

[madformac]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

How anti-American are they feeling? We were actually thinking of Paris first but we are open to other cities. London is the one place over there that my roommate has been to. I have been to Amsterdam but it was for work so I saw hardly anything and would love to go again. Maybe we'll go there! The winters there are pretty mild if I remember correctly, especially compared to New England.

I think the Anti-American feeling is quite strong, the French opposed the Iraq "liberation" but are now quick enough to want their contractors involved in the rebuild of the country I disagreed with the reasons for going into Iraq but from the information I read it seems France had a nice agreement over oil with Saddam so they are a bit pissed still... But I wouldn't not go just because some locals might (will!) be rude because it's a place you must see at least once. The countryside is really nice.

New England winters.... haha, yes every year I dread Miami going in to face the Patriots and floundering in the snow...

[Janet]

I have been to Amsterdam 6 years running and it's a fun city. Lots of clubs and places to go. In April it's chilly ( 50's) so I can imagine their winters...I guess compared to New England anything seems mild, even New Jersey. Mari would know...

Paris was fine for me. I don't know French and I felt fine. It gets FREEZING there. I was there in February and it was 20 degrees everyday. Maybe that was rare but I told myself that Paris only in spring! No fun climbing the Eiffel Tower in snow LOL.

London, I want to go back there because that's fun. I had someone to stay with so it's alot cheaper.

That's all I have been to though. So many more cities to explore! You are so lucky SuzeQuze you can go!

[Mari]

Pretty mild usually, we only had one week of snow this winter, and that was in March..
Same climate as London, I think. And just as fun

[BTFLCHLD]

play syw on repeat...works like a charm

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by madformac

I think the Anti-American feeling is quite strong, the French opposed the Iraq "liberation" but are now quick enough to want their contractors involved in the rebuild of the country I disagreed with the reasons for going into Iraq but from the information I read it seems France had a nice agreement over oil with Saddam so they are a bit pissed still... But I wouldn't not go just because some locals might (will!) be rude because it's a place you must see at least once. The countryside is really nice.

New England winters.... haha, yes every year I dread Miami going in to face the Patriots and floundering in the snow...

Ah yes, warm climate wussies against the cold climate bad asses.

[amber]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

BTW, my roommate and I are thinking of going to Europe for New Years, where should we go in your opinion?

Italy, duh. Oh, wait, I guess you didn't ask me. Anyway, I choose Italy/Greece/Spain.

[amber]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

Ah yes, warm climate wussies against the cold climate bad asses.

Yeah, I'll watch you melt all over the sidewalk when the temp hits 100, "bad ass"

[tuigirl]

[QUOTE=madformac



Paris of course is the capital of France and apart from the South of France I've always been the victim of rudeness (They hate the English and vice versa I think), But, France from a scenery point of view is stunning, just don't expect to be treated with respect (they still have an anti-American feeling from Iraq too)[/QUOTE]


You'll be ok, if you try and speak a bit of French and/or pass as a French person, by being totally fluent! Speak English and you can forget it!
Yeah, I can recommend Florence ..based on my one and only visit there, a few years back..it's lovely.

[GODDESS6]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

Ugh. Annoying whistling/humming guy at work has found a website that contains EVERY national anthem in the world apparently...


He's got the BLARING from his computer...what's worse? He's singing along with some of them...

I'm highly annoyed at the moment. Ugh.

Just thought I'd share.

i USED 2 wrk w/ this VERY religious guy, not sure what religion, & i am NOT knocking religion here, but he would sit @ his desk w/ his hymns playing, praying outloud so loudly, & i wear a cresent moon like stevie & he used 2 say it gave me a black heart~ i have no idea what he meant i never bothered him & was the only 1 who never mad fun of him~ but 2 this day i hear he is still praying & singing & his desk~

[Mari]

how about people talking to themselves?

< complain >
The colleague I shared my room with today, started out with a coveted racist slur about another colleague (grrr) , and then as usual she's been talking to herself on a level I can just hear for the rest of the day.
Some more of those negative remarks about various people, just in a way that you don't realise what she's saying until 5 minutes later. But it's always the other people who make mistakes, never her. You can't tell her about a mistake she makes anyway because she'll go mad. And she's very chaotic so there have been plenty of things gone wrong!
Oh, and she's the type to complain to the bosses that the rest of us aren't nice enough to her. All so indirect and manipulative, I hate that.
I got along really great with the other woman I share this room with, but it's not likely she'll come back (recent bancruptcy of part of the company).

< / complain >

[tynan88]

I know Australians in France have to clarify they are Australians are the French are really cold to them, but once they realise you are Australian it is okay.

[tuigirl]

Originally Posted by Lux

You could just use the ol' Canadian flag on your bag thing.

oh yes! good thinking, but you need to say your'e from the FRENCH part of Canada..you know Celine Dion territory and all that...they like those ones!!!

I was generally classed as "Australian" for 15 years..most of them had no clue whatsoever where NZ was!....."Pres d'Australie" was always a fav term for me....

[chiliD]

Originally Posted by tuigirl

oh yes! good thinking, but you need to say your'e from the FRENCH part of Canada..you know Celine Dion territory and all that...they like those ones!!!

REALLY?!? That's surprising. When I was up in Canada (a 1/4 century ago), I remember people complaining that they got treated really poorly and snobbishly by the French people. (Apparently, the Canadian French language is more than just subtly different dialect than European French...snobbishly looked down upon by the Parisian French). At least, that's what I was told.