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I also went on european tour in high school. England was nice. Spain was amazing- I was treated very nicely and the facilities were clean (this was in Madrid). I also spent time in Italy. I was treated fairly there as well. France was a disaster. They treated me like I had the plague, and mind you I was following their little rules, speaking in French and being respectful. Everything was filthy, they call a hole in the ground with a roll of TP next to it a toilet. I would also like to know who determined France to be a center of high culture? I think culture starts with politeness and follows up with hygeine.
And when people came into Subway with a French accent when I worked there, I treated them no differently than any other customer. They got their sandwich just like everyone else. Who knows why its too much for me to expect the same when I am there? To be rude to (respectful) foreigners is the definition of LOW culture.
Its too bad, because the French countryside was quite picturesque.
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