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[Webby the Bear]

aaron i agree... not particularly cos theyre protesting but 300,000 french people!!!! 

[Gaffers]

I spent 5 years living Paris (self-imposed exile following the election Nuew-liebore) and if I had known you were going I could have given you some pointers.

WRT the food I disagree with many of the comment above.  Although UK cuisine has come on leaps and bounds in recent years there are some things only the french can get right.  I never once had a bad meal in Paris.  I personally am very found of oysters, indeed along with some Ricard they were the perfect hangover cure pre-rugby match.  I highly recommend Canard confit if you ever see that on the menu especially if served with garlic potatoes (pommes de terres a l'ail)  And the most memorable was a warm yet raw shoulder of beef served only with sauces and shared between 6 of us.

The french are generlly misconstrued by our stereotypes, in fact many Brits confuse the French with Parisians.  The latter being vile, disgusting, arrogant, english-hating, social psychopaths, while the former are generally very nice, friendly and like the english.  The last point is especially poingient if you make an effort to speak the lingo regardless of your sucess at doing so.

In my many years in Paris, I had a large number of french friends yet only one was from Paris.  I was his first ever English friend as the stereotypes were knocked away, oh that and his right wing Le Pen activist leanings 

[mathewst]

WRT the food I disagree with many of the comment above.  Although UK cuisine has come on leaps and bounds in recent years there are some things only the french can get right.  I never once had a bad meal in Paris.  I personally am very found of oysters, indeed along with some Ricard they were the perfect hangover cure pre-rugby match

Personally I wasn't refering to UK cuisine but to my local mediteranean.
Don't get me wrong I like Paris but it is too tiresome to be living there. Everything is big and you need a lot of time just to do normal thing like shopping for bread and milk. Although transportation is great with their subway.
Also too many ninjas now in Paris for my liking (hooded muslims). No I'm not a nationalist, racist or anything similar, just I believe if you are a foreigner you should respect the country and its customs, where you came and not try to impose your own(although you should cherrish your own if you want to, but not impose to others) .
Also one other thing, the Paris itself did deteriorate in the last few years. Was much cleaner and nicer couple of years back than this winter when I was there for the last time