France is next door to my home country and I visited it when I was a child. I used to go there when I lived in the county of Kent ever so often. I did trips, weekends away and day trips. Now I live further away from it.
I learned the French language for five years when I was at school. I know that France is the most popular country for tourism in Europe. I think that Paris is a very beautiful city. I like the French train system and how it links up with the rest of Europe.
I have visited French Polynesia and it is like a piece of France in the tropics. It has white sandy beaches with palm trees. It is a pricey destination to go to.
What do you think of France?
Have you ever been there? Would you like to visit it?
Do you know of any overseas departments of France?
[question posted by maximax8]
responses and comments:
dear maxim, it really is a very popular tourist place. i have been dreaming of one day i will be able to reach the place but there always comes a situation, so nothing happens about my dream.rofl now, i am content with just watching videos about france and pictures. happy mylotting. annhappy [tigeraunt]
Hi Max.. I've never been to France, but I hear it is a wonderful place to visit.. I hear that Paris is awesome and all along the sea coast is beautiful. I would love to visit the beaches there and watch the sun go down over the horizon. [OreoCookie3]
I have been to France many times. My first visit to France was 20 years ago when I was a teenager. My parents, my brother and I drove around in France for 2 weeks and we visited a lot of different places. I especially liked Mont San Michel, but I also enjoyed visiting other places in France. One year later we went to France again and that time my parents, brother and I travelled with some friends and their children. We had a very good time. Part of the time we stayed in an apartment in Alsace, and the rest of the time we drove around and visited different places. At that time I hadn't studied French at school, but I managed to learn some French words while we were travelling. My father is good at French and he was the one who talked to the staff for the hotels, the waiters, the shop assistents etc. In the 9th grade I started studying French, and when I visited France with a friend I was finally able to communicate with the locals. I have been to Paris 3 times. I have been there with there with my family and in 1999 I went there with a friend. I have alteady visited many of the famous sights, but I would still like to visit Paris again one day. [Porcospino]
My colleague visits France, Paris every summer. She takes her whole family to visit Euro Disneyland and her 6 year old loves it a lot. She has learned how to travel on her own using the metro and despite that French language is not her forte she has managed to do quite well there. I have seen a lot of beautiful museum photos. France seems to be rich in history and culture. Though food seems really expensive there.! [ronaldinu]
Hi there! I haven't been in France but I wish I could go there someday. Based from what I saw in TV it is such a romantic place. Fresh air and beautiful scenery are one of the reasons why people visit there. [Niah1976]
I've been to Paris 3 times and traveled with train once to Grenoble. I really liked my last visit to Paris, it was some years ago when I studied so I visited a friend of mine who took her 4. year in Paris at the same time as I took my 4. year in Vienna. It was nice to be there with someone who knew how to find interesting things of the beaten track for the tourists, because Paris is a bit too filled with people for my taste. Grenoble was also nice, I was there with my class from university so we traveled to a nuclear a power plant (it was an excursion, partly paid from the university so we had to do some serious stuff) and some quite nice but chilly caves. I'd like to go back but it's not on my top list, but an Austrian friend of mine just started to work there. She'll stay for 3 years so I might go to visit her at some point. [Torunn]
I love visiting france, have been to Paris several times, camped and stayed in gites in western France. My most memorable visit was when I attended a relative's wedding in the English church in Maisons-Lafitte, where a number of English resistance heroes are immortalised with plaques. Afterwards we drove in a honking convoy four miles to the reception at St Germain en Laye, wher we stayed the night. in the morning we walked the gorunds of the nearby chateau, which was the German HQ for Paris in the last war. There is a long terrace with just magical views over the city and the River Seine. I've also been to Morocco where most people spoke French as well as Arabic and English. [jakill]
Well max..I would really like to travel to France. But the worst case is,I don't usually get a vacation now a days.I have to earn for my family now. And overtime is just killing me.By the way..don't worry.In my dreams, I went to France a lot of times.HA HA...Take care [skeletor69]
I have been studying french for several years now, but still I can't really get into it. I think France like many coutries in europe has his own style and beauty so it will be worth visiting, for that reason it's on my list. But for what I've heard and according to some of my past experiences with french people, I can tell that french are not very friendly, they don't speak good english and expect you to speak french well, if you don't they will probably be mocking you orgive you an hard time if you try to speak french. [freeboy90]
I think of France just as you do I really don't speak France but I really wish I did. I am hoping that maybe one day I can get a chance to visit it because I haven't yet. I do not know of any overseas departments of France. So I am sorry about that. [chicago207]
I have flown into France twice as I was flying Air France and had to have it as a destination on my round the world air ticket. happy We were originally going to spend a week in Paris, but as we heard it was very expensive there and our funds were getting low, we decided to change the itinerary while we were in the USA and just went there as a stopover between New York and London and London and Beijing. We never left the airport which was a shame. Might have to go back again one day! [RawBill1]
yes my dear i don't know more about france but i know the wonder thing that france is a alone country where mosquito is not found so dear i want to ask a question if mean there is viral fever ? [satya4186]
yes i know one thing about france that mosquito is not found in france and i want to something more about france can you tell me something about france. [satya4186]
Hi Maxine! I don't know of any overseas departments of France, myself. I love Paris, though! That was one of my favorite cities that we visited when we went to Europe in 1973. I would give anything if I could go back. I don't know if I ever will, though, because of my income. Who knows? Something may happen and I may get to go after all. Kathy. [cyrus123]
I am primarily French/German. so I love France, what do they say you can take the Frenchman out of France, but you cannot take France out of the Frenchman. France still has little pockets all over the World that speak French and keep up the Culture as I like to think I do. Akaroa is the French Colony in new Zealand, beautiful and truly French. Then there are French Canadians, French Polynesian, Nwew Hebridians, the Channel Isles Guernsey and Jersey. I need to brush up on my French so I opened an online Store and sell french fashion. Mandybeau [mandybeau]
The second I saw your name, I thought you were French. Bonjour. USA has pockets of French, too. Some Acadians and some Cajuns. [writersedge]
i have never been to France. But i hear it is a beautifull place to visit, and that Parirs is awesome and all along with the beautiful sea coast. I will love to visit the beaches there , i can watch the sun and go down the horizon. [xxlost]
I have always dreamed of going to France. It has to be the most romantic country in the world. Some say the French are rude but I totally disagree. There are rude people all over the world. I took French in school and was introduced to many beautiful things of the French culture such as museums. [sender621]
I believe it is a beautiful and sophisticated country and the people as well. I will visit France it my financial resources would allow me to. [adoremay]
France is place where there are good beaches, good shopping expeditions and nice people. [mimiang]
I went to France when I was in school, too. I think France was fine, but my school was daft. We went to see Catherdral after cathedral. Other than the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, and Louis the whatever teenth place, we didn't get to see much besides huge churches. We went for a drive to a country place and what did we see in the country? Another Cathedral. For a public school, you would have thought we were in a Catholic one. I think 2 catherdrals would have been fine not 5 or whatever number it was we went to see (maybe 6). I would have liked to have seen cheese being made or to go to a perfumery. I enjoyed the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre. I would have liked to have done more uniquely France kinds of things. They gave us vouchers to eat at horrible dives that didn't even cook the food, we had to keep going back and saying well done and they still just put it on the grill and filled it over, gave it back to us. The last night, we finally ate at a restaurant. I would have liked to have eaten at a street side cafe or at a variety of places. France's version of fast food restaurants turned my stomach and I NEVER want to go to one again. The restaurant was incredible. I loved that. The same continental breakfast every day for two weeks at the place we were staying was a bit much. They could at least change the juice or the jelly or something. I liked their verson of hot chocolate, no sugar, salt, etc. You can't over do that. By the time you're done that one cup, you're happy to be done. I think in America we put way too much of everything addictive into stuff and therefore we can't stop eating or drinking it. [writersedge]
t indeed is a very popular tourist destination and I dream of going there! Good for you, you had the chance to be near that poetic country. I just hope that in the future I would be given the chance to even just visit the place. My husband's been to Europe several times but he only reached the ports lol... [keisey]
LOL. The first thing that comes to my mind is the acronym "Friendship remains and never can end". This was something I used to see in autographs usually at our graduating years for primary education. I have long forgotten about it until the phrase resurface in the local newspaper on 14 Feb, Valentine's day. [whyaskq]
blinkI have never been to France. My mother has and she loved it. She went with a tour group so there was someone that could speak French. I can't and I think that would be a problem. Also I am an American and I think the French people hate us! Well, probably most of the world does. If they do and were speaking French, I wouldn't have a clue what they were saying about "the ugly American". [cerebellum]
we did a 5 nation tour in 1968 and in NO place were the people more rude than Paris I think the ONLY nice Frenchman we met was their version of a hotdog vendor, and even then we didn't share a word of the same language... [ElicBxn]
I asked my brother-in-law, who had toured Europe while in a singing group, if the people in England were snobby. That wasn't my own opinion, I had been listening to someone talk about Great Britain as a whole. Anyway, he said they weren't snobby at all. Without any prompting he said if I wanted to see snobby, I should go to France. That they take it to a new level. And that from his own experience, they didn't like Americans much either. [AmbiePam]
In Europe France has a special place. It has a great cultural background. Many world famous painters born in France. Today also France is the heaven for the painters. I heard the French girls are more faster than the girls of other countries of Europe. In Indian subcontinent the British and the French colonists came almost at the same time. But the Britons overpowered the French. Otherwise India would be a French colony.It was India that changed the fate of the British Empire. Yes I have a wish to visit French and also Britain. [bhanusb]
When I was a child, I would have loved to go to France. Now, you couldn't pay me to go there. [AmbiePam]
well, that's strange, what happened to my response? [ElicBxn]
I was there and it was beautiful, but the people were not terrible friendly... [dawnald]
Is it true that the "French" DON'T like to BATHE regularly?? [ziyadahinc212]
im glad coz you've been there, France is one of my dream country to visit with. i wish to go to france someday as i wanted to see those amazing work of arts from famous artist. i want to see those architectural design and paintings. i have cousin there so i know it will not be hard for me to get visa but the only problem is money. so i will going to save money little by little so i can go there someday. [homeshoppers]