When you go to Fance on holiday, do you feel wecome by the locals ?

It's worth pointing out that Parisians are fairly offhand with other French people, not just with foreigners.

I live in France, and feel very welcome, both at home and when I go on holiday. I lived in England a few years ago, and I would say in general the locals were probably less welcoming.

Yes until i start calling them "cheese eating surrender monkeys" for some reason they dont like me after that.

Yes,very much so, but then I make an effort to speak the language. Unlike most Brits who just shout and gesture angrily, then accuse the French of being rude...

We go quite a bit and have never felt unwelcome. As long as you make an effort to speak French. It doesn't have to be much just Hello, Please, Thank you - that sort of thing.

It's only in Paris that the locals are a bit @rsey.

Very much so, it's always a pleasure I have no experience of poor service or bad manners anywhere in France. it's always been quite the opposite. Maybe I'm just lucky but it's 20 years now since I bought my first house over there and have travelled all over the country from touring on two wheels to hitching, taxis and flying in and out of major airports. No problem

Do you speak French, then Oui

I've been visiting France for 35 years as a tourist. I've almost always been treated very nicely. One runs into the occassional idiot no matter where you go and France is no exception.

When I hear of people claiming to have been routinely treated badly by the French I have not the slightest doubt that the problem is that they are themselves idiots.

We love France, and accept that you can get some off hand people. We also experience that here in London.
If you make an effort to speak in French, the first reply is usually "Are you English?", when they start to practise their english on you.
Go to france, relax, enjoy. The French are more than willing to meet you half way.

No, never. We one went into a restaurant in Montparnasse and no sooner had we walked in the door and said "Bonjour" when the restraunteur realised we were English and shooed us out!!

no. i even got shouted at because i couldn't speak french once. I was actually trying to speak french at the time, I'm just not fluent, and this french guy started shouting at me saying how he hated the English because they refused to learn french.

I pointed out that as people such as himself can eloquently shout at me in English there is therefore no need for me to learn french, this just made him more angry.

as welcome as a dose of pox in a convent