[Leica] Seen In New Orleans

[nickbroberts at yahoo.co.uk (Nick Roberts)]

Paris has changed a lot over the last 20 years - or rather Parisians have. 
Sure they took a long time to forgive the US and Britain for liberating 
France, but that's national pride - we would probably all think a little 
like that in their shoes. And they've never liked US cultural imperialism, 
as defined by Hollywood and Macdonalds, preferring their own rather more 
highbrow alternatives. Don't blame 'em. That used to extend to the use of 
English, but these days, these Internet days, many actually prefer to speak 
English. If US tourists aren't made to feel welcome now, it's either as a 
result of antipathy towards the current administration, or far more likely 
because the tourists themselves are behaving boorishly. That the French 
cannot stand, and who can blame them. Paris isn't my favourite city, but 
that's because I've had to go there too many times for work; however, it is 
a beautiful and fascinating one, and the inhabitants are much the same as 
those of any other capital city - too rushed to be really polite, but 
generally decent people. And some of the best shops stuffed with Leicas I've 
ever seen!

Nick

----- Original Message ----
From: Walt Johnson <walt@waltjohnson.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 28 February, 2007 8:07:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Seen In New Orleans


Paris is the most amazing place in the world.(not that I've seen that 
many places)  But the natives seemed much more inclined to take care of 
German tourists than American ones  and this seemed puzzling.  Perhaps I 
expected more because my father spent a year in a German POW camp after 
trying to liberate Paris. His father did some time in the trenches circa 
1917/18 for the same reason.  Go figure?

Walt


Steve Unsworth wrote:
> Gotta disagree with that Walt, Paris is the finest place I've ever lived.
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> Steve
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> On 28/2/07 01:56, "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote:
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>> But just as the French go out of
>> their way to spoil Paris...
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