Lille and the French
Last week, in my way home, I did a stop over in Lille. Don't ask. There are only direct flights twice a week and, irony, going to the north of France is just a slight detour from Italy to Portugal. One day I shall write about the hidden sins of low cost flights. Guilty. Anyway, I had time to go to the city center and have bread with raisins for breakfast in a "boulangerie". Very fancy. I was quite surprised with this cool city and shock, people were nice!
I'm totally against stereotypes but I've been a few times to Paris and I know very well how the french people are! Joking, I actually like Paris, with 10 million people the darkest hobby has its place and it's just fun to go inside a store of a calligrapher and origami maker or the like. Also, I have some friends there and obviously this makes cities much more interesting. By the way Sarah, if you're reading this, thanks for you couch. My point: Parisians, hem, are not the nicest people in world.
In Lille I was ordering breakfast and the waitress, who was very nice (and cute), double checked every thing I ordered and gave advices such as "you should take the bread with pine nuts and raisins and not the sweet bread with raisins, it's much better" or "we don't have dark chocolate for your cappuccino, do you mind the organic-fair-trade-even-better one?". Sure this became complicated after I run out of the 5 different sentences I can say in french so, shock again, she changed to not-so-good-but-with-effort english! It was just this girl! - you say. No, people were generally very nice, giving indications of where the buses were and so on. I'm not really sure what's it all about with those people doing street polls in every corner, though.
All this to say that I must twist my arm and visit some other places in France with a bit more time. On other news I heard that Belgium is claiming French Flanders back.
"My point: Parisians, hem, are not the nicest people in world."
É bom saber disso!!! deixa-te andar!! Não a sério!! é msm bom.. :P (tens noção k és um homem morto, a próxima vez k nos cruzarmos! n tens?!) =)
Se calhar mudaste-te para Portugal a tempo de seres salva...
:o é!! Sabes qts anos demorei a adaptar-me a Portugal e começar a deixar de dizer "quero voltar"? -.-' SEIS!!! p isso..
Acreditas msm k os tugas são "the nicest people of the world"??? lool ..eras tãão inoceeente qd vivias cá!! :P
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