Pushy French are world's worst tourists: study

[Kirsten]

Every time there were foreign people at work, almost nobody wanted to talk to them.

In France they would ignore you if you were not trying to speak French even if they spoke English.

I have to agree. My cousin is married to a French guy (lives in Avignon), and when she's here for a visist (which doesn't happen very often), both her husband and her daughter wouldn't speak a single word, even though they understand some German (in fact, her daughter was raised bilingual, but the girl refuses to speak German, or even English).

Kirsten, about Germans acting loud and silly, I have often seen them doing this on the ski slopes but they were young and in groups. That's why we can see there are Germans around

That doesn't surprise me! LOL

About tips, French are not used to give them because in France the price includes everything, you don't have to add a tip. We do it at restaurants when we are happy but the tip remains small and we don't have to do it.

It's the same in Germany. We're not used to it (except for restaurants, and there, it's freely).


Kirsten