Is France worth visiting nowadays or is it all garbage?Was thinking that Paris might be a cesspool of shit but other cities might be cool.Also, how much French does one need to know?
>>2731269>Is France worth visiting nowadays or is it all garbage?The garbage part is mainly central Paris, elsewhere is less shit. Regardless, still worth a visit. Nothing wrong with checking off a bucket list item, and you can brag about having survived Paris.>Also, how much French does one need to know?Practically zero in a major city. French people are such cunts that they don't even want you to bother. They would much rather speak the language of their enemy than hear you butchering their language.Rural areas and minor cities are different story, however.
>>2731269I went to Paris in 2022. It's my least favorite major city I've ever been to. The Eiffel Tower is cool to look at for like five minutes. But it's boring after that and the line to get in to get close to it is miles long. There's also a shit ton of hustlers that are within a two mile radius of the area. There's some famous pieces of artwork and architecture around the city, but I'm not really into artsy stuff. The most fun I had was renting an electric scooter and just hopping around the city, but you can do that anywhere. Just my personal experience, but I saw three homeless guys just randomly shouting on street corners when I was there. Also, a couple "urban youths" kept the turnstile open for me to go through while I was taking the metro, which was honestly pretty cool of them. And yeah, basically no one speaks or is willing to speak English in Paris. Learn some French or at least have a power charger for your phone so you can use Google translate.
>>2732095Ratatouille!
We did a wine tour road trip a few years ago in Provence and it was great. We hit Nimes, Arles, Aix, Avignon, Cassis and a couple villages. The food is amazing. The beach towns were gorgeous. The wine was the best I've ever had. I'd definitely recommend it for a summer/spring/fall trip. If you're going in the winter, go to Chamonix and do Annecy and a couple villages in the valley. Chamonix is the best ski town I've ever been to.
Skip Paris and go to some nice regions elsewhere. France has it all, really, but it depends on what you seek and the time of the year you will visit. Are you more into sight seeing? Historic monuments? Old churches and castles? Wine? Kino villages? Biking? Hiking? Going to the beach? Visit a city?For the language, just say "bonjour" to people and "merci" that will be more than enough.
>>2731269I understand why non-europeans might flock to this place. But almost everything France has, I have at home.
>>2732481That's a big home
>>2731269Frog from Alsace here.I can at least recommend Alsace, it's a pretty part of France and overall quite safe compared to the rest of the country. I can recommend Colmar, Eguisheim, Kaysersberg, Riquewihr, Ribeauvillé, and the nearby lakes and mountains. It gets pretty crowded in the winter because of our Christmas Markets, people from all around the world come to visit at this time of the year. Europa Park is right across the border if that's something you're into, one of the best theme park in the world for sure.If you're into big cities, Strasbourg is beautiful and relatively safe compared to other shithole big French cities, but don't ask for too much.As to Paris, I'd only recommend spending 2/3 days to visit the main sights if your plane lands/takes off from there. Don't interact with scammers, migrants, don't carry more than 50€ in cash, be extremely careful with your belongings at all time, if your bank allows it then temporarily disable contactless payment on your credit card, that's in case you fail at my previous advices and get it stolen from you... Be especially careful in public transit and touristy areas.With France, as with most Western European countries, the rule is that big cities are for the most part shitholes that you should avoid or be careful when visiting them.Smaller cities are either okay or okayish.Countryside & villages are beautiful, cozy and safe.
I was in Paris about a decade ago.I liked the city enough, but it didn't blow me away.You should do it to cross it off your checklist.Eiffel Tower and Louvre are great, but there's way too many scammers and trinket peddlers in the former, and way too many lines and chink tourists with smartphones in the latter. Like having to waddle through a crowd of chink retards just to see the Mona Lisa wasn't enjoyable. I wanted to enjoy the artwork and arqueology stuff but you can't because it's full of retards that just want to take a picture of the painting they aren't even looking at it, ultimate NPC behaviour.
Paris is worth it at least once in your life, but as other anons have said countryside and smaller cities are the best. You can go almost anywhere and have wonderful food outside next to a cobblestone street. Of the places I have been to, I recommend Lille, Metz, Reims, St. Paul De Vence, Colmar, and Nice.
>>2732471This, you should first ask yourself what kind of stuff you're into, since French regions are varied enough to proposed very different experiences.
>>2731269I visited Paris before the fire that broke out at Notre Dame's spire burnt down. So it may be worth it because you'll never know what you can lose.
>>2731269Paris only has a bad reputation because tourists head straight to the Eiffel Tower, and let me tell you the only redeeming feature of that neighborhood is the immigrants in the park selling shoplifted hard liquor that you can drink to forget the stink, the filth, and the rats. The tower was meant to be viewed from a distance in 1887 and it’s meant to be viewed from a distance today.Any other neighborhood in central Paris is charming, charming. Montmartre, isle du Paris, Latin quarter, everything. I first visited Paris in 1999, backpacked there solo in 2022 and had such a great fucking time. Smoothbrains from /pol/ who get offended when a Senegalese tries to scalp them a counterfeit louvre ticket go home and cry about the experience online. Good; that means less other tourists to bother me next time I visit.Contemporary culture is fucking cool too. If you don’t vibe with the ultramodern art displays all over the city, you can at least appreciate kids doing parkour in the streets and the graffiti art.
