FRANCE BEHAVING BADLY
Just when I had said things were getting better..... A friend in NZ was telling me about cases of Japanese tourists going into shock over their treatment when in France...bad manners, rude taxi drivers, waiters who yell, shop assistants who make you feel uncomfortable as soon as you enter "their" shop, etc. To be honest, I kind of " pooh poohed" her (sorry MJ!) because I was rather convinced things were on the mend vis a vis attitudes to clients. I really did believe that it was finally understood that " the client is king." WRONG!! Today this thick-skinned desperateanglohousewife was reduced to tears. I joke not!! Firstly let me tell you a bit about the Japanese tourist dilemma. Did some research and what I found quite frankly horrified me. Of the one million or so Japanese who visit Paris every year, a dozen or so tourists a year have to be repatriated from the French capital, suffering from what's become known as "Paris s