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Quote: Originally posted by Val A on 28/6/2016

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Quote: Originally posted by Campernic on 28/6/2016

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To be honest I don't ever think the French were that crazy about the English anyway.

It was in 2004 I visited and witnessed differences in the way I was treated, as a Northern Irish person, to the way my English camping neighbours were.

They always seemed to be served last, kept hanging about longest etc etc and at one point I suggested they take off the UK sticker from their car. They seemed to lump me in with the 'Irish', not understanding I suppose the complexities of Northern Irelands relationship with the UK etc.

Then I moved to a 'bells and whistles' campsite with pool and witnessed first hand that 'English' behaviour that puts the French off people in the UK, and then I saw their point lol.

My sister and her family witnessed exactly the same phenomenon on a separate occasion, and one of the things my Brother in law observed that in a queue, the UK people weren't willing to engage with the French language at all, coming across as if that was beneath them. He, on the other hand, gave it a go and the efforts were appreciated even if they weren't that successful, and as a result got ushered in to one attraction completely free of charge.

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This is a very big, and not very complimentary generalisation, about people from 'the UK'and one that we have never experienced in France inall our thirty-odd years of holidaying there. We've always been treated in a friendly manner and never felt marginalised because we were English. We now have a holiday home in southern France, and our French neigbours have made us very welcome indeed.

Personally, I would doubt that French people have any idea about whereabouts in Britain you come from - generally they have difficulty in determining one accent from another and in most situations they wouldn't know whereabouts you actually come from unless you tell them.

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