France

Lyon. Marseille. Nice. Bordeaux. Nancy. Strasbourg. Metz. Toulouse. All major cities, and all have plenty to see and do.

Seduce sensuous, handsome Frenchmen.

Cannes is gorgeous.

Drink wine and eat cheese.

You're absolutely right, OP: there's nothing much to do in France. And the food is awful, and there's so little of it -- you leave the restaurant almost as hungry as you went in.

You should vacation in Florida again this year, trust.

Gorgeous countryside with scores of wonderful towns and small cities, too. Ancient castles and churches, markets and ports, museums and gardens...I watch the coverage of the Tour de France (wrapping up in a few days) and wish I could afford the time and expense of taking a month and driving around the country. I loved Paris, but that's all I've ever seen.

Well if they don't got no Golden Corral, I ain't going

Rouen is beautiful, anywhere in the Dordogne is worth a visit.

Bordeaux, Rennes and Aix-en-Provence are all lovely and have all the facilities you'd expect in a French city. So do Marseilles and Nice, but they have some problems. Paris is tough to live in. Very expensive, the apartments are tiny, the climate is nasty and you are forced to use the Metro, which is now risky. Also, the only real reason to live there is to work. However, you do meet people in Paris you wouldn't meet anywhere else. For traveling, just about all of France is rewarding.

My favorite little city to visit is Annecy, Haute-Savoie, just 25 miles from Geneva. There are lots of outdoor activity to be had along the lake and surrounding hills. The culture and cuisine is very similar to the Swiss Romande.

Then I think R7 would enjoy an all-expenses-paid trip to Bentonville, Arkansas.

France has some nice places. Cap D'Agde is wonderful

What do the teenage boys do in a nudest colony? Serious question. There’s no hiding that.

You need to get out more, OP. There's plenty to do: Get blown up, stabbed, raped, driven into, mugged, maimed, acided, shot... the list goes on.

Yes, you are right R14, OP should stay in a country like the USA with its minimal violence and low murder rate.

I shit in Spain

I shit in France....

OP is wearing a #MAGA ball cap as he types.

OP still calls french fries "freedom fries."

You're mostly correct, outside of Paris, there isn't much. Paris, like Buenos Aires and Bangkok is one of the primate cities in the world.

There are some other decent sized cities in France, but none come close to being a second city of France, like Los Angeles is (and Chicago was) to the US or Montreal is to Canada, or Glascow, Manchester, Birmingham is in the UK.

Even the southeast coast of France is more renowned for the independent city-state of Monaco than the largest city there Marseilles.

So says the primate from Bumfuck, Iowa, from her double-wide.

Love France and the French. I wish I could say I've seen all I want to of the country, but only Paris and a few side trips so far, one while studying in London and another with a family group. Weirdly, on both trips I had flings with Germans.

The only places where I've had the pleasure of Frenchmen were in Key West and Dublin, of all places.

[quote]I shit in Spain I shit in France.... —what else is there to do ??

Shit in Germany, and shit in Austria.

It depends what you like to do during your holiday, I recommande Brittany, the food is good, invented the salted butter caramel, the climat is not that bad, and there is plenty of British tourists, so people are used to english speaker. Other wise I am from the North of France, where we have similar architecture as Flander, and the stinkiest cheeses you can find (I think only a corsican cheese manage to stink more) but once you remove the "croute", it's actually very good, it's Vieux Lille and Maroilles. Otherwise we also have Corsica, with beautiful coasts, the food is also very good, especially the charcuterie (you're not vegetarian, right? because we don't cater for those people) and there is no huge buildings because the locals make sure nobody "for the continent" buy a place here, if needed they bomb it. It's similar to Sardaigna.

[quote]Paris, like Buenos Aires and Bangkok is one of the primate cities in the world.

Are London and New York marsupial cities?

[quote] Other than Paris, located in the far north of the country, there are no other major cities in France.

OP, Lyon has a metropolitan area of 2,200,000, and Marseilles has 1,800,000. What the fuck are you talking about?

Marseilles? Isn't that in North Africa?

OP Is a troll. Doesn’t anybody else see that?

OP = le troll.

Is Lille a nice city to visit? It is close by to Belgium, NL, Luxembourg, and Germany.

I quite like Montpellier and Nimes.

OP: Stick to Orlando.

Obviously not, R24! But Sydney is.

OP's easy peasy troll really got you all going.

[quote] "Other than Paris, located in the far north of the country..."

Have you SEEN a map of France, OP?

I would put on some huge sunglasses and take a trip to Monaco (after Paris).

Monte Carlo is BORING AS FUCK with nothing to do. Except watch rich vulgar people. I love it.

The problem with France is that Paris sets the bar up so high it makes all the other major French cities seem super dull and charmless in comparison. As someone above already stated, it's the French countryside that's the main draw outside of Paris, with all those ancient abbey, cute villages and chateaus.

I loved Nice. I also hit Monte Carlo, but I don't gamble. So, I liked my time in Nice better and would recommend. I would have liked to have taken a day trip over to San Tropez. I guess there is always some other time.

* Saint Tropez. Brain is absolutely fried today.

R37 châteaux

R38 Saint-Tropez

R40 Merci beaucoup! Je suis rouillé.

I would love to see quaint little villages...bucolic scenery. I love the countryside. I wouldn't need anything fancy or glitzy to entertain me. My favorite trips involved looking at the scenery along the way. I was in Paris. That's all I've seen of France.

R42 yes it's lovely in summer but so is Ireland, England, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and Italy, too : ). And New England USA

All of the above R43. So many places to travel...

I would add the Pacific Northwest, Southwest and other Western states, too.

Life is where you make it. If you can't get to the French countryside, go explore the lovely countryside near you.

^^True...