1800 in France

I never got welcome SMS's. I did from BT when I used their prepay sim, course it was in French! When I registered on BASE and Proximus near Germany/Belgium I got a welcome SMS from Base in English Of course, BASE and Prox were weak (at least 3-4 miles from the Belgian/LB border, though we tried to walk to Luxembourg....we went in the wrong direction of the country haha).

Let me just tell you the French people near Luxembourg are RUDE, we kept asking for the general direction of the Luxembourg border and people would laugh at us, and say they have no idea. It was still only 2-4 miles away from where we were....grr! We stayed in Longwy/Mexy, but I cannot remember the name of the town we walked to and where the people were rude...sounded like hard-core lol. Har-court or something maybe, definitely not on maps! People were stalking us in their cars too....we got the hell outta there quick. Glad I had my phone...! They were just trying to scare us...but still! between them and the ignorant people....I wasn't impressed, Paris people were so nice however.

 

You should have went the direction your signal got stronger
French people, especially those out in tiny villages, don't like it when Americans/foreigners come in an speak their own language and want help that way(I'm not sure what language you spoke), but generally they tend to be much more helpful if you talk their native language(French) even if it's horrible. Strange culture in our eyes, but oh well...

 

We were saying it in French! Some of the people with me could speak decently. It's not like we expected them to know English or to help us in English. We actually tried the signal thing afterwards. Come to find out, we would have to walk along a highway to get there...so oh well...we had quite an experience!

 

hehe, it sure sounds fun. Well, there you see the difference in cultures then, Europeans are NOT friendly; I lived there for over 14 years and went back last summer and was glad to get the heck out of Germany and France; Switzerland and Italy were still better.

 

Lol well I see where you're coming from, some Germans also like if someone from the States tries to speak German but most of the time, there is a great deal of admiration for those who are from the States (not surprising due to the nearly 70,000 US troops stationed across Germany) and most younger Germans like to try their English on Americans.

 

We're getting off the subject , but it seems to me like there's admiration and hate for americans at the same time. A lot of Germans, or maybe only the people I know?, tend to dislike Americans, and America itself, but on the other hand, Germany tries to copy everything that's good here for themselves.
Friends coming over from Germany always pound on things that are not as good here as they are in Germany, but they never say anything about most of the things, which are better here than over there, things they have never seen before.