Yes, because the best places can be evidenced by how many people live there...

Mumbai, here I come!

Bravo, NYCFS (and QC)! You brightened my rainy Thursday - thank you. Eight hours later and it's still here, too!

As a Paris lover, I try to ignore such silly posts but I sure am glad I read this one. QC, your response made me laugh out loud! Great!

Thanks, Larraby,

More room on Paris flights for the rest of us!

May I offer the following suggestion, in what I hope is a tactful fashion, to those who would write parodies:

Have a genuine affection and preferably a first-hand knowledge of your subject. You cannot be funny if you are not in control of your anger, so pick a personality or class of being whom you like, not despise. To play the hick when you don't really know and understand hicks will be difficult; to try to do so successfully when it is obvious you dislike or even merely think you are above them will be impossible. The same goes for when the person or species you want to parody are anything but hicks. Consider that Kelsey Grammar and the writers of 'Frasier' would likely have failed dismally if they didn't make their characters out to be not only flawed but lovable, and above all, people in whom we can recognize at least some part of ourselves.

I'm still chuckling at the thought of a European wandering around Manhattan saying "Howdy" to everybody. . .

Elle,
I am still chuckling just thinking about it....Do you imagine a proper and formal European going around town saying: Howdy, to everyone?

Yeah, it feels much better when people just politely stare through your guts...
Thanks, 'been there, immigrated.

They go around Ireland in Caravans......

Wrong post. My computer is cracking up!

I apologize, but how is that computer's fault if you posting in wrong thread?

McDonalds in Paris?
Isn't that a Scottish restaurant?

"English is the universal language and it would be nice if the French would at least try to accommodate their guests who have come to spend their hard-earned money in France."

Why? It's their country... in my opinion, it's up to us to try to learn to speak their language. Do you speak the language of every foreigner who comes to the U.S.? I don't.

Best,
Sandy

Yeah, it would be a scream if all Americans spoke every language in the world, like even those where country population = 7 people !
English is excepted as International language, so it is a different story that not everyone speak it, but suggesting to English speaking people to learn Armenian is like - bogus !

Gadzooooks, reconsider seeing Paris because of Larraby's "thoughts"? Fodors is supposed to offer travel tips to buttress planning. You still have to think!!! Instead, some moron (whom you ought to snicker at!) posts trash and the more insecure start to twitter.

One time, a poster here said he'd cancelled his plans to see Venice because his neighbor (who didn't travel!) told him he'd heard it was an old place.

The Europe board USED to be smart!!!