Far from being pro or anti any particular nation or it's people, when I travel it is generally my intention to find common ground on which to form relationships with folk wherever I happen to be, whatever their origins, something akin to why we all signed up to Mudcat perhaps?! I did not travel to Paris to find Irish music, I travelled to Paris to give my wife (of 16 years) a romantic birthday treat, but as a relative stranger with limited time sought a spring board to social contact and used one of my many passions in life to that end. I'm pretty sure it ain't you, Garg, as a genuine music thread usually tempts your extensive knowledge, and your syntax isn't that piss poor, so I address the gobshite flamer guesting under you. Perhaps we all come across as 'batons merdeux' to you, but I think you need to find a little 'joie de vivre' and loosen up mate! Regarding your opening line, I got laid in Paris, always a good source of tranquility, you should try it!

Skipjack