My niece just left yesterday for her first ever trip to Europe. She will be visiting Ireland and Scotland for the next fortnight. She was very nervous about how she would be received, considering the current state of affairs over Iraq. I do recall getting harrassed as an American by some members of the military while in a Dublin once (one Scottish, three Irish, all drunk, rude, and belligerent), but that was for being (in their words) a nigger lover.

However, I never experienced much in the way of anti-American harrassment. You do tend to pick up people's prejudices when you speak to them in tourist situations. I quickly learned that in many major Irish tourist spots (as opposed to British ones, for example) the German tourists were often more resented than American or British tourists. However, because I've opposed the majority of US foreign policy my entire adult life, I never got involved in arguments with people in Ireland, Britain, or on the continent when Americans and the subject of American behavior came up in conversation.

However, it has been a number of years now since I've been in Europe, so I'm curious to how Europeans think it is going in this regard, or if any Americans who have recently been over the pond, would care to comment on how Americans are being treated in Europe just now.