France
Like most Dutch children, I spent my early years on French campings. When my parents decided that we’d seen enough of the country of vin and cheese, they exchanged it for summers in Italy. When I moved to France at the age of 20, I felt like I hadn’t seen any of it. To be even more precise, Paris was France, to me. When I started visiting French cities with my personal guide, my French boyfriend, Xavier, I realised how wrong I was and why France is the most visited holiday country in the world!
| 15°C is the average temperature in Paris | 171 days a year are rainy in Paris | Average spending is 50€ – 100€ a day | I consider France safe for solo female travelling |
France in a nutshell
- Name: Republic of France.
- You probably know it from: The Eiffel tower, it’s haute cuisine, great fashion sense and Paris.
- Inhabitants: 65 million. Of which a rough 2 million live in or directly around Paris, the capital city.
- Language: French, French and mainly French. Younger people around bigger cities usually speak some English, but the French are infamous for their lack of knowledge of other languages.
- Religion: Mostly Christian (Catholic), which is clearly present in cities and villages. Due to colonialism, Islam is also widely represented in cities.
