France is the world's number-one tourist destination. Americans are among the world's most assiduous tourists, but for the most part, we simply don't know how to visit France We think only of its size (slightly smaller than Texas), forgetting its cultural density - 3000-plus years of recorded history against a mere 500 or so for Europeans in America - and start planning a frantic, high-speed attack, such as that depicted in the 1969 film If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. Americans often think in terms of flying from city to city, an absolute no-no if you want to stay solvent and shed a bit of the tension that vacations are supposed to remove.
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