This is a join us in France short episode 250

bonjou I'm Annie sergeant and today I wonder are you worrying about the right stuff when preparing your trip to France? Vacation time is precious and maybe you're coming to France for the first time,

so you want the best of everything and you ask for a lot of recommendations.

I understand that urge, I do the same thing when I'm going

somewhere unfamiliar. But consider this. Sometimes researching for days on end will not

make your trip any better at all. So save some time and concentrate on the things that

will make a difference. Here are three of them. Number one, restaurants and cafes. For everyday eating where you'll spend 15 to 20 euros per person,

you do not need a recommendation in Paris.

What? Let me explain. You are going to be visiting a world capital with two plus million

people and a country that has a long time reputation for great food. So why are you not

trusting your own instincts?

Review sites like Help and TripAdvisor have trained us to think that we need a

recommendation for restaurants anywhere we might go, but that's not true in France.

When you get hungry in Paris, this is what you do.

You walk to the next two or three restaurants,

you read the menus posted outside, by law,

you look around, you take a good sniff, you look at what people have in their plates, and you follow your instincts.

If you do that, you will discover great places that fit your taste and not somebody else's.

And you won't be going all over the creation

just to try a restaurant that's more or less the same

as what you could have done right next to you.

There are about 20,000 restaurants in Paris.

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