Your favourite European people and why.

The Danes I have met have been great people with a fantastic sense of humour they don't take themselves too seriously like the British. Ive yet to meet a Dutch man through work who wasn't an arrogant ****
 
In my previous line of work I worked with quite a few different nationalities, and I cant say that one has been better than another, they have all been pretty good.

Maybe special mention to the Danes and Dutch, who were very welcoming and love a party.
 
The Spanish, my life and its most memorable moments and the down sides in the last 20 years have been in pertnership with my relationships with Spanish people. I would trust my life with most Spanish people, that's how trustworthy I believe most ordinary people are in Spain.
 
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redblood said:
( to the point most of the baby boomers are called George )
How true is that. I must have worked with hundreds over the years here in Oz and seems like Yorgos is the most popular name.
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Sorry was referring to Corfu specifically on that point. They most of the blokes on Corfu are called either George or Christos
 
I used to live in shared accommodation with a lot of Polish and Eastern Europeans and worked with a lot of them in the factories when I first moved to Lincolnshire. I really got on well with them. They taught me how to swear and basic words. I tell you what though the ones I met could drink! Back then I was 21 or 22 and could drink a fair amount but spent a new year's eve with a group of then listening to Polish music and drinking Polish vodka, they didn't even seem drunk or hung over the next day, me I passed out and was hung over for what seemed like a week! Great bunch of people and made some good friends with them back then. I found them very hard workers in the factories and hard party people when they wasn't working.
 
zzzzz said:
Greeks.
Never met a grumpy one.
Always happy, so laid back, beautiful woman, and fiddling their taxes is a national hobby 😁
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"Steve" - a Greek fella who used to run a fish & chip shop at the Longlands. Fantastic bloke, always slipped us a few extra chips or on occasion even let us have them for nothing. He never got any grief from us snotty kids and always had a smile on his face. Not that we got away with murder, we knew when to draw the line.

Always had a soft spot for the Greeks since then but have to say I do love going to Norway and being in amongst the locals, always have a great time with them.
 
DCI_Gene_Hunt said:
"Steve" - a Greek fella who used to run a fish & chip shop at the Longlands. Fantastic bloke, always slipped us a few extra chips or on occasion even let us have them for nothing. He never got any grief from us snotty kids and always had a smile on his face. Not that we got away with murder, we knew when to draw the line.

Always had a soft spot for the Greeks since then but have to say I do love going to Norway and being in amongst the locals, always have a great time with them.
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Yeah done a lot of work with Noggies over the years. Good people. Along with the Dutch I'd say they're more like us than any of the others.
 
zzzzz said:
Yeah done a lot of work with Noggies over the years. Good people. Along with the Dutch I'd say they're more like us than any of the others.
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I find when you are with them they like to socialise and have a drink but because of that country's attitude to alcohol (and it's cost) its much more sensible and sociable - still have a good drink but it's about having a good time rather than getting hammered.

And generally I have always found the people friendly & helpful and have never felt threatened anywhere that I've been. To be honest I could live there.
 
No mention yet of the Portuguese, who are lovely people. Germans are sound, as are most across the continent.
I don’t think I ever experienced hospitality, though, like getting invited to a large family Sunday dinner in Southern Italy.
 
SmallTown said:
City with the most miserable people. The rest of France is full of fine people
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First time I went to Paris the first thing we did was go for a meal in a small family run cafe near the hotel. I made an effort to speak bits of French when ordering, used the obvious please & thank you's, left a nice tip at the end, the owner looked at me like I was something unpleasant he'd stood in.
 
Druss_The_Legend said:
I used to live in shared accommodation with a lot of Polish and Eastern Europeans and worked with a lot of them in the factories when I first moved to Lincolnshire. I really got on well with them. They taught me how to swear and basic words. I tell you what though the ones I met could drink! Back then I was 21 or 22 and could drink a fair amount but spent a new year's eve with a group of then listening to Polish music and drinking Polish vodka, they didn't even seem drunk or hung over the next day, me I passed out and was hung over for what seemed like a week! Great bunch of people and made some good friends with them back then. I found them very hard workers in the factories and hard party people when they wasn't working.
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Concur with this - try and drink them under the table, you'll end up dead.
 
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