Your favourite European people and why.

Germans. It's impossible to answer this question without categorising millions, but on the whole Germans are wonderful warm hearted people.

On a wider note there are no groups of people I don't like because generally I judge people as individuals so for me there are no wrong answers on this thread. However if we are generalising then I would have to say that the group that have gleaned the most positive impressions from are The Germans and the Spanish.
 
exeterboro said:
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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I had a team of 4 working in Spain for over 10 years. They had me running in circles. If in the UK I said to one of my staff 'when will the report be ready' they would say 'Tuesday 24th' the Spanish would say 'its in draft' or 'its planned'. I never beat them.
 
Same_as_before said:
I had a team of 4 working in Spain for over 10 years. They had me running in circles. If in the UK I said to one of my staff 'when will the report be ready' they would say 'Tuesday 24th' the Spanish would say 'its in draft' or 'its planned'. I never beat them.
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Although I included the Spanish in my choices, from the reasons you give I just can't seem to get a handle on why you like them so much. The mental image I get is that they spent ten years taking the absolute p*ss while you stood flapping your arms and saying 'eeeeeeh, you just can't beat em can you?' like David Brent when Finchie's in the office.

I fully accept that there's a 99% chance I'm wrong.;)
 
DCI_Gene_Hunt said:
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.
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I totally agree about the drink thing with Norwegians, until they are in another country. I worked with a team of them in Singapore and Batam, where the alcohol is relatively cheap compared with Norway, they quite often drank themselves senseless. However, they were always up for work the next day.
Overall, I find most people are very good in spite of cultural differences.
In response to the post about incorrectly judging the Russians by the actions of their government, thankfully the same can be said about us Brits in the main 🙄
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
Although I included the Spanish in my choices, from the reasons you give I just can't seem to get a handle on why you like them so much. The mental image I get is that they spent ten years taking the absolute p*ss while you stood flapping your arms and saying 'eeeeeeh, you just can't beat em can you?' like David Brent when Finchie's in the office.

I fully accept that there's a 99% chance I'm wrong.;)
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They did, there is no denying it, but in the end the job was done. Manana means tomorrow, but when they say it they mean stop worrying it will happen. They work hard, if a little sparodic, but give you their last Rolo.
 
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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😄😄😄How could you tell when you got a few extra chips😂😂
 
I have worked and met a lot of different nationalities, but love meeting the French. I tend to agree that Parisian’s can look down their nose at you, but so do a lot of southerners or more so, people who have relocated down south. You only have to look at some of the southern based members on this board - not all of them.

As many of you know, I spend six weeks holidaying in our caravan in France and have met some wonderful people over the years and could regale countless times that the French have gone out of their way to help u

This year, the family who are always next to us asked about our inflatable boat and why we hadn’t used it. I explained the seems had gone and that I had tried to buy a new one, but couldn’t get one for love or money. They asked if we had tried all the main marine dealers in the area and I said we had. The next day, the lady shouts me over and she had spent the previous afternoon searching on the internet and telephoning dealers until she found me one.

Somehow, I don’t think this would have happened in England.
 
40FootRoad said:
In response to the post about incorrectly judging the Russians by the actions of their government, thankfully the same can be said about us Brits in the main 🙄
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I mentioned that about not judging them by their government because people often seem to think they idolise Putin when there’s significant ambiguity and distrust of authority in my experience, even if he probably would win elections only not with as high a percentage!

We Brits are a whole different kettle of fish, I find us decent most of the time overseas but a minority of arrogant entitled buffoons and boozed up yobs let us down… a bit like at home eh?!
 
Lithuanians ..so friendly and good sense of humour...same with germans and french. On my bucket list is to meet italians , see if tbey not all like gino d'acampo
 
SmallTown said:
Never met a German I didn't get on with.

Also very much like the Finnish people I've met but sadly don't know enough of them to form an opinion
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Strange one for me, as the finnish students at my uni were aloof and not well liked by many of the nationalities there. Not socialvle at all. ..but admit its a small sample size
 
Italy for me. I love their passion and expression, their language, love of football, great food, climate, preserved history and some pretty good lookers.
Not keen on the few cowards on scooters in Rome.
 
I've never really met any I haven't got on with. My two favourite phrases in any European language are both Finnish, one beautifully poetic and the other extremely rude.
 
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