Anyone been to Germany? Worth going?

French demon said

Hum, no. Rather Sainte-Maxime.
Saint-Maximin exists, but is located in north, near Paris.

Sainte-Maxime is a harbor on the Mediterranean sea. South-east of France. On the french Riviera.
I'm also in south of France, but on the other side, close to Spain.

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I was in Dijon last February (2022). The sightseeing was fantastic, took a stroll through the vineyards out in the country and the history in the old part of town was amazing (House of the Duke of Burgundy blew me away!!). I'm pretty shy especially in foreign places so I didn't interact with many people but the few I did seemed very nice. Overall though it seemed like most people were in kind of a grumpy mood, maybe it was just because of the weather haha. I also heard some stories from my friend who was my tour guide that they aren't very amenable to other cultures and those stories kind of bothered me (my friend is Algerian). But that was just one experience in one city and it's not like France is a "small" country. For example if my only experience visiting the U.S. was in visiting Philadelphia, PA I wouldn't be impressed lol.

I do have to say I *thought* I had retained enough French from 7th grade to at least partially understand speech but nope lol. I was able to figure out a lot from reading French but trying to listen to people speak it fluently I could not for the life of me pick out more than one word for every couple sentences. German works better for me because there are no silent letters in their words and they annunciate letters more clearly. Another downside of living in most parts of the U.S., you just don't get much exposure to other languages besides Spanish so it's hard to practice and keep your skills fresh.