Does the Independent have to rely on these whinging twits who trot out the usual old rubbish about Paris ? (Paris is still wilfully old-fashioned", Dylan Jones Feb 6 2010) Didn't you get enough negative feedback to Adrian Hamilton's pathetic "Feeling down and out in Paris" ? - e.g. from doug-piranha:

"London is no smiley-faced Disneyworld experience....Tourists get ripped off royally every minute of every day.

So you met a couple of rude people. More fool you for eating in a restaurant that you knew was arrogant to its guets - and where the food was "not that good "

You poor old darling - "down and out " ? - pfffffffff."

Now we get this insubstantial piece of puffery about a new design store in Paris from the editor of GQ, who takes the opportunity to whinge about inattentive waiters - maybe they get tired of moaning tourists, especially as staffing levels are low because it's not so easy to employ people at slave-labour rates in France.

As an American pointed out in response to Hamilton's piece of dross:

"I have to say that I have never been treated as rudely in Paris as I have been in London. Still I love both cities and prefer genuine dourness and impatience with my ignorance of language and custom to the fakery and sugary sweet incompetence that is found in the hotels and restaurants in the little tourist towns in the US."

Is it beyond the competence of the Independent to give us some news about Paris which rises above the level of negative cliché ?

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.