Originally Posted by stackm

I guess her audience found the advice valuable. One even provided an additional helpful "tip" for August travel:

"but the one thing that guidebooks don’t say explicitly about Paris in August is that the city is mobbed with people from Asia. They might say that the city has lots of “tourists” in August, but you are left to assume that it will mostly be Americans doing their darnedest to act french. It is anything from that case. "