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06-08-2004, 08:31 AM | #63 | |
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I can tell you that the switching with driving left or right can be mightily scary.
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BUT its still a great place to go.... lol. Dont let it put you off
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A pox upon me for a lousy varlet! (or however that goes) Well... I didn't know exactly WHICH moors... just remembered that word from HotB. We don't really use the word here in the US.
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06-08-2004, 11:37 AM | #66 |
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Oh, wow, Rian, that's very cool. I plan on going backpacking sometime after college and living in hostels.
And I adore the way the restaurants are more relaxed, at least in Spain. I really like the Spanish lifestyle overall, though. It was nice to be able to take a siesta to help recover from our jet lag and not miss out on too much going on in the city.
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06-09-2004, 03:21 AM | #69 | |
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When i was in HK a few years back the handiest thing was the Octopus card, ingenious little thing that you could use for everything you would normally need money for. I dont think its necassary to change your style of clothing just to fit in, you are a tourist, its better to pack clothes that will suit the climate (if it was me on my way to England the thermies would be the first thing i packed ) Also, and im not sure if this is relevant to your trip, but its way better when you dont just do the tourist ****, in HK there was the very classy British/european part of the city with its fancy restaurants and jewelry shops, and then there was the true Chinese part which included the markets and the way better restaurants...
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06-09-2004, 03:51 AM | #70 | |
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Twista, it seems you subscribe to the Trainspotting school of thought regarding Scotland's scenery, which certainly has some currency, though Rannoch Moor (and the West Highlands in general) is stunning - one of the last proper wilderness areas in Europe. It's also the venue of an annual slaughter of tourists by the mighty midge (a tiny mosquito which does no harm but drives you mental). My recommendation for London is to go on the London Eye, which is GREAT, then walk along the South Bank of the Thames to the Tate Modern (via the restored Shakespearean Globe Theatre) then across the Millenium Bridge to St Paul's. One of the world's great city walks. The only thing I've seen not mentioned is travel insurance, which I presume your tour party will be sorting out, Khamul. Not that you'd need it here (you'll get anything you need on the NHS, though you have to pay for prescriptions) but you will elsewhere. Other boring tips would be to split your money, and carry plastic or travellers' cheques rather than cash. Pity you're not going to get out of London, though, as it's a bit of a toilet compared with, say, Oxford (he said with not a trace of bias). Anyway, have a great time and we'll look forward to your postcards in the Holidays thread |
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06-09-2004, 10:29 AM | #71 | |
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And no - I didn't say anything to her - and I don't know if my flipping her off was noticiable or not. It was a reflex after her comment "culture - oh what culture" - *spit*.
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06-09-2004, 01:19 PM | #72 | |
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People like that are best ignored, JD. They do enough damage to their own reputations by their actions and words without others feeding the flames. She was showing her own intolerance and ignorance and I'm sure the other tourists realized after awhile that she was a complete jerk. You didn't need to prove her comments right by an inappropriate hand gesture.
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06-09-2004, 01:21 PM | #73 | |
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Oh and I know they thought she was an idiot - because I heard them talking about her after she would move on. I don't care that I flipped her off - I was tired of her crap after having listened to it everytime I passed her by. The thing that got me was that she had been living here for over 20 years - that also annoyed me. if she hated it so much she should have gone back to France where it was oh so much better.
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06-09-2004, 01:41 PM | #74 | |
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06-09-2004, 01:44 PM | #75 | |
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06-09-2004, 01:46 PM | #76 |
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I've been living in the US my entire life, and mostly in small towns, and I'm sick of listening to the people I live with and go to school with bash countries like Italy and England just because they're different, or rag on legal first generation immigrants who have trouble with the language. I've been dealing with it for eighteen years and I've yet to flip someone off for disagreeing with me about whether or not the US "culture" (which, since we are a melting pot, is very vague for the most part) is superior. And ask any of my friends, I am an extremely argumentative person...
Maybe she couldn't leave because of financial reasons and other commitments? It was pretty rude of her to go on and on about how awful the country is, but it is probably not the best of ideas to go reinforce her opinion of rude, unrefined US "culture."
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As for your opinion that I flipped her off for not thinking that the US was superior to other cultures - you are 100% abslutely wrong. I flipped her off because after hearing her all day go on and on - I just turned around and flipped her off real quick. It wasn't like I went up to her and flipped her off or cursed her out - it was not a NOTICIABLE thing. Quote:
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I'm intrigued. What does "flip her off" mean exactly?
I'm guessing it involves the middle finger, though that doesn't help me with the torrent of cheap innuendo that I'm desperately trying to hold back here.... ... someone help me, please... |
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06-09-2004, 03:36 PM | #80 |
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PHEW! That's what I thought...
Now that WOULD be a useful travel tip: obscene hand gestures around the world. The old middle finger is pretty much the lingua franca these days, but it's so nice if one can join in with the locals. I've heard it said that Italians have a particularly complex set of hand gestures. Apparently you can fill in your tax return purely through the medium of Fingerbobs. |
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