Germany's red carpet welcome faces first World Cup test

Following up to Earl Evleth

Any suggestions? By seafood platter I don't means a selection of deep fried
stuff, but cold, some raw, seafood, oysters, crab, etc.

neither do I.
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On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 23:28:39 +0100, Magda wrote:

On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 22:19:35 GMT, in rec.travel.europe, (Jim Ley)
arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :


... No, no, no, Paris is an awful place to live. *
...
... Jim.
...
...
...
... * of course I've never even visited, but what does that matter in
... judging it?

*Never* visit Paris, you'll be so enthralled you'll never leave it. Take my word.

It's just another city as far as I'm concerned. I had a nice time there but
I wasn't enthralled by it.
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Tim C.

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:08:38 +0100, Magda wrote:

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:40:36 +0000, in rec.travel.europe, The Reid
arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :

... Following up to Magda
...
... ... * of course I've never even visited, but what does that matter in
... ... judging it?
...
... *Never* visit Paris, you'll be so enthralled you'll never leave it. Take my word.
...
... Oh please. Paris is nice, so are lots of places. I'd rather be in
... San Sebastian, a city on a bay with probably the best food in
... Europe:-

Go ahead, vinegar-chips, say aloud that I don't have the right to have an opinion!

Touchy!
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Tim C.

Tim C. wrote:

On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 23:28:39 +0100, Magda wrote:
[]
*Never* visit Paris, you'll be so enthralled you'll never leave it. Take
my word.

It's just another city as far as I'm concerned. I had a nice time there but
I wasn't enthralled by it.

Hands up those who've been and left?!

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On 9 Dec 2005 03:46:24 -0800, "PJ O'Donovan" wrote:

with a miniscule little glass of blood red orange juice and advised
"Sie Muessen bei mir fuer die orangensaft zahlen"

I think they saw a sucker ...
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Tim C.

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:20:22 +0100, Martin wrote:

*Never* visit Paris, you'll be so enthralled you'll never leave it. Take my word.

It's just another city as far as I'm concerned. I had a nice time there but
I wasn't enthralled by it.

I ended up positively disliking it, especially some of the locals.

They were just normal city folk to me, I found them helpful and friendly
enough. I dislike the Viennese more.
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Tim C.

On 12/12/05 10:40, in article ,
"The Reid" wrote:

I find a grilled (a la plancha)
large lobster can be a bit too rich.

One gets monster rock lobster in the Caribbean.
One is not eaten and occupies the wreck of the
Rhone in the British Virgin Islands and
has the local name of "Lobzilla".
He is protected by local tradition but I imagine
some tourist diver will get him sooner or later.
Labzilla also had a barracuda buddy in the neighborhood.
The people who dive at the wreck (a standard diving
site in the BVI) usually don't have spear guns,
the dive is fairly deep and they are watching
their gages.

I find the large ones are hard to cook, over grilling
will make the flesh a bit rubbery. Also, the "sauce"
is usually just melted butter and uninteresting.

As for taste, I remember in the US having a lobster
in a black bean sauce at Chinese restaurants which
was generally pretty good.

Tim C. wrote:

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:20:22 +0100, Martin wrote:

*Never* visit Paris, you'll be so enthralled you'll never leave it.
Take my word.

It's just another city as far as I'm concerned. I had a nice time there but
I wasn't enthralled by it.

I ended up positively disliking it, especially some of the locals.

They were just normal city folk to me, I found them helpful and friendly
enough. I dislike the Viennese more.

I didn't find anyone in Viennese restaurants/hotels etc. unpleasant, but
they were probably mostly Croatian or from somewhere else! I was
surprised at the friendliness in a couple of cases. For example, having
a beer in the gardens at Schloss Schoenbrunn, and the guy running the
kiosk (a local, who'd already made the sale after all) wanted to chat
about the weather (it had been raining a lot) for a good 15 minutes!

In general, it's not really fair to compare the attitude of people in
capital (or very large) cities to the country in general. Londoners have
a reputation for being ruder than in other parts of the country, for
example. It's sometimes an unfair stereotype, but there is a grain of
truth.

I do know quite a few Viennese composers, and they are all quite lovely
people!

--
David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net
usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk
http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org

Earl Evleth wrote:

[]
I find the large ones are hard to cook, over grilling
will make the flesh a bit rubbery. Also, the "sauce"
is usually just melted butter and uninteresting.

Though I wouldn't have it like that all the time, plain melted butter is
often pretty good with lobster.

As for taste, I remember in the US having a lobster
in a black bean sauce at Chinese restaurants which
was generally pretty good.

The black bean sauces can be pretty good (I like them with scallops too)
but it's quite possible there would be MSG in it.

--
David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net
usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk
http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:35:05 +0000,
(David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and
prestwich tesco 24h offy) wrote:

They were just normal city folk to me, I found them helpful and friendly
enough. I dislike the Viennese more.

I didn't find anyone in Viennese restaurants/hotels etc. unpleasant, but
they were probably mostly Croatian or from somewhere else! ...

Almost certainly. :-)

... I was
surprised at the friendliness in a couple of cases. For example, having
a beer in the gardens at Schloss Schoenbrunn, and the guy running the
kiosk (a local, who'd already made the sale after all) wanted to chat
about the weather (it had been raining a lot) for a good 15 minutes!

Obviously there *are* nice people in Vienna - I find them on the whole a
bit brusque. But now I have developed that stereotype opinion of them, I
seem to see it more. A case of you'll find what you are looking for,
perhaps.

In general, it's not really fair to compare the attitude of people in
capital (or very large) cities to the country in general. Londoners have
a reputation for being ruder than in other parts of the country, for
example. It's sometimes an unfair stereotype, but there is a grain of
truth.

I do know quite a few Viennese composers, and they are all quite lovely
people!


--
Tim C.