Traveling to Europe (again)

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:19:26 +0100, "Tim C."
wrote:

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:50:02 +0100, Magda wrote in post :
m :

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:39:20 -0500, in rec.travel.europe, Cathy L
arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:

... On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:36:33 +0100, "Tim C."
... wrote:
...
... On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:18:52 -0500, Cathy L wrote in post :
... m :
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... On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:14:01 +0100, "Tim C."
... wrote:
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... On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:52:42 -0000, Le$ wrote in post :
... :
...
... 4. If you want to go where nearly everyone speaks English, go to The
... Netherlands or eastern Belgium.
...
... Or Scandinavia. Or the UK even :-)
...
... It is funny, we could understand the English people spoke in countries
... like Germany, much better than the English spoken by the people in
... London and Ireland.
...
... Cathy L
...
... Why is that surprising? Do you think people in the UK speak school
... eenglish? (sic)
...
... They should speak as good English as we do in the States.
...
... Cathy L

ROTFL

I thought you'd say something like that :-)

I thought you might.

Cathy L

In article ,
"Tim C." wrote:

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:29:20 +0100, Martin wrote in post :
:

No translator provided for Llangollen.

or London Cathy will have problems down Smithfields market. Actually,
everybody would.

I discovered that there are occasional English speakers I have
difficulty with in Wales 8-)

--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist


http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo

In article . com,
Mike Lane wrote:

erilar wrote on Feb 19, 2010:

shuddering violently-- no one could pay me enough to take one of those
tours!


I agree, and yet I have friends who genuinely love going on tours. They
simply cannot understand why I would want to plan my own transport, or drive
myself when I could easily have the luxury (as they see it) of having someone
else make all the arrangements.

I should add that there ARE groups I have traveled with, but only
Elderhostel groups in countries where I don't speak the language. Such
groups do not spend the entire trip on a bus trying to collect the
maximum number of countries, however. Last year in Sicily we were based
in a single hotel for over half the trip.

--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist


http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo

In article . com,
Mike Lane wrote:

William Black wrote on Feb 19, 2010:

Half the fun of going somewhere new is working out what you what to see,
not what someone who you're paying wants to show you while maximising their
profits.

Oh, I couldn't agree more; I'm just saying that I know many people who quite
genuinely do want exactly that. I don't try to argue - I think this is one
case where it's rather an advantage to be in the minority.

It's also possible to travel at unpopular times and visit places not
swarming with tourists.

--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist


http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:44:02 +0100, Martin wrote:

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:18:52 -0500, Cathy L wrote:

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:14:01 +0100, "Tim C."
wrote:

On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:52:42 -0000, Le$ wrote in post :
:

4. If you want to go where nearly everyone speaks English, go to The
Netherlands or eastern Belgium.

Or Scandinavia. Or the UK even :-)

It is funny, we could understand the English people spoke in countries
like Germany, much better than the English spoken by the people in
London and Ireland.

In general Polish immigrants speak quite good English.

I think it would have made so much sense when all those countries went
to using the Euro, they should have went to a common language at the
same time.

Cathy L

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:08:14 -0600, erilar
wrote:

In article ,
"William Black" wrote:

"Cathy L" wrote in message
...

We will be taking the Cosmos tour number 9020.
http://www.cosmos.com/Product.aspx?t...roduct_Britain
Has anyone taken this tour?

See the UK from the back of a bus.

Eat hotel food and spend the evenings in hotel bars.

It sounds like a week and a half in hell to me.

shuddering violently-- no one could pay me enough to take one of those
tours!

I'm going back to Germany again for a couple weeks in April to visit a
couple places I've missed and hunt some more castles. No group; just
me, my backpack, and my camera.

In 2007 we took a ten day bus tour around just Germany. Then we rented
a car and drove around for another seven days.

The South of Germany is really beautiful. The cities in the North, not
so much.

Cathy L

"Cathy L" wrote in message
...

If I truly upset too many people with my posts, please tell me. Even
better, does anyone know of other sites where I can receive help?

Tripadvisor is by far and away the best site, with very helpful people on
its forums. I do suggest, however, that you come across as a normal person
and not as a troll or you will not last long there!

Ian

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:46:03 +0000, Mike Lane
wrote:

erilar wrote on Feb 19, 2010:

In article ,
"William Black" wrote:

"Cathy L" wrote in message
...

We will be taking the Cosmos tour number 9020.
http://www.cosmos.com/Product.aspx?t...roduct_Britain
Has anyone taken this tour?

See the UK from the back of a bus.

Eat hotel food and spend the evenings in hotel bars.

It sounds like a week and a half in hell to me.

shuddering violently-- no one could pay me enough to take one of those
tours!


I agree, and yet I have friends who genuinely love going on tours. They
simply cannot understand why I would want to plan my own transport, or drive
myself when I could easily have the luxury (as they see it) of having someone
else make all the arrangements.

It really is amazing. The last time we were in Atlantic City, I played
a little roulette. I actually saw some people betting on the black
numbers and others betting on the red ones. I guess they had different
ideas.

Cathy L

Martin wrote:

I doubt that you would ever visit 11 countries in 14 days with your own
transport like Cathy and Bill did.

That is the Japanese style of touring. You spend most of the day getting
from one spot to another, get out and take a picture, then back in the
bus to go to the next spot. The mark of a good tour is one that gets you
the most photo ops and is on schedule.

On Feb 19, 3:35*pm, Cathy L wrote:
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:19:26 +0100, "Tim C."
wrote:





On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:50:02 +0100, Magda wrote in post :
m :

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:39:20 -0500, in rec.travel.europe, Cathy L
arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:

*... On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:36:33 +0100, "Tim C."
*... wrote:
*...
*... On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:18:52 -0500, Cathy L wrote in post :
*... m :
*...
*... On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:14:01 +0100, "Tim C."
*... wrote:
*...
*... On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:52:42 -0000, Le$ wrote in post :
*... :
*...
*... 4. If you want to go where nearly everyone speaks English, go to The
*... Netherlands or eastern Belgium.
*...
*... Or Scandinavia. Or the UK even :-)
*...
*... It is funny, we could understand the English people spoke in countries
*... like Germany, much better than the English spoken by the people in
*... London and Ireland.
*...
*... Cathy L
*...
*... Why is that surprising? Do you think people in the UK *speak school
*... eenglish? (sic)
*...
*... They should speak as good English as we do in the States.
*...
*... Cathy L

ROTFL

I thought you'd say something like that :-)

I thought you might.

Cathy L

drink up...its pinot noir