Albino Shaq

I visited London about this time several years ago, and had many frustrations:

1 Couldn't find ANY coverage of our March Madness college basketball tourney.
Wandered from pub to pub without HOPE

2 NO FREE REFILLS ON DRINKS.....ANYWHERE!!!

3 NO MEXICAN FOOD!!!!

4 NOBODY FILLED MY GLASS WITH ICE.......EVER

5 NO ICED TEA

6 NO COFFEE

7. TINY PORTIONS OF FOOD ON THE PLATE

But seriously, had a GREAT time! Almost got killed at speakers' corner in Hyde Park
when I waxed eloquent about why America was the greatest country in the world. LOVED
the desserts....LOVED the people...LOVED the trains....LOVED the museums and plays

Later.

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Skirrit

Coming from Europe, the other perspective

    > 1 Couldn't find ANY coverage of our March Madness college basketball tourney.
    > Wandered from pub to pub without HOPE

I have 200 channels and there's nothing on. Not even on BBC America anymore. I
miss the BBC.

    > 2 NO FREE REFILLS ON DRINKS.....ANYWHERE!!!

You shouldn't drink that much coke anyway. And the beers are more expensive here than
what I was used to. Then again, you shouldn't drink that much beer anyway.

    > 3 NO MEXICAN FOOD!!!!

I agree. European Mexican food doesn't really exist. The guacamole at home was blue
more than green.

    > 4 NOBODY FILLED MY GLASS WITH ICE.......EVER

Never understood the ice thing. Still don't even though I'm used to it. My drink
seldomly warmed up in the time between getting it and drinking it. Now I just have
3/4 of my glass filled with ice so I actually need the free refills.

    > 5 NO ICED TEA
    >
    > 6 NO COFFEE

No coffee and tea in London? Or not the kind you are used to?

    > 7. TINY PORTIONS OF FOOD ON THE PLATE

Well sized portions. So you can eat all the food on your plate and not feel like
you're going to explode. You need a lot of restraint in the US. The food is good,
they just give you too much. I see a lot of people giving up before they get their
main course.

    > But seriously, had a GREAT time! Almost got killed at speakers' corner in Hyde
    > Park when I waxed eloquent about why America was the greatest country in the
    > world. LOVED the desserts....LOVED the people...LOVED the trains....LOVED the
    > museums and plays

Having a great time here, apart from the INS horror. Moving to Texas next month
incidentally. Love it there : flat, some wind, clean, friendly people and you can
import Belgian Beers.

Skirrit

Shane

In article <[email protected]>, brit_am
<[email protected]> writes
    >In summer I used to see Coca Colas on ice by various places in London. As to the
    >BBC, I miss it as well. This is the reason I have not subscribed to the Comcast
    >digital service. -- There's be about 200 more channels of nothing to watch. I really
    >miss EastEnders which I was addicted to.
    >
EastEnders is on BBC America. Watched it earlier today (12:00 to 14:30
PST).

Brit_am

In summer I used to see Coca Colas on ice by various places in London. As to the BBC,
I miss it as well. This is the reason I have not subscribed to the Comcast digital
service. -- There's be about 200 more channels of nothing to watch. I really miss
EastEnders which I was addicted to.

Skirrit <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:%[email protected]...
    > Coming from Europe, the other perspective
    >
    > > 1 Couldn't find ANY coverage of our March Madness college basketball tourney.
    > > Wandered from pub to pub without HOPE
    >
    > I have 200 channels and there's nothing on. Not even on BBC America
anymore.
    > I miss the BBC.
    >
    > > 2 NO FREE REFILLS ON DRINKS.....ANYWHERE!!!
    >
    > You shouldn't drink that much coke anyway. And the beers are more
expensive
    > here than what I was used to. Then again, you shouldn't drink that much
beer
    > anyway.
    >
    > > 3 NO MEXICAN FOOD!!!!
    >
    > I agree. European Mexican food doesn't really exist. The guacamole at home was blue
    > more than green.
    >
    > > 4 NOBODY FILLED MY GLASS WITH ICE.......EVER
    >
    >
    > Never understood the ice thing. Still don't even though I'm used to it. My drink
    > seldomly warmed up in the time between getting it and drinking it.
Now
    > I just have 3/4 of my glass filled with ice so I actually need the free refills.
    >
    > > 5 NO ICED TEA
    > >
    > > 6 NO COFFEE
    >
    > No coffee and tea in London? Or not the kind you are used to?
    >
    > > 7. TINY PORTIONS OF FOOD ON THE PLATE
    >
    >
    > Well sized portions. So you can eat all the food on your plate and not
feel
    > like you're going to explode. You need a lot of restraint in the US. The food is
    > good, they just give you too much. I see a lot of people giving up before they get
    > their main course.
    >
    > > But seriously, had a GREAT time! Almost got killed at speakers' corner
in
    > > Hyde Park when I waxed eloquent about why America was the greatest
country
    > > in the world. LOVED the desserts....LOVED the people...LOVED the trains....LOVED
    > > the museums and plays
    >
    > Having a great time here, apart from the INS horror. Moving to Texas next month
    > incidentally. Love it there : flat, some wind, clean, friendly
people
    > and you can import Belgian Beers.
    >
    >
    > Skirrit

Skirrit

Yeah, we even get that on a couple of local channels.

"Shane" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > In article <[email protected]>, brit_am
    > <[email protected]> writes
    > >In summer I used to see Coca Colas on ice by various places in London.
As
    > >to the BBC, I miss it as well. This is the reason I have not subscribed
to
    > >the Comcast digital service. -- There's be about 200 more channels of nothing to
    > >watch. I really miss EastEnders which I was addicted to.
    > >
    > EastEnders is on BBC America. Watched it earlier today (12:00 to 14:30
    > PST).