Des Small

"eetinBelgi�" <[email protected]> writes:

    > Des Small wrote:
    > > S Viemeister <[email protected]> writes:
    > >
    > > > Des Small wrote:
    > > > >
    > > > > [email protected] writes:
    > > > >
    > > > > > Which three cities would you recommend I visit in Europe?
    > > > >
    > > > > Basingstoke, Volendam and Nice.
    > > >
    > > > And Milton Keynes?
    > >
    > > for sure.
    > >
    > > des
    > > 's shift key has died.
    >
    > and Chelmsford

chelmsford has died? i can't say i'll miss it.

des

David Horne

george <[email protected]> wrote:

    > [email protected] wrote:
    > >Which
    > > three cities would you recommend I visit in Europe?
    >
    > My favorites are:
    >
    > Istanbul
    > Salzburg
    > Stuttgart (where I now live)

Oh, please recommend Salzburg in more detail. We're flying there in
August, and at the moment pretty much view it as the starting and ending
point of a trip that will takes us down through Lubljana, Trieste and
onto the Croatian part of the Istrian peninsula. I know it's meant to be
pretty, but Salzburg in peak tourist season doesn't seem too appealing.
Is it worth a stay then?

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

David Horne

Des Small <[email protected]> wrote:

    > [email protected] writes:
    >
    > > Which three cities would you recommend I visit in Europe?
    >
    > Basingstoke, Volendam and Nice.

Nice is perfectly charming. Are you kidding on the first two, or is it
purposely a weird juxtaposition? Or, I suppose you may think that Nice
is dreadful, in which case I'm not sure I'd personally pay much
attention as to what you think about other cities...

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

David Horne

Des Small <[email protected]> wrote:

    > "eetinBelgi�" <[email protected]> writes:
    >
    > > Des Small wrote:
    > > > S Viemeister <[email protected]> writes:
    > > >
    > > > > Des Small wrote:
    > > > > >
    > > > > > [email protected] writes:
    > > > > >
    > > > > > > Which three cities would you recommend I visit in Europe?
    > > > > >
    > > > > > Basingstoke, Volendam and Nice.
    > > > >
    > > > > And Milton Keynes?
    > > >
    > > > for sure.
    > > >
    > > > des
    > > > 's shift key has died.
    > >
    > > and Chelmsford
    >
    > chelmsford has died? i can't say i'll miss it.

But how many delicatessens do they have? I've never been there, but I
passed through it on time this evening, though reminded of the wise
words of trollinBelgi�, this must have been an accident.

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

Dubiously Fragrant Muffin

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:38:11 -0800, Go Fig <[email protected]> wrote:

    >In article <[email protected]>, The Reid
    ><[email protected]> wrote:
    >> Following up to Miss L. Toe
    >>
    >> >Milano
    >>
    >> are you mucking about?
    >Milan is one of my favorites.

With all due respect, you have taste buds in your arse.
--
---
DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com
---
--

Dubiously Fragrant Muffin

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:09:31 -0600, erilar
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >In article <[email protected] .com>,
    >"Cochon Capitaliste" <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> Paris, Poznan, Salzburg
    >>
    >Well, I would have to be paid enormous sums of money to allow myself to
    >be dragged into Paris, but that's a personal quirk 8-)
    >Salzburg is lovely, though.
    >Berlin is interesting and offers possibilities for almost any taste.
    >All my favorite places are small, though. I'm headed for Quedlinburg
    >next month, among other not-terribly-large places. The biggest will be
    >Bern this trip.

Bern is quite pretty. I especially like the way the river weaves
through it all. Quite boring though, and very Swiss.
--
---
DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com
---
--

Des Small

[email protected] (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy) writes:

    > Des Small <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    > > [email protected] writes:
    > >
    > > > Which three cities would you recommend I visit in Europe?
    > >
    > > Basingstoke, Volendam and Nice.
    >
    > Nice is perfectly charming. Are you kidding on the first two, or is it
    > purposely a weird juxtaposition? Or, I suppose you may think that Nice
    > is dreadful, in which case I'm not sure I'd personally pay much
    > attention as to what you think about other cities...

i didn't think much of nice, really. certainly, i was immune to its
charms, although a hotel there was the catalyst for the renaissance
of my french. i also had the best meal of my life in a restaurant
there, considered as a taste-experience, but i was still starving
hungry when we left.

i'd go to anywhere on the ligurian coast before i ever went back, for
sure.

des

Des Small

Dubiously Fragrant Muffin <deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> writes:

    > On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:38:11 -0800, Go Fig <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    > >In article <[email protected]>, The Reid
    > ><[email protected]> wrote:
    > >
    > >> Following up to Miss L. Toe
    > >>
    > >> >Milano
    > >>
    > >> are you mucking about?
    > >
    > >Milan is one of my favorites.
    >
    > With all due respect, you have taste buds in your arse.

yebbut it's very handy for the beach.

des

Go Fig

In article <[email protected]>, Dubiously
Fragrant Muffin <deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:

    > On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:38:11 -0800, Go Fig <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    > >In article <[email protected]>, The Reid
    > ><[email protected]> wrote:
    > >
    > >> Following up to Miss L. Toe
    > >>
    > >> >Milano
    > >>
    > >> are you mucking about?
    > >
    > >Milan is one of my favorites.
    >
    > With all due respect, you have taste buds in your arse.


I'm sure, as I have said before, our Milan experiences were QUITE
different... I could afford more than 3 bucks for a beer. I had a very
nice 1 bedroom apartment around the block from P Repubblica and a nice
car to take me wherever I wanted to go and many talented and
interesting friends.

jay
Wed Mar 15, 2006
mailto:[email protected]

David Horne

Des Small <[email protected]> wrote:

    > [email protected] (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the
    > duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy) writes:
    >
    > > Des Small <[email protected]> wrote:
    > >
    > > > [email protected] writes:
    > > >
    > > > > Which three cities would you recommend I visit in Europe?
    > > >
    > > > Basingstoke, Volendam and Nice.
    > >
    > > Nice is perfectly charming. Are you kidding on the first two, or is it
    > > purposely a weird juxtaposition? Or, I suppose you may think that Nice
    > > is dreadful, in which case I'm not sure I'd personally pay much
    > > attention as to what you think about other cities...
    >
    > i didn't think much of nice, really. certainly, i was immune to its
    > charms, although a hotel there was the catalyst for the renaissance
    > of my french. i also had the best meal of my life in a restaurant
    > there, considered as a taste-experience, but i was still starving
    > hungry when we left.

'Best meal of my life' would not put a place in the worst-of-the-sausage
category for me, certainly. Did you go to the Chagall Museum? Did you
find the old town _that__ uninteresting?

    > i'd go to anywhere on the ligurian coast before i ever went back, for
    > sure.

Is the Ligurian Coast next to Nice then?

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

Dubiously Fragrant Muffin

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:22:08 -0800, Go Fig <[email protected]> wrote:

    >In article <[email protected]>, Dubiously
    >Fragrant Muffin <deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:
    >> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:38:11 -0800, Go Fig <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>
    >> >In article <[email protected]>, The Reid
    >> ><[email protected]> wrote:
    >> >
    >> >> Following up to Miss L. Toe
    >> >>
    >> >> >Milano
    >> >>
    >> >> are you mucking about?
    >> >
    >> >Milan is one of my favorites.
    >>
    >> With all due respect, you have taste buds in your arse.
    >I'm sure, as I have said before, our Milan experiences were QUITE
    >different... I could afford more than 3 bucks for a beer. I had a very
    >nice 1 bedroom apartment around the block from P Repubblica and a nice
    >car to take me wherever I wanted to go and many talented and
    >interesting friends.

You're typing this from the sun deck of the private yacht in the
Caribbean, aren't you?
--
---
DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com
---
--

Des Small

[email protected] (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy) writes:

    > Des Small <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    > > i didn't think much of nice, really. certainly, i was immune to its
    > > charms, although a hotel there was the catalyst for the renaissance
    > > of my french. i also had the best meal of my life in a restaurant
    > > there, considered as a taste-experience, but i was still starving
    > > hungry when we left.
    >
    > 'Best meal of my life' would not put a place in the
    > worst-of-the-sausage category for me, certainly.

i'd've rather had bangers and mash by the time i left, for sure.

    > Did you go to the Chagall Museum? Did you find the old town _that__
    > uninteresting?

i was mostly there for a conference and the hotel was a long long long
walk away through endless run down not-quite-seafront
not-quite-ghettos full of menacing loitering youths. i went to a
museum, but i don't remember what it was of. i didn't find the old
town especially engrossing - all i really remember of it was being
thwarted in my quest for stamps. (pas de timbres, pas de timbres, oh
la la!)

    > > i'd go to anywhere on the ligurian coast before i ever went back,
    > > for sure.
    >
    > Is the Ligurian Coast next to Nice then?

yes. or is that a trick question and some of the adjacent italian
coast is piedmont? (nice was intermittently in sardinia-piedmont,
isn't it?)

when i went to liguria i flew from stansted to genoa because easyjet
hadn't started their bristol to pisa flight, and a colleague from nice
had just come on the train and i worked out afterwards it would have
been just as easy to fly bristol-nice with easyjet and do likewise, so
in that somewhat me-oriented sense i consider them to be neighbours.

(i got severely ****ed-over by the trains in blighty on the way back on
that one isolated and by no means representative occasion, too, but
i'd better not start on that or you'll be calling me belgian or
something.)

des

Martin

On 15 Mar 2006 12:24:59 -0800, "eetinBelgi�"
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >Des Small wrote:
    >> S Viemeister <[email protected]> writes:
    >> > Des Small wrote:
    >> > >
    >> > > [email protected] writes:
    >> > >
    >> > > > Which three cities would you recommend I visit in Europe?
    >> > >
    >> > > Basingstoke, Volendam and Nice.
    >> >
    >> > And Milton Keynes?
    >>
    >> for sure.
    >>
    >> des
    >> 's shift key has died.
    >and Chelmsford

Charleroi.
--
Martin

Kristian

[email protected] wrote:

    >going to check out Tahiti. After that I want to visit Europe. Which
    >three cities would you recommend I visit in Europe?

Lisbon , Berlin and I�ll never tire of Paris.
--
Kristian

Martin

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:05:54 +0100, Dubiously Fragrant Muffin
<deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:

    >On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:22:08 -0800, Go Fig <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>In article <[email protected]>, Dubiously
    >>Fragrant Muffin <deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:
    >>> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:38:11 -0800, Go Fig <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>>
    >>> >In article <[email protected]>, The Reid
    >>> ><[email protected]> wrote:
    >>> >
    >>> >> Following up to Miss L. Toe
    >>> >>
    >>> >> >Milano
    >>> >>
    >>> >> are you mucking about?
    >>> >
    >>> >Milan is one of my favorites.
    >>>
    >>> With all due respect, you have taste buds in your arse.
    >>I'm sure, as I have said before, our Milan experiences were QUITE
    >>different... I could afford more than 3 bucks for a beer. I had a very
    >>nice 1 bedroom apartment around the block from P Repubblica and a nice
    >>car to take me wherever I wanted to go and many talented and
    >>interesting friends.
    >You're typing this from the sun deck of the private yacht in the
    >Caribbean, aren't you?

or a life raft?
--
Martin