Miss L. Toe wrote:
I remember a really nice evening meal in a restaurant high on one of
the
hills overlooking Athens last time I was there - Sorry I can't remember
the
name, or which hill - maybe someone else knows it.

Probably Likavitos. We had lunch there once, but the view was poor
because of the smog.

George

"george" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > Miss L. Toe wrote:
    > I remember a really nice evening meal in a restaurant high on one of
    > the
    > hills overlooking Athens last time I was there - Sorry I can't remember
    > the
    > name, or which hill - maybe someone else knows it.
    > Probably Likavitos. We had lunch there once, but the view was poor
    > because of the smog.
    > George

Yup - that looks like it:

http://www.davidsanger.com/stockimag...likavitos.html

"Miss L. Toe" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > "Jordi" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    >> I will be going to Greece for the 1st time in about 4 weeks, from
    >> Monday to Friday and staying only in Athens.
    >> Sadly it will not be a holiday trip, but I hope to have enough spare
    >> hours to see something.
    >> Any must beyond the obvious Acropolis?
    > I remember a really nice evening meal in a restaurant high on one of the
    > hills overlooking Athens last time I was there - Sorry I can't remember
    > the
    > name, or which hill - maybe someone else knows it.
Was it Lycabettus?

"GG" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > "Miss L. Toe" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > > "Jordi" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > >>
    > >> I will be going to Greece for the 1st time in about 4 weeks, from
    > >> Monday to Friday and staying only in Athens.
    > >>
    > >> Sadly it will not be a holiday trip, but I hope to have enough spare
    > >> hours to see something.
    > >>
    > >> Any must beyond the obvious Acropolis?
    > >>
    > >
    > > I remember a really nice evening meal in a restaurant high on one of the
    > > hills overlooking Athens last time I was there - Sorry I can't remember
    > > the
    > > name, or which hill - maybe someone else knows it.
    > >
    > Was it Lycabettus?

I dont think so:

http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel...Hill-BR-1.html

but it was a few years ago.

Jordi wrote:

    > Tom Peel wrote:
    >
    >>Jordi wrote:
    >
    >
    >>>Also, I'm leaving this Sunday to UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrein and
    >
    > Saudi
    >
    >>>Arabia, but this is out of the scope of this ng.
    >>>J.
    >>Hi Jordi, sounds like you may be on a business trip? I just got back
    >
    >
    >>last night from Dubai, definitely a lot nicer than Saudi!!!
    >
    >
    > Exactly.
    >
    > I've been told so, so I will be finding that out by myself :)
    >
    > J.
    >
They've started work on The World's Tallest Building, and the World's
Largest Shopping Mall with an indoor skiing centre is nearly finished.
The World's Largest Condo park right behind Jumeira Beach resort is half
finished.
Crazy guys, these sheikhs. To deal with the traffic, they will now start
building The World's Longest Subway.

T.

Padraig Breathnach wrote:
Come on, folks, tell us what trips you are thinking of doing or have
done, and invite discussion.

The following weekend it's off to Pfalz, Germany and Bitche, France for
the weekend, later in the summer a Baltic cruise, and perhaps a trip to
London to see my daughter.

George

Padraig Breathnach wrote:
[snip]
    > Come on, folks, tell us what trips you are thinking of doing or have
    > done, and invite discussion.

4 weeks I'm off to visit the wife's daughter in Portland.

First of July I'm off to the Holy Land. Mayo, Connemara, and Galway,
for a 7 day self guided walking trip. Inn to Inn kinda thang where
they move your luggage for you each day and you walk about 10 -
12 miles each day. After that it's on to NYC via a 2 day stop in
Dublin. Probably 3 shows and 6 dinners for sure (NYC that is).
Bunch-o-lunch stops as well.

Juliana L Holm wrote:
Ah well, the plan is German (and my guess is the teachers will be
speaking
German. Certainly the students will.

This reminds me of a story an American friend told me when she first
moved to Germany to live. She took an accelerated course in German in
Stuttgart. She said that the students could then all speak with one
another, there was no problem, but couldn't speak to the Stuttgarters
because of their Schwabian dialect. Unfortunately, hochdeutsch has a
very limited geographical distribution.

George

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    > Padraig Breathnach wrote:
    > [snip]
    > > Come on, folks, tell us what trips you are thinking of doing or have
    > > done, and invite discussion.

I will say, that even despite the lower amount of traffic(which I haven't
directly noticed), that RTE is consistently better, brighter, faster, and
more reliable than many other newsgroups. The politics I could live
without, but a healthy dose of killfile entries have minimized this.

I am getting ready to book a trip very soon. I'd like to go to Europe, but
with the crappy dollar, and the fact that I only have about 7 days this trip
makes me think otherwise. I don't want to ride on a plane for 8 hours, both
coming and going, and only have five real days of vacationing. We love
London, and I've tossed the idea around about jumping over the pond for a
week. We've been to London a few times, and have seen all the major
attractions, so this would be mostly just hanging out. Perhaps if First
Class were cheaper..... :)

We have been doing the necessary research on Curacao, whose Guilder(or
Florin) is fixed at $1=1.77 ---and so the rate stays the same compared to
the US. The foreign exchange rate history for the last year is scary. It's
just about the only thing I've seen which is stable, of course, because it's
fixed.

Curacao is an island in the South Caribbean, just north of Venezuela in
South America. (yeah yeah, its OT) It's about 2.5 hours by plane South of
Miami, Florida. We were looking for something a little off the normal
cruiselines / package tours, and this is better than Aruba, Bahamas, St.
Maarten, etc.

Both Amsterdam (perhaps this is why we are going to Curacao?) and Eastern
Europe (we're thinking Poland) is slated for the Fall, money/time
permitting.

Anyone have any close (5-6 hour flight time from East Coast US) destinations
outside the US that aren't overrun with tourists in June, that preferably
aren't on the Euro?

Thanks.

Keith
Pittsburgh

This past October we spent the month in London, Paris, Barcelona, Zagreb,
Osijek, Dublin and Portrush (in that order). Pictures, but no narrative, at
http://travel.kemsleydesign.com/Europe2004.

In June, headed for a week each in Provence (Ile sur la Sorgue as our base),
Florence and Venice.


"Padraig Breathnach" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > There is always some noise in this group, and I suppose I do my share
    > in contributing to it.
    > It does, however, appear to me that we have been having relatively
    > little discussion of travel recently. It looks to me as if fewer
    > people than usual are discussing their plans or hopes for making
    > trips, or telling us about what they have been doing.
    > Come on, folks, tell us what trips you are thinking of doing or have
    > done, and invite discussion.
    > I'm off to Brittany in two weeks' time. Not much to say about it, I'm
    > afraid: it's familiar territory for me; I'll be spending most of my
    > time meeting friends; I'll be taking home a carful of wine. The
    > savings on the wine will cover to cost of the ferry so, in that sense,
    > it's a free trip.
    > --
    > PB
    > The return address has been MUNGED

"Padraig Breathnach" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > There is always some noise in this group, and I suppose
    > I do my share in contributing to it.
    > It does, however, appear to me that we have been
    > having relatively little discussion of travel recently. It
    > looks to me as if fewer people than usual are discussing
    > their plans or hopes for making trips, or telling us about
    > what they have been doing.
    > Come on, folks, tell us what trips you are thinking of
    > doing or have done, and invite discussion.

Though I suppose travel is more on-topic than, say, a comparison of British
and Americans in their preferences of bacon, much of my travel is off-topic
in that it's not in Europe.

I was recently in Dubai for three weeks (two business, one pleasure), though
I did stop in London for a day along the way, finally making my way up to
Camden to see the markets and the locks. I also had a nice walk in Hyde Park
and visited Parliament for an hour or so.

This past weekend was spent in Southern California, midway between San Diego
and Los Angeles. Much time was spent at Laguna Beach and by my hotel's pool
soaking up some sun, though I did have a chance to see a the Mission in San
Juan Capistrano, sample some excellent Mexican cuisine nearby and see some
stand-up comedy.

I just booked two trips - one to Saint John's (Newfoundland, Canada) in July
where I'll both be attending a friend's wedding and finally seeing a part of
my own country further than a day's car ride away. The other is a three-week
stay in Mexico this coming September where I'll likely concentrate on the
state of Oaxaca.

Much faster approaching is another trip to Dubai during the second half of
May. This one is for two weeks only is entirely business but I'm considering
a side-trip to Hatta during the weekend in the middle of my work. I would
like to take a longer stop in the UK this time, should I transit through
Heathrow as I did on my last trip. I'll likely research a few daytrips from
London since in my last few stays there I never ventured beyond zones 1 and
2 on the tube.

Finally, getting back on topic for this newsgroup, in November and December
I've a 5-week business trip to Toulouse, with the possibility of staying on
an extra week of my own time once the work is done.

Richard

george wrote:

    > This reminds me of a story an American friend told me when she first
    > moved to Germany to live. She took an accelerated course in German in
    > Stuttgart. She said that the students could then all speak with one
    > another, there was no problem, but couldn't speak to the Stuttgarters
    > because of their Schwabian dialect.

I had a British collegue in London many years ago. One evening, after a
couple of beers, he started to talk to me in Bavarian Swabian with a
very strong British accent. We discussed a while like that when another
collegue from Hamburg showed up.

"What are you guys talking?" she asked. "Do you actually understand him?
He once told me he spoke some German but I could understand no word and
thought he was just joking."

It turned out that he had lived in Augsburg for a while, working in
English, and all the "German" he knew he had picked up in inns and bars.
Far away from Hochdeutsch or anything somebody from Hamburg would
usually understand.

Jens
--
POTIVS AMICVM QVAM DICTVM PERDERE

Keith wrote:
Anyone have any close (5-6 hour flight time from East Coast US)
destinations
outside the US that aren't overrun with tourists in June, that
preferably
aren't on the Euro?

For European destinations, probably only Iceland qualifies. Even if
it's not on the Euro, it would be exceedingly expensive, but it
certainly wouldn't be overrun by tourists, especially in early June..

How about Ecuador, they use American dollars.

George

"Padraig Breathnach" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > Come on, folks, tell us what trips you are thinking of doing or have
    > done, and invite discussion.

My wife & I finally figured out that it was easier to move here. We had to
pack a lot more stuff but only once :)

Now, we just step out the front door and we are travelling, even if it's
only to the supermarket.

The only problem left is deciding where we will go for our holidays :)

T. (In Brittany)

4 weeks in France this May including Provence and the Riviera for the first
time.

A short trip to northern California in July.

Marianne