Foreign Parts
Jun 3rd 2012 | 2:15 am
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Re: Foreign Parts
I've done quite a bit of commuting (and staying away) back in the days when my industry employed Brits instead of importing the ICT crowd.
I too used to hate staying overnight in a hotel, and not just because it was incredibly expensive. There is nothing better than waking up in your own place, where you know where to get your favourite cup of tea and help yourself to a slice of toast, even if you then have a 2 or 3 hour journey to work.
I too used to hate staying overnight in a hotel, and not just because it was incredibly expensive. There is nothing better than waking up in your own place, where you know where to get your favourite cup of tea and help yourself to a slice of toast, even if you then have a 2 or 3 hour journey to work.
Jun 3rd 2012 | 3:34 am
#32
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Jun 3rd 2012 | 3:50 am
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Jun 3rd 2012 | 11:08 am
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Re: Foreign Parts
According to a study which appears in El Mundo today, around half of all Spaniards have never this country in their lifetime. 10% have apparently never left their province (moving up to, I suspect, about 90% in my pueblo).
I can't imagine the numbers for the UK in comparison (or care less), but at least among us foreign residents, I'm proud to say... 'we've all been abroad'!
I can't imagine the numbers for the UK in comparison (or care less), but at least among us foreign residents, I'm proud to say... 'we've all been abroad'!
Jun 3rd 2012 | 10:15 pm
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Jun 3rd 2012 | 10:48 pm
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Re: Foreign Parts
Rank Country International tourist arrivals
1 France 76.82 million
2 United States 54.96 million
3 Spain 52.18 million
4 China 50.88 million
5 Italy 43.24 million
6 United Kingdom 28.20 million
7 Turkey 25.51 million
8 Germany 24.22 million
9 Malaysia 23.65 million
10 Mexico 21.45 million
I thought that I would check some of the "FACTS". I am sure that more than one person must have been overwhelmed by Spanish visitors taking their free holidays in Andalucian hotels along the Costa del Sol and all the other resorts on the med coast that provide them to Spanish pensioners.
If you look at the table above the Spanish seem to far outway us in taking holidays.
Maybe I live in a parallel universe.
Jim
Sorry Fred just used your quote as a coat hanger. Many apologies.
1 France 76.82 million
2 United States 54.96 million
3 Spain 52.18 million
4 China 50.88 million
5 Italy 43.24 million
6 United Kingdom 28.20 million
7 Turkey 25.51 million
8 Germany 24.22 million
9 Malaysia 23.65 million
10 Mexico 21.45 million
I thought that I would check some of the "FACTS". I am sure that more than one person must have been overwhelmed by Spanish visitors taking their free holidays in Andalucian hotels along the Costa del Sol and all the other resorts on the med coast that provide them to Spanish pensioners.
If you look at the table above the Spanish seem to far outway us in taking holidays.
Maybe I live in a parallel universe.
Jim
Sorry Fred just used your quote as a coat hanger. Many apologies.
Last edited by Bigger Jim; Jun 3rd 2012 at 10:51 pm.
Jun 3rd 2012 | 10:58 pm
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Re: Foreign Parts
Jun 3rd 2012 | 11:08 pm
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Re: Foreign Parts
Jim.
Jun 3rd 2012 | 11:23 pm
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Jun 3rd 2012 | 11:28 pm
#43
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Re: Foreign Parts
Rank Country International tourist arrivals
1 France 76.82 million
2 United States 54.96 million
3 Spain 52.18 million
4 China 50.88 million
5 Italy 43.24 million
6 United Kingdom 28.20 million
7 Turkey 25.51 million
8 Germany 24.22 million
9 Malaysia 23.65 million
10 Mexico 21.45 million
I thought that I would check some of the "FACTS". I am sure that more than one person must have been overwhelmed by Spanish visitors taking their free holidays in Andalucian hotels along the Costa del Sol and all the other resorts on the med coast that provide them to Spanish pensioners.
If you look at the table above the Spanish seem to far outway us in taking holidays.
Maybe I live in a parallel universe.
Jim
Sorry Fred just used your quote as a coat hanger. Many apologies.
1 France 76.82 million
2 United States 54.96 million
3 Spain 52.18 million
4 China 50.88 million
5 Italy 43.24 million
6 United Kingdom 28.20 million
7 Turkey 25.51 million
8 Germany 24.22 million
9 Malaysia 23.65 million
10 Mexico 21.45 million
I thought that I would check some of the "FACTS". I am sure that more than one person must have been overwhelmed by Spanish visitors taking their free holidays in Andalucian hotels along the Costa del Sol and all the other resorts on the med coast that provide them to Spanish pensioners.
If you look at the table above the Spanish seem to far outway us in taking holidays.
Maybe I live in a parallel universe.
Jim
Sorry Fred just used your quote as a coat hanger. Many apologies.
The table appears to indicate the number of foreign tourist arrivals in Spain, NOT the number of Spanish going on holiday.
Jun 3rd 2012 | 11:53 pm
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Jun 4th 2012 | 12:20 am
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Re: Foreign Parts
Try this then
Haggis is popularly assumed to be of Scottish origin, but there is a lack of historical evidence that could conclusively attribute its origins to any one place.
A serving of haggis, neeps and tatties
A stylized version of haggis, neeps and tatties
The first known written recipe for a dish of the name (as 'hagese'), made with offal and herbs, is in the verse cookbook Liber Cure Cocorum dating from around 1430 in Lancashire, North West England.[2]
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That makes him a bit older than most of us.
Jim
Haggis is popularly assumed to be of Scottish origin, but there is a lack of historical evidence that could conclusively attribute its origins to any one place.
A serving of haggis, neeps and tatties
A stylized version of haggis, neeps and tatties
The first known written recipe for a dish of the name (as 'hagese'), made with offal and herbs, is in the verse cookbook Liber Cure Cocorum dating from around 1430 in Lancashire, North West England.[2]
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That makes him a bit older than most of us.
Jim
