AL Gore is all that is wrong with the Democrat Party.

LOVEMYIRISH · Mar 4, 2007

IRISHDODGER said:
Roundabouts sound good on paper, until our beloved elderly get on the roads & it the roundabouts totally blow their mind. Talk about chaos & my insurance rates are high enough as it is!

It's a tough learning curve, but I LOVE ROUNDABOUTS. I have logged about 6,000 miles on British roads over my last 4 vacations there...I simply love them.

stonebreakerwasgod · Mar 4, 2007

wow, you guys have been busy!

The Fly · Mar 4, 2007

lattedatte said:
Thank you Mr literal.

Just making sure. There are some folks who are just that radical. I wanted to make sure you weren't one of them.

lattedatte · Mar 4, 2007

The Fly said:
Just making sure. There are some folks who are just that radical. I wanted to make sure you weren't one of them.

Absolutely not. Trust me I'm not ok with outrageous gas taxes for example.

lattedatte · Mar 4, 2007

LOVEMYIRISH said:
It's a tough learning curve, but I LOVE ROUNDABOUTS. I have logged about 6,000 miles on British roads over my last 4 vacations there...I simply love them.

Heading over for two weeks in June. I like it over there. though munich has been my favorite international travel location.

stonebreakerwasgod · Mar 4, 2007

Munich is awesome, London is pretty cool too. Salzburg was a pretty scenic place.
Paris............not so much!

LOVEMYIRISH · Mar 4, 2007

stonebreakerwasgod said:
Munich is awesome, London is pretty cool too. Salzburg was a pretty scenic place.
Paris............not so much!

I have not been to Munich, but I lived in London for a while. I also spent a few days in Paris 2 years ago.

London is nice, but Paris is amazing. Shockingly the people were nicer in Paris. I was floored, I expected them to be the French version of New York (rude and arrogant)...but they were not that at all.

London is a great place to take a brief visit, but the best part of visiting Britain is getting out into the countryside.

portlaNDgal · Mar 4, 2007

LOVEMYIRISH said:
I have not been to Munich, but I lived in London for a while. I also spent a few days in Paris 2 years ago.

London is nice, but Paris is amazing. Shockingly the people were nicer in Paris. I was floored, I expected them to be the French version of New York (rude and arrogant)...but they were not that at all.

London is a great place to take a brief visit, but the best part of visiting Britain is getting out into the countryside.

My brother is a traffic engineer. We were in Paris 2 years ago and he could not stop taking pictures of all the oddball intersections and traffic signals.

lattedatte · Mar 4, 2007

LOVEMYIRISH said:
I have not been to Munich, but I lived in London for a while. I also spent a few days in Paris 2 years ago.

London is nice, but Paris is amazing. Shockingly the people were nicer in Paris. I was floored, I expected them to be the French version of New York (rude and arrogant)...but they were not that at all.

London is a great place to take a brief visit, but the best part of visiting Britain is getting out into the countryside.

I have found that it just depends on your experience. i found the french to be very rude. I try to break things down to the lowest common denominator(going out to eat).

I have been to Ireland, Germany, England, France and the Neths(amster.). The service in general is much different across the pond becuase servers make much more income off their paycheck rather than tips vs. the U.S. But I found the service in general to be the worst, by far, in France.

Public trasportation is phenomenial over there, on time 99.99% of the time or at least it seemed that way.

You have to go to munich and eat at Al Pacino's, just to say you ate at Al Pacino's.

stonebreakerwasgod · Mar 4, 2007

LOVEMYIRISH said:
I have not been to Munich, but I lived in London for a while. I also spent a few days in Paris 2 years ago.

London is nice, but Paris is amazing. Shockingly the people were nicer in Paris. I was floored, I expected them to be the French version of New York (rude and arrogant)...but they were not that at all.

London is a great place to take a brief visit, but the best part of visiting Britain is getting out into the countryside.

You must have visited Paris after we liberated them.

LOVEMYIRISH · Mar 5, 2007

stonebreakerwasgod said:
You must have visited Paris after we liberated them.

LOL

The key, I think, was that I always tried to speak a little French. And my French is so bad they are happy to speak to me in English after I utter a broken sentence or two.

New York is the worst of all the big cities though. My family even hails from there (some still live there)... You can't PAY me to go on vacation there.

Germany, Austria, and Spain are on the list my wife and I have of places not seen but that we want to visit.

Brussels was nice, but a bit boring after 3 days.

TexasDomer · Mar 5, 2007

LMI,

I've spent time in London, Munich and Brussels for business, and I can tell you that the most friendly folks were in Munich and Brussels--if you tried to speak their language. It's harder in Brussels, since half speaks French and the other Flemish, but since the EU is there, just about everyone speaks English and will cut you off if you struggle to converse, but they'll give you credit anyway.

Munich was wonderful, especially since it was December, and the Christkindlmarkt was going on. Cold weather, light snow, lebkuchen (a cookie that tastes a bit like licorice) and gluhwein (mulled wine served warm). It was a lot of fun.

In Brussels, I agree that is can be boring. You can only go to the Grand Place so many times. I took a side trip to Waterloo to see where Napoleon was finally defeated, and that was interesting.

Central London is great and there's lots to do there: Westminister Abbey, Hyde Park, Parliament, Buckingham Palace, Covent Garden, Picadilly Circus and the like. But I agree, the best way to see England or the rest of Britain is out in the countryside. Cheshire is a nice area, and the main city, Chester, is built on an old Roman garrison. Parts of the Roman wall are still up and serviceable. You can walk exactly where some poor centurion pulled guard duty in the early first or second century AD.

stonebreakerwasgod · Mar 5, 2007

London was my favorite after Munich, there is so much to do there, and they don't give you crap if you can't speak english, of course I can't speak cockney.

notredomer23 · Mar 5, 2007

I heard London was basically a NYC just not as diversified.

GoshenGipper · Mar 5, 2007

LOVEMYIRISH said:
LOL The key, I think, was that I always tried to speak a little French. And my French is so bad they are happy to speak to me in English after I utter a broken sentence or two.

Tu ne parl francais? Je parl un petit francais, und Ich spreche auch deutsches wenig.

stonebreakerwasgod · Mar 5, 2007

I can't even hope to compete with that! Eins bier bitte?

TexasDomer · Mar 5, 2007

GG,

Ah! Ich spreche Deutsch auch. Ich habe zwei jahre in der Universitat studiert. Meine Grammatik ist nicht sehr gut. Es gefahlt mir, Deutsch zu sprechen.

Deutsch ist eine schoene sprache, nicht wahr?

stonebreakerwasgod · Mar 5, 2007

Donde esta el bano?

GoshenGipper · Mar 5, 2007

TexasDomer said:
GG,

Ah! Ich spreche Deutsch auch. Ich habe zwei jahre in der Universitat studiert. Meine Grammatik ist nicht sehr gut. Es gefahlt mir, Deutsch zu sprechen.

Deutsch ist eine schoene sprache, nicht wahr?

I only took it for a year in high school to get a higher level diploma. I can't remember much of it now, so my grammer isn't very good either but I liked it much more than my 2 1/2 years of French, and I wish I would have taken more German than French. I was also able to pick up both the speaking and grammer aspects of the language quicker than I did in French. I still get a little bit of practicwe from time to time though because some of my friends used to be amish so they often speak an American dialect of Dutch at home and it can be very similar to German. The only time I used it in a real life situation was to hit on a hot blonde German girl at O'Hare Airport.

stonebreakerwasgod said:
I can't even hope to compete with that! Eins bier bitte?

What, hasn't everybody taken 2 1/2 years of French, a year of German, and a half a year of Japanese?

stonebreakerwasgod · Mar 6, 2007

Going to school in calif, it is almost mandatory that spanish is taken. Hell, english is becoming a second language in some parts. (yikes)

stonebreakerwasgod · Mar 6, 2007

You know SLH hasn't been around when we are talking about languages and not calling each other names normally reserved for sc or michigan.

The Fly · Mar 6, 2007

stonebreakerwasgod said:
You know SLH hasn't been around when we are talking about languages and not calling each other names normally reserved for sc or michigan.

The mods 'ixnayed ethay olltray'

That's my contribution to the foreign language portion of IE.

LOVEMYIRISH · Mar 7, 2007

The Fly said:
The mods 'ixnayed ethay olltray'

That's my contribution to the foreign language portion of IE.

Well, he's visited, but not posted. I only gave him a 1 day ban to cool off.

HereComeTheIrish · Mar 7, 2007

LOVEMYIRISH said:
Well, he's visited, but not posted. I only gave him a 1 day ban to cool off.

He posted yesterday in the Cwynar thread.

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