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Post by hwinpp on Jan 22, 2012 5:46:19 GMT
That was good, ha, ha, ha.
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Post by onlymark on Jan 22, 2012 7:23:45 GMT
I checked the flight by EasyJet from Gatwick to Luxor. It departs at 10:00 and arrive at 16:36 on the same day. I know that the time in Egypt is 7 hours ahead of London. I think the posting arrive time is not the local time. Would some one tell me what time will the flight arrive in Luxor?
Ah bless. First time travellers, don't you just love the way they never get their facts right. I'm being patronising though. We all had to start somewhere.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2012 12:33:11 GMT
Maybe they were talking about London, Ontario.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2012 5:39:16 GMT
sarahbaby77 about 8 hours ago I WISH YOU COMPLIMENT OF THE SEASON WITH GREAT JOY IN MY HEART FOR COMING IN CONTACT WITH YOU at www.lonelyplanet.com AND I HAVE A SPECIAL REASON OF CONTACTING YOU WHICH I WILL MAKE KNOWN TO YOU WHEN I GET YOUR RESPOND ON MY EMAIL ADDRESS(sarah.osah@yahoo.com)THERE I WILL TELL YOU EVERYTHING ABOUT ME AND THE REASON OF CONTACTING YOU.Sarah GOD BLESS YOU DEAR sarah.osah@yahoo.com
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Post by Kimby on Apr 5, 2012 6:18:38 GMT
So, you DID contact her right away didn't you?
She might have come into a great deal of money that she needs your help getting out of her country, and will give you half of it, just for letting her use your bank account.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2012 7:20:44 GMT
Nah, I thought some of you other people might need it more than I.
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Post by tod2 on Apr 5, 2012 7:59:16 GMT
Her message sounds like one of those pesky emails that slip through the radar from Nigeria.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2012 17:09:08 GMT
This was actually a tweet:
Jeff Doyleþ@Jdoyleactor
Feeling sad today,my hamster has died. Well, technically he's not dead, but I have run out of hamster food, so it's only a matter of days now.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2012 17:02:04 GMT
Some people are really weird. 12. Re: You know you've been spending too much time on TA when... May 09, 2012, 1:35 PM I love TA! I have gotten some great advice from so many people but Kerouac2 has been especially helpful! A couple weeks ago over dinner I was telling my guy something that Kerouac had emailed to me and I "dropped his name" like I he was some Movie Star and that I had known him forever! Pat laughed for an hour afterwards!
This forum has made my trip planning not only easier but has given it so much more excitement! Paris - see you in June 2013! By that time maybe some of you will be "dropping my name"!
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Post by Kimby on May 25, 2012 12:18:28 GMT
Yeah, I hear that "kerouac guy" is one of the wierdest! ;-)
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2012 13:17:12 GMT
Frankly, those other sites are frightening.
FrenchMystiqueTours2 on May 22, 12 at 9:55pm Maybe you'll meet a French gentleman in the near future Then you can apply for a long stay visa for spouses of a French national. It's much easier to get. That's the visa my American husband got to move to France.
Maybe you can marry Kerouac...?
Coquelicot on May 22, 12 at 10:03pm I think she'd have to get in line to marry kerouac.
katkat1950 on May 22, 12 at 10:16pm "Maybe you'll meet a French gentleman in the near future "
Or maybe I'll win the lottery. (It could happen!) Or maybe I'll make a lot of friends here and someone will know someone who knows someone who's willing to give me a couch to sleep on until I find a place.
Or maybe... maybe... my brother, who is a Canadian citizen, but who also lived in Europe (Germany) for a year, will want to go back and we can go together and help each other financially.
Life is mysterious. That much I've learned after six decades of it. You never know what will happen, or what can.
"Maybe you can marry Kerouac...? "
LOL! Well, I like what I glean about his political views.
katkat1950 on May 22, 12 at 10:17pm "I think she'd have to get in line to marry kerouac."
Oh, whoa! Okay..... [/color]
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2012 21:19:10 GMT
She can dream. If Kerouac won't marry me, he won't anyone. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2012 11:14:03 GMT
The music in Europe is not censored and there are words in songs that I didn’t know were there.
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Post by lugg on Jul 26, 2012 6:32:27 GMT
"Cataplana - No Heads ”
We love seafood, but dislike heads on our fish. Do Cataplanas generally include fish with heads? Any suggestions on where to get a good cataplana?
Would restaurants be offended if you ask them to remove heads from fish?
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Post by Jazz on Aug 18, 2012 20:04:42 GMT
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Post by htmb on Aug 19, 2012 2:14:58 GMT
How did I ever miss that thread (and how glad I am that I did)
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Post by Don Cuevas on Aug 19, 2012 10:21:19 GMT
"And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana."
If I've told you once, I've told you a million times: don't exaggerate.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2012 19:38:09 GMT
An Irish pearl from Twitter:
Jeff Doyleþ@Jdoyleactor
I'm off to THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA this Saturday. Twinkie's for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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Post by htmb on Aug 27, 2012 19:46:44 GMT
I have never eaten a Twinkie. I doubt if anyone in my immediate family has either.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2012 19:53:43 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2012 17:53:22 GMT
This was excellent:
Just returned from from a month in France and Italy. This is my first trip to Europe from North American, so I wanted to share my observations and opinions to maybe help others prepare for their trip, so here they are: - European dual flush toilets are disgusting. Whoever thought not using much water in a toilet bowl should be shot. Nasty streaking and smells, just gross. - The service model for restaurants doesn't work. In North America, service is generally customer oriented, friendly greetings, dedicated hostesses, and smiling waiters. This is generally not true in Europe due to the absence of the 15-20% tip incentive. Makes for a much less pleasant experience. - This is not a myth. French people do like you much better if you try to speak French. Most sandbag and say they know 'little' english, but actually they know quite alot. Notice how many people on Fodors say they were lucky to find a person in the shop who happened to know english. They all really do, they just don't want to use it. - Paint spray cans need to be abolished in Europe. I am not sure if this is because of the large amount of unemployed youth, but graffiti is everywhere, especially lining the train routes. Also, about every shopkeeper security door had graffiti on it in Paris and Rome. It's a problem in North America too in the inner cities, but it seems much more prevalent in Europe population areas. - Food is overrated. Italian pizza, pasta, french brazziere food IMO is generally average at best at the typical accessible tourist spots. If you have a favorite italian restaurant in North America, you are sure to be disappointed by the food in Italy. - Why no ice in drinks in Europe? Doesn't everyone enjoy water and soda better when it is icy cold. Especially in concrete jungle Rome where it can be blazing hot. - The train system in Europe is great. It is embarrasing we can't have a public transportation system anywhere as good that in NA. - French women don't smell bad. According to my observation, this myth is busted. They are also smartly dressed and attractive. - What is with the fascination with Tartare foods in Paris, especially hamburger tartare? Haven't the french heard of trichinosis? - The french police find it amusing that Roma gypsy girls are stealing American IPhones from Americans. If you are robbed in Paris, I bet you won't be in a hurry to return or recommend the city to others. This means less tourist dollars next year for French businesses. Not so amusing in the long run, is it? - What we call historical in North America is recently built in Europe. In my town, we are fighting to save an 'historical' barn that was built 100 years ago. In Rome, you can dine next to a 2000 year old pagan temple. We having nothing that compares. I really loved both countries and would return in a heartbeat.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2012 17:16:19 GMT
Here is a real pearl for once, instead of a "ha-ha-isn't-this-ridiculous" pearl: Paper and pen were faithfully brought all the way from Oz, but alas, I have succombed to the digital world. I admit that unless I use the keyboard (even if it is only on my smartphone), this trip has little hope of being recorded.
All the places that I've visited so far have been packed with tourists, so why the title? It is because 'The Road Less Travelled' refers more to the journey within. I am a cloistered Benedictine nun on sick leave for a short time from the monastic enclosure. During my leave, my Dad was diagnosed with a very aggressive and advanced form of cancer. Although sad, it was actually providential that our illnesses coincided, because I was able to support him through his treatment. Normally I would have been in the enclosure. It had been an 18 year journey on this little trodden path. I have been sent as the founding member of 3 monasteries and have lived in Australia, New Zealand, UK, the Andes in Ecuador and the desert of Peru. The greatest and toughest journey was the one leaving the monastery for the first time in 15 years. Three years ago I saw the internet for the first time and sent my first email. It took me three months to work out how to turn on the TV, so many buttons and no dials. It took ages to figure out the multiplicity of new verbs such ad 'Google it'. People thought I was odd because I look fairly young but was behaving like some of their grandparents. It will soon be time to return to our beautiful peaceful way of life. So before the time comes I desired to make a few pilgrimages. The first intention was for my Dad and his health. The next for the renewal of my vows. The third was given to me by my superior general (the big boss after the Lord and the Pope). When I told Mother General about this trip, she said, 'Why not get a group together and make a pilgrimage in honour of Mother Foundress.' Mother Foundress is the wonderful person who founded our Congregation, her name is Marie Adele Garnier.
I said to M.General,' Mother, I can't even get one person to travel with me, how will I get a group!' With typical matter of factness ' Well, just pray'. And do you know, the very next day 3 people said they would go. But, not this year, next year. So my third task is a kind of reconnaissance, to organize the big group tour for next year. At the moment I'm in a hotel in Cassino, Italy, beneath Monte Cassino, the heartland of Benedictine monasticism. But I'm still jetlagged and I have to catch a train early in the morning, so my account of my first few days in Italy will have to wait until I get to Sorrento. Until then, goodnight and God Bless.
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Post by htmb on Oct 14, 2012 19:15:39 GMT
This is lovely, Kerouac. Certainly different from the "Do you ever feel overdressed in Paris" thread. Would you mind sharing the name of the forum where it was posted?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2012 19:54:57 GMT
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Post by htmb on Oct 14, 2012 21:25:17 GMT
I had that thought, too, and hope it proves to be genuine. Thanks for the link.
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Post by mich64 on Oct 14, 2012 23:06:53 GMT
I recognized the link right away Kerouac, I read it last night. I too am so hoping she is legitimate (no reason yet to believe not) because it would be amazing to read her thoughts and experiences.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2012 19:08:18 GMT
What a shame -- it looks like the poster may have been unmasked as a troll after all. A bit too soon to be sure, though, but her reaction to the challenge was not convincing.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2013 14:26:31 GMT
This is one of the strangest uses of quotation marks that I have ever seen. I also love the word custormers. I've seen a few of those. I have stayed at your motel twice and "both" times I was served by the young girl named "Jonnette". She does her job "very well", and because of her the "first" time handling a "minor" problem, I came back to use your location again. She is the "type" of employee I "enjoy" meeting. She needs a "raise" in pay, because she goes the "extra" miles for the custormers.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2013 19:31:04 GMT
Mary Charlene þ@IamEnidColeslaw TWITTER GIRLS: IF WE ALL SYNC UP OUR PERIODS, WE CAN DROWN THE INTERNET IN A RIVER OF BLOOD
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Post by htmb on Jul 15, 2013 20:28:29 GMT
Mary Charlene must be one classy girl. And here I thought Twitter was a complete waste of time.
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