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From: erilar on 15 Jun 2010 19:43 In article <87qdfrFt1vU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Tom P <werotizy(a)freent.dd> wrote: > I guess the problem that you are addressing is that there is no > discussion here about travel, which requires that the people who > actually travel around Europe discuss it. I suppose I am guilty because > in the last 6 weeks I've been to Valencia, London, Bamberg and > Nuremberg, but I never felt the need to discuss the fact. Same here. There's nothing really notable about the fact that I went to Germany again other than that I had a great time, added some castles to my collection because I went places I had not been before(there are a few left), took nearly a thousand fotos, and ate Spargel several times. I'd forgotten because it's been a while since I was there during Spargel season how much I love it 8-) My spellchecker hates German words 8-) but I don't think of it as being much like what I've called asparagus for many decades. It's so much better! And even little green American asparagus is one of my favorite vegetables. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
From: erilar on 15 Jun 2010 19:54 In article <4d312db2-339c-4c79-a987-b97f80dea0a3(a)k39g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, george <gpolkowski(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > On Jun 14, 3:11�pm, erilar <dra...(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > ----snipped-------------------- > > SOME kind of travel discussion . �Want to discuss some great castles? �I > > have some new candidates I collected during two weeks in Germany this > > spring. > > OK, let's here about them. I'm always looking for new places to > visit. > > George Be afraid. Be very afraid. I'm liable to start gushing 8-) Two I would recommend to anyone anytime. Hotel Burg Hornberg above Neckarzimmern on the Neckar. Lovely hotel. Fantastic food. Inside the outer wall of a great ruin that belonged to Goetz von Berlichingen, he of the iron hand(he lost one in battle), rebel, who lived to an impossible age and left an autobiography, hero of Goethe's play of the same name. My only problem was that I STARTED there. Second one was also a Burg hotel, Burg Veldenstein just up a much gentler hill from Neuhaus/ Pegnitz (Pegnitz is the river below). Again the hotel is inside the outer walls and has some nice ruins. Family-run, friendly atmosphere, good food, local if that's what you want, and remarkably inexpensive for a castle hotel. I found a castle or many everywhere I went except Aalen, but I went there for Romans--the Limes museum. I'll stop now, but note: my trip album, a combination of trip diary and photographs, runs 79 pages not counting maps, brochures, and booklets. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
From: d4g4h4 on 15 Jun 2010 19:55 Tom P <werotizy(a)freent.dd> wrote: > David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) wrote: > > Tom P <werotizy(a)freent.dd> wrote: > > > >> I suppose I am guilty because > >> in the last 6 weeks I've been to Valencia, London, Bamberg and > >> Nuremberg, but I never felt the need to discuss the fact. > > > > Until now. > > > .. meaning that a discussion newsgroup is an oxymoron? <woosh> -- (*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate www.davidhorne.net (email address on website) "[Do you think the world learned anything from the first world war?] No. They never learn." -Harry Patch (1898-2009)
From: erilar on 15 Jun 2010 19:55 In article <33da1b5a-1adf-4f03-94ad-4d70d8038c2b(a)j8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, george <gpolkowski(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > No, I've never been to the Czech Republic, but there's hundreds around > where we llive in Stuttgart, most in ruins, so I've barely been able > to start v�siting them although I assemble books about them. 8-) Schwaben is great hunting ground for castle hunters. I've been there and found good hunting several times! -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
From: erilar on 15 Jun 2010 19:59
In article <1jk59ms.1c2wwcjgk1b86N%d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk>, d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote: after I said > > News videos? I > > almost never watch them. I get my moving news on TV. And if I wanted > > to watch something like that, I'd be much more likely to use my laptop. > > Why? The ipad is lighter and more portable, and with a screen size not > so far away from that of most laptops. If the ipad's manufacturers > actually bothered to support flash, it would be a pretty good > alternative to a computer for many people. I would have bought one for > my mum, for instance. She'd probably love it anyway 8-) No, my laptop screen is about twice the size of the iPad and I can multitask here. I just noticed today that it also loads youtube videos faster. Is that the flash thing? -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo |