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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: steve dave on December 05, 2012, 07:09:17 AM
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London - The dollar menu chicken sandwich at McDonalds is called a Mayo Chicken
Paris - Completely full of Asians
I'll field questions now (<-- !!!!)
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mercy reply
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you are in my prayers SD.
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Remain vigilant, SD.
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Any street cats?
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Any street cats?
none
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Who had the most smokers?
Did you see that cool urinal?
Best food you thought you'd hate but liked?
Worst food you thought you'd like but hated?
Coolest thing you thought would be uncool but was?
Uncoolest thing you thought would be cool but was not?
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full plane and airport lounge reports please.
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beer
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What was your favorite thing that you saw? Tasted? Heard? Smelled? Touched?
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Is it true that no french women shave their legs/armpits?
Did you ever go in the countryside and find old french rifles that were dropped during wwII?
Did you ask for Freedom Fries? :lol:
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Who had the most smokers? 100% of parisians smoke. pretty cool. felt like a loser not smoking. :frown:
Did you see that cool urinal? not that one but at claridges in london the urinals were the tall ones that go from like chest high to the floor and they had, like, pee guards over your feet. sort of a reverse salad bar sneeze guard. wanted to take a pic but the bathroom attendant was staring me down.
Best food you thought you'd hate but liked? those steak and ale pies sound gross but are good.
Worst food you thought you'd like but hated? some cheese in paris smells like worse than the worst thing you've ever smelled. barf city. :barf:
Coolest thing you thought would be uncool but was? tower of london, those beefeater guys are a riot. :D
Uncoolest thing you thought would be cool but was not? the louvre. I mean, the mona lisa, etc. is a huge snooze fest. also apparently the "r" is silent or something? :zzz:
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Who had the most smokers? 100% of parisians smoke. pretty cool. felt like a loser not smoking. :frown:
Did you see that cool urinal? not that one but at claridges in london the urinals were the tall ones that go from like chest high to the floor and they had, like, pee guards over your feet. sort of a reverse salad bar sneeze guard. wanted to take a pic but the bathroom attendant was staring me down.
Best food you thought you'd hate but liked? those steak and ale pies sound gross but are good.
Worst food you thought you'd like but hated? some cheese in paris smells like worse than the worst thing you've ever smelled. barf city. :barf:
Coolest thing you thought would be uncool but was? tower of london, those beefeater guys are a riot. :D
Uncoolest thing you thought would be cool but was not? the louvre. I mean, the mona lisa, etc. is a huge snooze fest. also apparently the "r" is silent or something? :zzz:
Oh man, I hate smoking but I def would have picked it up temporarily in that situation to feel cool.
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full plane and airport lounge reports please.
I think I like Lufthansa business class better than AA first class. Both pretty great though. I put on AA pajamas for the flight from DFW to London :D AA DFW termy D lounge was great. they put the cats basketball game on one of the tvs in the bar and on the sound. took a shower at the AA arrivals lounge at Heathrow. day would have sucked ass without that place. like, at customs my bag was waiting for me when I got off the plane because we were flying in first and we got to go through the customs line with zero people and then get to use the arrivals lounge and get coffee and breakfast and take a shower and stuff. would have felt like garbage until we could check in at 3PM without it. Lufthansa lounge in CDG and Frankfurt were kind of meh because we were just in business class. free snacks and booze and whatever but kind of packed with people.
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Did you go knock on the door of a random German family and assume you were related and just stay for a couple days?
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beer
UK "real ales" or whatever they always talk about are garbage. tried about 10 of them. all gross. very bland and all kind of taste like a beer that has been poured about 4 hours ago and just kept cold'ish. Even the IPAs were flavorless pieces of crap. Only good beers were Meantime beers http://www.meantimebrewing.com/ which I'm a fan of.
Paris had elite beers everywhere because they just serve all belgians. Had quite a few winter seasonal belgian strong darks that I really liked.
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beer
UK "real ales" or whatever they always talk about are garbage. tried about 10 of them. all gross. very bland and all kind of taste like a beer that has been poured about 4 hours ago and just kept cold'ish. Even the IPAs were flavorless pieces of crap. Only good beers were Meantime beers http://www.meantimebrewing.com/ which I'm a fan of.
Paris had elite beers everywhere because they just serve all belgians. Had quite a few winter seasonal belgian strong darks that I really liked.
thanks, steve dave
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Did you see any punk rocker London kids?
Did you risk the "non-black cab" cabs? :ohno:
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Best American food that you had?
Worst American food that you had?
How did you get to France? If chunnell, did it feel claustrophobic?
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Is it true that the rain in Spain falls mostly in the plain?
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Good call drinking the Belgians in Paris. When I have been in Europe, I always like to try the local beers. This worked out ok in Croatia/Greece/Italy. In France, they were the most god awful crap I've ever had.
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Your trip reports are always better than mine. :frown:
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he can't quit us
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Did you get to watch the KSU Cats football team?
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do they really never use ice? :runaway:
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sorry to be "that" guy, but why would you guy to a mcdonalds in a different country? expand your horizons or whatever, sd.
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going to mcdonald's in europe counts as expanding your horizons, imho
(but only just once to see what the menu is like)
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Did you see any punk rocker London kids? nope, kinda disappointing
Did you risk the "non-black cab" cabs? :ohno: yep. guy kept talking on his phone while driving us around and the people he talked to all had hilariously british names (iphone was in a dash holder so we could read their names). One was Big Robert and one was Minty.
Also:
Best American food that you had? porterhouse at Hawksmoor (http://thehawksmoor.com/locations/seven-dials) . the waitress asked if we would like her to describe the specials and the menu and we said yeah and she went in explaining the different cuts of steak and I was all "lmao, I went to kstate, gtfoomf with this explaining what the difference between a porterhouse and a t-bone is (not really, I just sat there politely while she told me but that's what I basically said to her with my eyes prolly)"
Worst American food that you had? ehh, probably an omelet (is that american? seems like it is). they don't cook their bacon properly.
How did you get to France? If chunnell, did it feel claustrophobic? eurostar train throught he chunnel. didn't seem closterphobic at all. only really under it for about 15 minutes. train goes really freakishly fast. makes me want to ride one of those asian ones that go way faster.
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do they really never use ice? :runaway:
not with the water. don't recall seeing it with any of the sodas people had either.
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sorry to be "that" guy, but why would you guy to a mcdonalds in a different country? expand your horizons or whatever, sd.
idea I had was to foursquare check in at, like, GAP and McDonalds and Pizza Hut and every other American place in Europe and post them all to facebook but Mrs. Dave said her friends wouldn't get it or think it was funny and she would be embarrassed. :rolleyes:
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when you were eating that steak, any thoughts of mad cow disease?
i know whenever i eat european beef, it's the first thing i think of.
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when you were eating that steak, any thoughts of mad cow disease?
i know whenever i eat european beef, it's the first thing i think of.
hmmmm, no. didn't think of that. may have it now?
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you might, t's and p's
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Post pics of cool/interesting crap please & could you rate your experience thus far.
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Please post Mad Cow related symptoms in a new thread should anything arise. TIA
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sorry to be "that" guy, but why would you guy to a mcdonalds in a different country? expand your horizons or whatever, sd.
I'll wager that he tried about a bagillion different and new things. But, I find it amusing to visit McDonalds, in particular, in other country's to get their take on Americana. KFC's and Subway's are fun too.
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sorry to be "that" guy, but why would you guy to a mcdonalds in a different country? expand your horizons or whatever, sd.
I'll wager that he tried about a bagillion different and new things. But, I find it amusing to visit McDonalds, in particular, in other country's to get their take on Americana. KFC's and Subway's are fun too.
Subways are all the rage in Sweden
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Did you use the subway/metro systems in the places you went? How were they (ease of use, convenience of station locations)?
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Did you use the subway/metro systems in the places you went? How were they (ease of use, convenience of station locations)?
yeah, used them in both. both very easy. some of the ones in Paris are basically commuter trains while others feel like a normal subway/metro. the only ones that were a pain in the ass that we used was the picaddily line in London. you had to go up/down an elevator instead of stairs/escelator to get to it at some stations so it sucked to wait for one and then pile in like sardines. got a couple oyster cards in london and you just flash them in front of the machine to get on. worked on the tube and busses. in paris we got books of tickets and you had to run them at the beginning and sometimes the end of the usage and onetime mrs. dave trashed hers after getting on and I laughed at her for being an ignorant stupid american. never used the bus in paris.
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sorry to be "that" guy, but why would you guy to a mcdonalds in a different country? expand your horizons or whatever, sd.
I'll wager that he tried about a bagillion different and new things. But, I find it amusing to visit McDonalds, in particular, in other country's to get their take on Americana. KFC's and Subway's are fun too.
we didn't actually go into a McDonalds, just saw the different items on the outside. they also have a chicken sandwich that's special for xmas called a "celebration chicken" and a burger called the "mexican"
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the chicken and chutney indian :runaway:
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the chicken and chutney indian :runaway:
yeah, that one really caught my eye
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Australians get credit for BBQ internationally? This possibility had not occured to me
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now that you're back, can we get a motherfucking 5 at the top of the message board? good grief
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now that you're back, can we get a motherfucking 5 at the top of the message board? good grief
hmmmm, maybe
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also, did you ever come across one of those gyro-type pizzas? i don't remember exactly what they're called, but i've seen them in every country i've been to, they are there, and delicious.
here's one:
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fsphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-ash3%2F5891_668533910691_2941070_n.jpg&hash=fc7c4aa79a3d34e3c5ae222c9cde92e179491d4f)
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Australians get credit for BBQ internationally? This possibility had not occured to me
allo mate! throw another shrimp on the Bar-B!
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sd are your BBS juices recharged? feel great to come back to a board full of (https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2FgoEMAW.com%2Fforum%2FThemes%2Fchemical_light%2Fimages%2Fenglish%2Fnew.gif&hash=51cbaeb2ac7c1ad700eabac91be6fb4e6bc18013)'s ?
it can sometimes can be a bit overwhelming, i know, i know
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If I ever go to Cairo, you can bet your ass I'm getting a McArabia and reporting about it here. Like, immediately.
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List out the stuff that you recommend to see in London and France for future reference...want to make sure I hit them.
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british indian food, ate here for lunch twice. elite chicken madras that will burn your face off with the heat of a thousand suns.
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g186338-d720360-Reviews-Punjab-London_England.html
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also, did you ever come across one of those gyro-type pizzas? i don't remember exactly what they're called, but i've seen them in every country i've been to, they are there, and delicious.
here's one:
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fsphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-ash3%2F5891_668533910691_2941070_n.jpg&hash=fc7c4aa79a3d34e3c5ae222c9cde92e179491d4f)
hmmm, no. didn't see anything like this.
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sd are your BBS juices recharged? feel great to come back to a board full of (https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2FgoEMAW.com%2Fforum%2FThemes%2Fchemical_light%2Fimages%2Fenglish%2Fnew.gif&hash=51cbaeb2ac7c1ad700eabac91be6fb4e6bc18013)'s ?
man, hope so. feels like maybe? gonna be a complete disaster at the office thursday and friday but hopefully in a couple weeks I can commit 80% of amy usual workday to BBS again.
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sys, I had a two hour layover in Frankfurt :D
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indian food is so disgusting, i bet there were about 10 million in england that feel the same way as i do (that indian food is disgusting).
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also, did you ever come across one of those gyro-type pizzas? i don't remember exactly what they're called, but i've seen them in every country i've been to, they are there, and delicious.
here's one:
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fsphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-ash3%2F5891_668533910691_2941070_n.jpg&hash=fc7c4aa79a3d34e3c5ae222c9cde92e179491d4f)
hmmm, no. didn't see anything like this.
Does that have french fries on it?
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How did the people smell?
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How did the people smell?
how does your face smell?
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Australians get credit for BBQ internationally? This possibility had not occured to me
Australian " barbecue" is what we refer to as grilling. Steaks, burgers, etc.
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sys, I had a two hour layover in Frankfurt :D
that's nice. i hope you caught a social disease from a prostitute.
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Did you get to watch the KSU Cats football team?
:clocktappingguy:
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How did the people smell?
pretty good actually. didn't run across anyone super smelly.
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Did you get to watch the KSU Cats football team?
:clocktappingguy:
missed this post. no, I did not. clams set up his elgato tv thing for me to watch on my phone but I didn't because it didn't start until 2AM Paris time. :frown:
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also, did you ever come across one of those gyro-type pizzas? i don't remember exactly what they're called, but i've seen them in every country i've been to, they are there, and delicious.
here's one:
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fsphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-ash3%2F5891_668533910691_2941070_n.jpg&hash=fc7c4aa79a3d34e3c5ae222c9cde92e179491d4f)
hmmm, no. didn't see anything like this.
Does that have french fries on it?
yes
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Were people like "Oh, you're an American? Awesome!" or "Oh you're an American? Screw you bra."
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Were people like "Oh, you're an American? Awesome!" or "Oh you're an American? Screw you bra."
nobody really acknowledged it one way or the other
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What was the language barrier like with the Frogs? Pretty rough?
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did you do any etp recommendos?
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What was the language barrier like with the Frogs? Pretty rough?
no, pretty pud. most everyone spoke at least basic English and those that didn't we could get by with my sophomore year of HS French 1 retained knowledge and hand gestures.
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did you do any etp recommendos?
I don't remember
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did you do any etp recommendos?
I don't remember
:dubious:
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did you do any etp recommendos?
I don't remember
:dubious:
I'm sure we probably did but I don't remember what your specific pro-tips were. still buds!
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sd, did you see any sweet castles?
Also did you go to the Moulin Rouge? :fatty:
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sd, did you see any sweet castles? tower of london I guess?
Also did you go to the Moulin Rouge? went by it but didn't go in. looked like a dump.
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If I ever go to Cairo, you can bet your ass I'm getting a McArabia and reporting about it here. Like, immediately.
:lol:
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also, did you ever come across one of those gyro-type pizzas? i don't remember exactly what they're called, but i've seen them in every country i've been to, they are there, and delicious.
here's one:
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fsphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-ash3%2F5891_668533910691_2941070_n.jpg&hash=fc7c4aa79a3d34e3c5ae222c9cde92e179491d4f)
those are amazing, it's basically crust, gyro meat, a special thousand island type dressing and then whatever else you want. It seems like every pizza joint in Sweden is owned by middle eastern types that sell these
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also, did you ever come across one of those gyro-type pizzas? i don't remember exactly what they're called, but i've seen them in every country i've been to, they are there, and delicious.
here's one:
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fsphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-ash3%2F5891_668533910691_2941070_n.jpg&hash=fc7c4aa79a3d34e3c5ae222c9cde92e179491d4f)
those are amazing, it's basically crust, gyro meat, a special thousand island type dressing and then whatever else you want. It seems like every pizza joint in Sweden is owned by middle eastern types that sell these
yeah now that you mention it maybe it was just Sweden, although I thought i remember it in Amsterdam & Berlin as well. could be wrong. effing delicious though.
sorry for semi-hijacking the thread SD. carry on.
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It's nice having you back, SD. You were missed.
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Did you see any punk rocker London kids? nope, kinda disappointing
Did you risk the "non-black cab" cabs? :ohno: yep. guy kept talking on his phone while driving us around and the people he talked to all had hilariously british names (iphone was in a dash holder so we could read their names). One was Big Robert and one was Minty.
Also:
Best American food that you had? porterhouse at Hawksmoor (http://thehawksmoor.com/locations/seven-dials) . the waitress asked if we would like her to describe the specials and the menu and we said yeah and she went in explaining the different cuts of steak and I was all "lmao, I went to kstate, gtfoomf with this explaining what the difference between a porterhouse and a t-bone is (not really, I just sat there politely while she told me but that's what I basically said to her with my eyes prolly)"
Worst American food that you had? ehh, probably an omelet (is that american? seems like it is). they don't cook their bacon properly.
How did you get to France? If chunnell, did it feel claustrophobic? eurostar train throught he chunnel. didn't seem closterphobic at all. only really under it for about 15 minutes. train goes really freakishly fast. makes me want to ride one of those asian ones that go way faster.
Where did you get the omelet? I thought the UK bacon was much better than ours
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Where did you get the omelet? I thought the UK bacon was much better than ours
the waldorf hilton
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Big Mac = Royale with cheese
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sys, I had a two hour layover in Frankfurt :D
that's nice. i hope you caught a social disease from a prostitute.
doubtful, I barely slept with any prostitutes at all.
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full plane and airport lounge reports please.
I think I like Lufthansa business class better than AA first class. Both pretty great though. I put on AA pajamas for the flight from DFW to London :D AA DFW termy D lounge was great. they put the cats basketball game on one of the tvs in the bar and on the sound. took a shower at the AA arrivals lounge at Heathrow. day would have sucked ass without that place. like, at customs my bag was waiting for me when I got off the plane because we were flying in first and we got to go through the customs line with zero people and then get to use the arrivals lounge and get coffee and breakfast and take a shower and stuff. would have felt like garbage until we could check in at 3PM without it. Lufthansa lounge in CDG and Frankfurt were kind of meh because we were just in business class. free snacks and booze and whatever but kind of packed with people.
AA pajamas huh? that's great. i have a bunch of AA lounge passes that are going to expire before i even get to use them. if anybody want some let me know.
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full plane and airport lounge reports please.
I think I like Lufthansa business class better than AA first class. Both pretty great though. I put on AA pajamas for the flight from DFW to London :D AA DFW termy D lounge was great. they put the cats basketball game on one of the tvs in the bar and on the sound. took a shower at the AA arrivals lounge at Heathrow. day would have sucked ass without that place. like, at customs my bag was waiting for me when I got off the plane because we were flying in first and we got to go through the customs line with zero people and then get to use the arrivals lounge and get coffee and breakfast and take a shower and stuff. would have felt like garbage until we could check in at 3PM without it. Lufthansa lounge in CDG and Frankfurt were kind of meh because we were just in business class. free snacks and booze and whatever but kind of packed with people.
AA pajamas huh? that's great. i have a bunch of AA lounge passes that are going to expire before i even get to use them. if anybody want some let me know.
Yeah, it was great. handed out AA branded bose headphones too.
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Did anyone try to scam you while you were in Paris? What scams were they running?
I must've had "sucker" tattooed across my forehead when I was there, because practically every two steps in public places someone tried to scam me. People tried to "help" me with the metro and then ask for money, even though I knew how to use the metro and people did this scam with fake gold rings.
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Did anyone try to scam you while you were in Paris? What scams were they running?
I must've had "sucker" tattooed across my forehead when I was there, because practically every two steps in public places someone tried to scam me. People tried to "help" me with the metro and then ask for money, even though I knew how to use the metro and people did this scam with fake gold rings.
no, didn't experience any of that personally. did see one of those shell game things where the guy has the three cups or whatever and one has the thing under one and is moving them all around and his (obvious) bud was acting like he just walked up and started betting 50 euros at a time and winning a couple times and then losing on an easy one while people looked on. was pretty lol. saw another guy get busted in the face by someone on the street and three cops with machine gun looking guns (no idea what qualifies as a machine gun) had the guy who got decked up against a fence and I guess he tried to rob the other guy or whatever.
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also saw what I guess was a huge group of gypsies in London who were getting kicked out of a park. I assume they were gypsies because the guys were yelling stuff like "get out of here you rough ridin' gypsies" etc.
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Did any of the gypsies wear a leather jazz cap and look really scuzzy while being totally dreamy?
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Did any of the gypsies wear a leather jazz cap and look really scuzzy while being totally dreamy?
no?
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Did any of the gypsies wear a leather jazz cap and look really scuzzy while being totally dreamy?
no?
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i have a bunch of AA lounge passes that are going to expire before i even get to use them. if anybody want some let me know.
yes, send me two, please.
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did you feel like a giant?
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did you feel like a giant?
a bit
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You see any Papa Johns? I had to get a new credit card a couple weeks back because some hooligan in England got a hold of my card # and tried to buy a crap ton of papa johns with it.
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You see any Papa Johns? I had to get a new credit card a couple weeks back because some hooligan in England got a hold of my card # and tried to buy a crap ton of papa johns with it.
Hmmm, no. Just pizza hit for American pizza chains. Also, in France, they have a fast food place called Quick that Tony Parker is the pitchman for. His face is everywhere advertising for the Tony Burger.
http://www.projectspurs.com/2012-articles/november/video-behold-the-tony-parker-tony-burger.html
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what time did the sun rise/set?
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I thought you were going to go to a soccer game on this trip?
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I thought you were going to go to a soccer game on this trip?
do this. unbelievable experience watching a match with the pitch right there.
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was it fun?
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what were the concessions like for the home match against swansea on saturday? do their nachos look like ours?
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Did you go to Rome?
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any soccer hooliganism?
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in France, they have a fast food place called Quick.
i used to love them.
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Follow up question -
Are you still an Arsenal superfan after witnessing them get crushed by Swansea first hand?
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what time did the sun rise/set?
like, 8 AM'ish and 5 PM'ish iirc
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I thought you were going to go to a soccer game on this trip?
no, I've been to about a million already.
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was it fun?
YES! :D
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Did you go to Rome?
no
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If I ever go to Cairo, you can bet your ass I'm getting a McArabia and reporting about it here. Like, immediately.
Don't make me come start a civil war in your neighborhood, too.
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Did you notice anyone super upset about all the Socialism?
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Did people care more or less about the environment than Americans do?
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Did you notice anyone super upset about all the Socialism?
no
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Did people care more or less about the environment than Americans do?
didn't get a strong feel one way or the other
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who were the best/worst looking people?
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who were the best/worst looking people?
there was this really hot guy with a rocking suit on my flight into London. worst was probably the old begger people in Paris who intentionally make themselves seem worse looking to improve their begging results?
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Overall, where do people eat the healthiest? Omaha, London, or Paris? Did you see more organic food over there?
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did it rain like 24/7/365?
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did it rain like 24/7/365?
light rain 2 or 3 days but not bad.
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Overall, where do people eat the healthiest? Omaha, London, or Paris? Did you see more organic food over there?
well, Omahaians smoke less
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in paris, did you go to Centre Pompidou? Montmartre? sounds like you went to the louvre so i'm guessing you hit the rue de rivoli?
did you ride the metro?
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My apologies for the low sdiq, but have you been overseas prior to this trip? I have never vacationed overseas, but have traveled a few times, the first trip was strange, and I think I was worried about coming off as a :opcat: to foreigners and a noob to international travel, the following trips were more enjoyable. Your thoughts?
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My apologies for the low sdiq, but have you been overseas prior to this trip? I have never vacationed overseas, but have traveled a few times, the first trip was strange, and I think I was worried about coming off as a :opcat: to foreigners and a noob to international travel, the following trips were more enjoyable. Your thoughts?
Yes, I have. No, never felt weird or anything.
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in paris, did you go to Centre Pompidou? Montmartre? sounds like you went to the louvre so i'm guessing you hit the rue de rivoli?
did you ride the metro?
went by the Centre Pompidou but didn't go in. crazy looking place. Went to Montmartre and walked around. lots of street vendor type stuff there and a ton of asian tour groups of roughly 100 people following around another asian guy walking with a sign on a stick he is holding in the air. walked down rue di rivoli a few times, lot of elite hotels on it and right off it and rich person shops. used the metro a lot. pretty easy to navigate but they don't have a lot of rail (compared to London or NYC or other large cities) so you are walking a ton even if you take advantage of it whenever possible. our hotel was right by a station for the primary east/west line so that was pretty great.
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Did you see any international cat fans sporting emaw swag?
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did you have a street vendor turkey baguette in paris?
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Did you see any international cat fans sporting emaw swag?
no, saw one in DIA on the way home though!
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did you have a street vendor turkey baguette in paris?
no, but I kept telling mrs. dave I was going to get one of those baguette's with two (!) hotdogs in it covered with cheese but didn't.
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If I go to Hershey, PA this summer, would you guys like a recap thread?
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If I go to Hershey, PA this summer, would you guys like a recap thread?
very weird place, used to go there a fair bit
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Does nobody go to Rome anymore? I need a Rome report.
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If I go to Hershey, PA this summer, would you guys like a recap thread?
yes please
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Does nobody go to Rome anymore? I need a Rome report.
There's an Italy thread around here somewhere. Search "termini" because, in the thread, Kougs asked everyone where to stay and then completely ignored everyone's advice not to stay by the train station.
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If I go to Hershey, PA this summer, would you guys like a recap thread?
yes please
Oh, sweet! I will then!
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If I go to Hershey, PA this summer, would you guys like a recap thread?
go to the track thingy and recruit emaw a new addition for clams' all-burner team
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If I go to Hershey, PA this summer, would you guys like a recap thread?
yes please
Oh, sweet! I will then!
trip report threads are not open to every poster fwiw. I will merge some of your reports into the travel thread if you don't meet the minimum arbitrary qualifications I set. if you are worried your report will get merged you can ask me before posting if yours will qualify.
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Does nobody go to Rome anymore? I need a Rome report.
i go to rome, what do you need reported?
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Does nobody go to Rome anymore? I need a Rome report.
i go to rome, what do you need reported?
trip report threads are not open to every poster fwiw. I will merge some of your reports into the travel thread if you don't meet the minimum arbitrary qualifications I set. if you are worried your report will get merged you can ask me before posting if yours will qualify.
Smart move by sys not to start his own trip report thread. SD totally would have merged it.
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no, sys goes to rome deserves its own thread
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Does nobody go to Rome anymore? I need a Rome report.
i go to rome, what do you need reported?
Just basically like overrated vs. underrated stuff. I want to go to all the historical things but I obviously won't have time. Which are the good/fun historical things and which are the bad?
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the churches are all free, so hit those when you run into them until you get bored. def. go to st peters even if you have to stand in line (but try not to stand in line too long). go to the top of it while you're there. there is a small 3rd or 4th century church in the suburbs that i went to once that was cool. i can find the name and location if you're interested. the pantheon is an incredible building. you can sneak into the colesseum at night and have it to yourself, so do that. the forum is right there, so you'll probably want to hit it, even though it's kinda overrated (cool stuff, but too crowded to enjoy). the baths of some emperor were pretty cool if you're down in that part of town. i liked walking along the via appia in the area outside the walls where there's a bunch of aqueduct arches.
a lot of times, you can just kinda wander around seeing stuff and it's mostly all old. went somewhere once that was like a museum and behind it was a garden with old marble sculptures and domestic rabbits hopping around the garden. didn't go in the museum, but the garden was enjoyable. hopped a wall and walked around a monastery or something with fruit trees and stray cats. also nice. just stuff like that is fun. don't go when it's hot.
try to avoid the bad pizza and to eat a shitload of the good.
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try to avoid the bad pizza and to eat a shitload of the good.
:thumbs:
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we had a pass that allowed us to jump the line at the vatican. i didn't buy it so i'm not sure if it was worth it.
trevi fountain is neat, but it will be too crowded if you go in the evening. the spanish steps are a nice place to sit, but they didn't do much for me.
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The ladies in Rome are unbelievable.
If anyone is going to Italy any time soon I suggest you plan a few days in Positano. About 1.5hrs south of Naples on a crazy ass cliff road leads you to probably the coolest town there is. Google some pics and be sure you spend both nights at Music on the Rocks. The only bar/club in the surrounding cities is right down by the water. Doesnt open till late but has all the locals and some crazy house techno stuff.
Partied with a guy that was looking for a place to "summer his yacht" when we were there. :kstategrad:
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Just got back from ATL this week - some bananas crap went down. I'd be happy to recap.
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Just got back from ATL this week - some bananas crap went down. I'd be happy to recap.
GO!
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the churches are all free, so hit those when you run into them until you get bored. def. go to st peters even if you have to stand in line (but try not to stand in line too long). go to the top of it while you're there. there is a small 3rd or 4th century church in the suburbs that i went to once that was cool. i can find the name and location if you're interested. the pantheon is an incredible building. you can sneak into the colesseum at night and have it to yourself, so do that. the forum is right there, so you'll probably want to hit it, even though it's kinda overrated (cool stuff, but too crowded to enjoy). the baths of some emperor were pretty cool if you're down in that part of town. i liked walking along the via appia in the area outside the walls where there's a bunch of aqueduct arches.
a lot of times, you can just kinda wander around seeing stuff and it's mostly all old. went somewhere once that was like a museum and behind it was a garden with old marble sculptures and domestic rabbits hopping around the garden. didn't go in the museum, but the garden was enjoyable. hopped a wall and walked around a monastery or something with fruit trees and stray cats. also nice. just stuff like that is fun. don't go when it's hot.
try to avoid the bad pizza and to eat a shitload of the good.
Thanks. The colosseum at night sounds amazing. I get really annoyed and angry in big crowds of people so any time I can avoid them I will. Just peacefully walking around in ancient gardens with rabbits hopping around sounds like heaven.
Also can you tell just by looking what pizza is good and what pizza is bad?
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Ok - well I'll just hit the highlights.
* One night I had dinner at a Jason's Deli by my hotel. This very fat person wen't up the counter and asked for a large empty soup cup. She proceeded to walk over to the soft serve yogurt thingy and completely fill it and then walked out. i was all :surprised:
* The evening before I went to dinner and when I parked my rental car the rough ridin' keys wouldn't come out of the ignition. It wouldn't start either so I couldn't just drive back to the hotel and say eff it. I was furious. I called the Rental Agency and started bitching to the poor guy on the phone. THEN - I look down and realized I didn't put the car in park :blindfold:. Crisis averted. This happens to me a lot with cars that I am not familiar with.
* On the flight home last night I got a free beer from the flight attendant since I thought I had drink tickets left. She was all 'dont worry about it' :gocho:
Thanks everyone for reading my stories.
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Super 'dorbs, AJ!
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Ok - well I'll just hit the highlights.
* One night I had dinner at a Jason's Deli by my hotel. This very fat person wen't up the counter and asked for a large empty soup cup. She proceeded to walk over to the soft serve yogurt thingy and completely fill it and then walked out. i was all :surprised:
* The evening before I went to dinner and when I parked my rental car the rough ridin' keys wouldn't come out of the ignition. It wouldn't start either so I couldn't just drive back to the hotel and say eff it. I was furious. I called the Rental Agency and started bitching to the poor guy on the phone. THEN - I look down and realized I didn't put the car in park :blindfold:. Crisis averted. This happens to me a lot with cars that I am not familiar with.
* On the flight home last night I got a free beer from the flight attendant since I thought I had drink tickets left. She was all 'dont worry about it' :gocho:
Thanks everyone for reading my stories.
good recap AJ
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* On the flight home last night I got a free beer from the flight attendant since I thought I had drink tickets left. She was all 'dont worry about it' :gocho:
i was on a recent 4 hour flight where they forgot to bring the credit card reader. free drinks!
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Did you get to watch the KSU Cats football team?
:clocktappingguy:
missed this post. no, I did not. clams set up his elgato tv thing for me to watch on my phone but I didn't because it didn't start until 2AM Paris time. :frown:
stevedave, i was in paris during the cats game and watched it on my laptop...man i would have enjoyed some company. i was searching the streets for fellow EMAWs, but of course the parisians were too busy smoking their mommies (as the brits like to call it) and eating mushy omelettes.
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SD,
how many points did you burn at each hotel/flight?
Thanks,
Raquetcat
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SD,
how many points did you burn at each hotel/flight?
Thanks,
Raquetcat
oh yeah, this.
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SD,
how many points did you burn at each hotel/flight?
Thanks,
Raquetcat
2 1st class tickets OMA to LHR on AA - 125k AA miles
5 nights at Waldorf Hilton in London - 200k Hilton Points
5 nights at Holiday Inn Notre Dame in Paris - 125k PC Points
2 business class tickets CDG to OMA on Lufthansa - 100k United miles
paid about $100 for 2 eurostar train tickets from London to Paris. about $130 in cab fare for both airport transfers. about $200 for tube/metro passes/tickets.
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Did you get to watch the KSU Cats football team?
:clocktappingguy:
missed this post. no, I did not. clams set up his elgato tv thing for me to watch on my phone but I didn't because it didn't start until 2AM Paris time. :frown:
stevedave, i was in paris during the cats game and watched it on my laptop...man i would have enjoyed some company. i was searching the streets for fellow EMAWs, but of course the parisians were too busy smoking their mommies (as the brits like to call it) and eating mushy omelettes.
If I had known this I would have invited you to do something Parisian with us!
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can you tell just by looking what pizza is good and what pizza is bad?
a lot of times, yes. but you will be tempted by the bad. so, there are two types of pizza sellers. the ones where you go in and sit down and eat your own individual round pizza with a carafe of wine and the ones where you stand up and order your pizza by the gram (actually the 100 gram increment) and then either stand there eating the pizza or you walk away eating your pizza.
with the second kind, it's usually pretty easy to tell. if it's a normal eating time, and there aren't a lot of people waiting to buy pizza, it probably isn't very good. they should definitely be bringing fresh pizzas out constantly to cut and sell. not standing by a couple of cold pizzas that they'll heat up for you. and they should either be selling mostly red pizza or mostly white (or mostly both). but not mostly pizzas with toppings. that's not to say you can't get good pizza with lots of toppings at somewhere where no one else is buying, but it's risky. it's kinda hard to find one of these places that's good. there's like one good one in every neighborhood that everyone eats at and maybe 9 that may or may not be good, but that don't have crowds of people at them, so it's chancy. if it's not a tourist area, then there is just the one good one.
it's harder with the sit down pizza sellers. follow a guide book, or an internet recommendo, or try to get a look at some of the pizzas before you enter and sit down. if you see a ton of people there it's probably good, unless it's in a heavy traffic area. it probably won't be open for lunch if it's good. if they sell a bunch of other food besides pizza, that's riskier too.