"Martin" wrote in message
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> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:09:11 +0530, "grusl"
> wrote:
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>>
>>"Michael" wrote in message
>>news:674n3jF2mlv10U1@mid.individual.net...
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>>> While no guide is perfect, I've generally found the Rough Guides (my 1st
>>> choice) and Lonely Planets pretty reliable - but I use them for things
>>> to
>>> do and places to see, and rarely for hotels and restaurant
>>> recommendations
>>> (and as long as the former has a bed in the room and a lock on the
>>> bedroom
>>> door, and the latter doesn't poison me, I'm not too fussy anyway.)
>>>
>>
>>An admirable philosophy!
>>
>>I'm slightly more fussy when it comes to hotels, although the tiny
>>box-like
>>rooms found in places like Italy don't worry me
>
> I've never stayed in a tiny box-like room in Italy.
> Maybe you are paying too little?
>
It doesn't feel like it!
>>Food, however, is something to be engaged at full speed. I think one
>>advantage Asia has over Europe for me is transparency. An Asian restaurant
>>street front, broadly speaking, can give you a fair idea of what's on
>>offer - it could even be still wriggling about in a box - whereas European
>>restaurants shroud their inner workings in mystery.
>
> Not in Greece, Turkey and Italy.
Greece, I'd agree more but that's really Asia, anyway. It's only European
through geological accident.
I don't find it to be true in Italy. Maybe I'm paying too much.
Cheers,
George W Russell
Bangalore
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