On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:10:37 +0530, "grusl" wrote:
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>"Martin" wrote in message
>news:qoar04htj49s1j74trifv2n9q8scmbrir6@4ax.com...
>> 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?
>>
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>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 was hoping somebody wouldn't start that bollocks again.
Greece is not really Asia.
>
>I don't find it to be true in Italy. Maybe I'm paying too much.
You are using both the wrong hotels and the wrong restaurants.
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Martin
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