"Martin" wrote in message
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> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:24:48 +0530, "grusl"
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Martin" wrote in message
>>news:45kr04l37o00aauipf9r6cremct2ehcnae@4ax.com...
>>> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:12:11 +0530, "grusl"
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>"Martin" wrote in message
>>>>news:86ir04pbp2geel580bch1msrhfvhhuafk5@4ax.com...
>>>>> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:36:56 +0530, "grusl"
>>>>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>"Martin" wrote in message
>>>>>>news:40hr04h6vcen3inu9ldiaf4ohpba2rlf59@4ax.com...
>>>>>>> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:51:07 +0200, "Tim C."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:37:00 +0200, Martin DID NOT write:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>Greece, I'd agree more but that's really Asia, anyway. It's only
>>>>>>>>>>European
>>>>>>>>>>through geological accident.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Which geological events were planned?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Tim, I didn't write the bit you quoted it is utter bollocks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Of course it's bollocks. It was a blatant troll.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I do tend to aim at the lower end of Italian hotels,
>>>>>
>>>>> You probably aim a bit too low then.
>>>>
>>>>Maybe. It was the Hotel Primus on via Giovanni da Empoli in Ostiense.
>>>>The
>>>>rate in mid-2006 was ?125 a night, which I thought was extravagant for
>>>>such
>>>>a modest little box, shower stool notwithstanding, even in midsummer.
>>>>Helpful desk staff, though, which was a plus.
>>>>
>>>>About 20 years ago I splurged on the Grand Hotel Principe on the Lista
>>>>di
>>>>Spagna in Venice, which was superb. Rooms like apartments. It was
>>>>211,600
>>>>lire a night, with tax, in April 1986.
>>>
>>> Our travel office located mafia owned hotels, in the Rome area, built
>>> for
>>> money
>>> laundering, we normally paid a third of the advertised price.
>>
>>Ah well, being self-employed I rely on myself - or the knowledge of
>>friends - to book trips. And Rome was such short notice I didn't even have
>>time to ask around here.
>
> I avoid staying right in the centre of the tourist rip off areas.
Me too
Cheers,
George W Russell
Bangalore
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