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Subject: Re: Lonely Planet rebuts 'fake' claim Posted on: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:07:25 +0000 (UTC)


"SMS" wrote in message
news:48037cf2$0$36348$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...
> youarethecheekyboys wrote:
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7346101.stm
>>
>> snip
>>
>> He says that after having . with a waitress on a table after hours,
>> he reviewed the restaurant with the words "the table service is
>> friendly".
>>
>> snip
>
> It wasn't much of a rebuttal at that web site.
>
> I remember being in China once and the LP guide book was hopelessly out of
> date despite being an up-to-date edition in terms of publication date. I
> checked subsequent editions which had the same errors. I.e., one hotel I
> was looking for had not only changed names several years earlier, but even
> the street that it was on had changed names. Try telling a taxi driver to
> take you to a non-existent hotel on a non-existent street.

It works in India.

They change the street names more often than they change their shoes but
everyone usually uses the old names anyway...

--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.