England/Britain/London:
This place was the ultimate best vacation (holiday for the uncleansed) that we ever embarked on. The people were the more than friendly/helpful. The food was great. The weather was not foggy or rainy, chilly but none of the previous mentioned conditions. My son and I went into a local pub for a beer, the locals were watching NASCAR, the other TV's were showing a cricket match (which we were watching). The barkeep asked us for our order, we asked him to explain cricket to us. As he handed us our beers, he said he would explain cricket to us if we explained NASCAR to them. I never could figure out how he thought we weren't locals. I would go back there in a heart beat.
"Friendships come in strange packages
The best ones are opened with a smile"
NA4BH '15
I thought London was the capital of Paris...
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
The reason Brits drink warm beer:
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Encrypt everything. Even if you have nothing to hide. It increases the noise floor.
Blackpool Manchester and Liverpool would be on my list too. Blackpool for the British version of Coney Island, Manchester to visit the family and Liverpool to renew my Scouse creds. ;)
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
--Philip K. Dick
I think many people are pleased you bother to get around a bit and meet the natives rather than hiding away on a bus tour with an annoying guide person. We always get about in the US but never mistaken for locals
I just thought, can you imagine the reaction if I posted URL this on the "Z"? Probably some flaming from a red-neck neo-nazi?
What is there to explain about NASCAR? It's just "Go real fast, then turn left."
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.