[lit-ideas] Re: Travel instead of war...(was something less cheerful)
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:03:44 +0100 (BST)
Good title change, Ursula; yes, something more
cheerful.
<i>It was April of 2001 </i>
Ah. I was here but somewhat tied up, perhaps
fortunately; I'm useless at showing people around
Cardiff because I walk everywhere and find it hard to
switch to "what can be done by car" mode. Cardiff's
an ideal city for walkers but some things are a fair
way from the centre.
Bath, Tintern Abbey, and Monmouth are all really fine.
> Do they still have the peacocks on the castle
> grounds?
Yes.
> I was limping around Cardiff as I'd fairly seriously
> twisted my ankle in
> Bath.
ah, nasty; so you won't really have been able to see
much and you'll have stayed in the centre, not seen
the Bay. (There's no neighbourhood linking the rest of
the city to the Bay, just a rather ugly road; a great
shame.) The Bay has changed a lot since then but has
always been worth seeing.
We're
> off to Paris, Berlin, Riga and Avignon this August.
I envy you Avignon, I went there briefly years ago.
I'd like to spend a month in Languedoc and Provence,
but can't see that happening. (Though I've done some
whistle-stop touring, the best being
London/Frankfurt/Milan/Venice just before Christmas, I
prefer to stay in one place for at least a week. I get
bored, but still prefer it.)
(Not much wax paper here these days)
> Where are others
> off to? What are you taking along to read? What
> place would you
> recommend to the undecided?
I'm probably not going anywhere this year, I hope to
next year. So I'll play tourist here, go to the
festivals in the Bay and find more good coffee-houses
and walk in the parks.. Recommendations? Difficult.
The places I like the best, I liked before they became
touristy or became too touristy: Prague, the Languedoc
coast, ? (My mind's seized up; the heat, the heat.)
Salzburg, goodness.
They handed out the candies with
> much fanfare,
> suspecting that we'd never seen such (even though,
> right on the package
> it said Made in Germany). The toilet paper they
> proceeded to show
> around and then coyly explained it's use to my
> mother.
Wonderful!, and of course your nother was polite... I
can't think of any travel stories but that is, again,
because it's hot here, I'll have an iced drink and
ponder
Judy
--- Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Your answer motivated me to actually look back to
> find when I was
> there. It was April of 2001 and we visited London,
> Oxford, Bath,
> Cardiff, Tintern Abbey and Monmouth, Cheltenham and
> the Cotswolds.
> Do they still have the peacocks on the castle
> grounds? Unfortunately,
> I was limping around Cardiff as I'd fairly seriously
> twisted my ankle in
> Bath.
>
> This list of destinations added quite a few places
> to my Life List of
> Unesco Heritage Sites. I think I'm in the forties
> somewhere. Anyone
> else keep such a list? Let's talk travel instead of
> war... We're
> off to Paris, Berlin, Riga and Avignon this August.
> Where are others
> off to? What are you taking along to read? What
> place would you
> recommend to the undecided? Tell us your travel
> horror stories.
> Let's talk about bathrooms and toilet paper in
> foreign cultures. The
> wax paper in England. The corrugated paper in
> Germany. The lack of
> paper in Turkey.
>
> I'll begin with a story from long, long ago. (It
> has both travel and
> toilet paper in it) When I was six, my parents
> dragged our family of
> seven across the ocean (from Salzburg) and plunked
> us down in a little
> basement apartment on the South Side of Chicago.
> Some ladies from the
> local Lutheran Church welcomed us and brought us
> (this is 1954) candies
> and toilet paper. They were
> kindhearted, but probably had never been outside of
> Chicago. They handed out the candies with
> much fanfare,
> suspecting that we'd never seen such (even though,
> right on the package
> it said Made in Germany). The toilet paper they
> proceeded to show
> around and then coyly explained it's use to my
> mother.
> Your turn,
> Ursula
>
> Judith Evans wrote:
>
> >Cardiff changes daily but you'll have seen much of
> the
> >new Cardiff (luckily, Roath Park hasn't changed)
> then.
> >The Bay though probably hadn't really got going.
> >
> >You probably saw Bute Park, by the castle -- if you
> >were here briefly, that is.
> >
> >Doctor Who is mainly filmed in Cardiff and nearby,
> but
> >I've never been around at the time.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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