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From: "Michael McKelvy"
Date: 5/19/2004 8:42 AM Pacific Standard Time
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"S888Wheel" wrote in message
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From: "Michael McKelvy"
Date: 5/18/2004 3:45 PM Pacific Standard Time
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"Schizoid Man" wrote in message
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I have not taken a holiday in ages and wanted to take 3 weeks off in
August/September and do a European country. The choices right now are
Italy,
Greece and Spain.

Any suggestions? I had planned on renting a car and driving around
rather
than jumping on an organized tour. Any recommendations?

Actually, I wanted to mention France too, but I figured I would have
drawn
fire from the likes of McKelvy!

I doubt if France has suffered any serious tourism drop because of the
fact
there government is wimpy on terrorism.

If I were taking a vacation abroad, my choices, for what it's worth,
would
be Ireland or Hong Kong.

why Hong Kong?

Because I enjoyed it immensely the 2 times I was there before.

One of the most alive cities you can imagine, great bargains on many items,
especially clothing.

Beautiful geography. Great entertainment. Great food.
What's not to like?

The smell of sewege for starters. I like the skyline but I didn't find the
landscape to be particularly interesting at all. I was not crazy about the food
one bit. I wonder if by alive you mean over-populated? It is the most densely
populated piece of real estate on earth. The only bargains I found were on high
end film camaras and silk products.I did find a lot of scam operations though.
Now if I were asked to go back there again for work I would, but I would not
consider a trip there on my own dime. I will say this for Hong Kong though, it
was the only place I could make listening comparisons between a Rockport Sirius
III, a Clear Audio Master Reference and a Forsell Air Reference all with the
same cartridge. I did enjoy that and found it quite enlightening.