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From: "Michael McKelvy"
Date: 5/19/2004 11:56 PM Pacific Standard Time
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Date: 5/19/2004 7:43 PM Pacific Standard Time
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Date: 5/19/2004 3:37 PM Pacific Standard Time
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Date: 5/19/2004 8:42 AM Pacific Standard Time
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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.

Just like Paris?

Funny. I didn't really notice it in Paris. There were areas in Hong
Kong
where
the stentch was so bad that I had to walk around it for fear of
throwing
up.
They have a serious sewege problem there.

You need a better tour guide.

I was pretty happy with the one I had. Not his fault about the plumbing.

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.

Palette of the beholder Iguess.

I wonder if by alive you mean over-populated?

I mean it seemed like there was vitality.

It is the most densely
populated piece of real estate on earth.

Kinda like New Jersey.

You can live in a house in New Jersey yes? Those sixty story highrise
apartment
buildings in Hong Kong were just plain creepy to me. The population
density
there is just ridiculous.

People tend to flock where there's economic freedom I guess.
It never bothered me, the driving on the wrong side of the road did
though.
:-0

Maybe we drive on the wrong side of the road. Left side did come first all
be
it on horse back.

The only bargains I found were on high
end film camaras and silk products.

Used to be great values on home electronics and many products from
Europe.

Used to be.

I did find a lot of scam operations though.

Like New York City.

I haven't done much shopping in NYC

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.

Good for you.

Thank you. Hey, if you want to go there and you liked it before, more
power to
you.

All I was doing was giving my impressions.
You gave yours. In the end, they're worth what we each paid for them.

I guess but I was paid, I didn't pay.

I was talking about the opinions. Sheesh!

A, yeah, I know. You paid to go there when you formed your opinions and I was
paid to go there when I formed my opinions. Did you not realize that?