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Skriven 2014-03-30 23:11:15 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 11435 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: weather or not 382
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 27 Mar 14  21:54:00 <=-

 NB>> Toronto is an interesting place...
 ML> Yet having been there a couple times I recall little
 ML> about it except that it was windy (not nearly so much
 ML> as Montreal, though).

Some places are more memorable than others...?   ;)
 
 NB>> Haven't seen a lot of it myself, except the airport...
 ML> But I do recall the airport reasonably well, though it's
 ML> probably been renovated once or twice since I was there.
 
I've been trying to remember the last time I was in that airport...
maybe '98 or so...?  It was my last trip to Britain, partly for my
niece's wedding, partly to cushion Mommy's first go at driving there,
partly to visit a friend, and partly to do some more genealogy
research... no doubt been renovated since that... :)

 ML>>> It was my dream as well, but one that constantly was put
 ML>>> on the back burner because of cost ineffectiveness.
 NB>>> Ah.  
 ML>> The farthest north I can get on this planet without hiring
 ML>> a dog team or a ski-plane.
 NB>> That does have a certain appeal...  ;)
 ML> And all I need is a .30-06, some goggles, and a fistful
 ML> of Kroner, and I can get even farther.

Some of that detracts from the appeal... ;)
 
 ML>> need didn't happen). I got an iskander kebab (layer of
 ML>> pita bread, layer of lamb gyro meat, layer of tomato,
 ML>> layer of yogurt, sheep butter drizzled over)
 NB>> That sounds pretty yummy...  ;)
 ML> I was dismayed by the amount of dairy product.
 
And the requisite application of pills thereto...?  :)

 NB>> At least it looked more "normal"... ;)  Probably by the time she
 NB>> thought to ask about the safety of the raw veggies she'd had some
 NB>> already...?  Fortunate that it was safe..  :)
 ML> Though you're sort of discouraged from drinking the water,
 ML> the country has tried on many fronts to make itself worthy
 ML> of membership in the EU. It got rejected anyway, but things
 ML> haven't really started to fall apart, except for the
 ML> moderate Islamists fighting the conservative Islamists.

If they can keep that under control, maybe another try would make it
into the EU...?  Besides, there are times when it seems to me that
perhaps some goals aren't so worthy of striving for after all (and not
just sour grapes...[g])...  They could still manage to have relative
food safety and such...  :)

 ML>> The burger was on a separate occasion, after we had escaped
 ML>> Turkey (the day before the protests ramped up again).
 NB>> You've actually had pretty good timing on these latest trips,
 NB>> especially given the unrest in weather and politics...  ;0
 ML> It was a little chillier than normal along the Aegean, but
 ML> not so bad as here. Politics, we watched the International
 ML> Women's Day marches, but that was a tame phenomenon, with
 ML> uniformed brass bands leading hundreds of woman in hijab,
 ML> and it took some time to figure out whether they were
 ML> celebrating or protesting, and what. We did walk by some
 ML> bunches of people shouting at each other, though. But there
 ML> as with in Thailand, we missed the major protests by a day
 ML> or two.

As I said, good timing.. :)

ttyl        neb

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