billmacfarlane
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Whatever country you move to to live the "dream" , it'll be full of local people complaining just like we do.
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This country and why people live here..NB
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Sea Devil
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I love and am proud of my country but... I wandered down to my boat this morning in shirt sleeves to a marina berth in the middle of town that costs less than £1500 a year and had a glass of excellent wine from a bottle costing €5 euro!!.
The natives are very friendly, charming and helpful, the women elegent and or beautiful and most items in the local chandlerys are less than the UK! the food is wonderful and the cost of housing even in this expensive town is a fraction of the UK equivent. I love the sea, the sun, good food and wine, a slower more laid back lifestyle and things I can afford. Excellent roads, good communications, fast efficient transport services....
That's why I am in France - but I do still like my homeland - just do not want to live there any more
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The natives are very friendly, charming and helpful, the women elegent and or beautiful and most items in the local chandlerys are less than the UK! the food is wonderful and the cost of housing even in this expensive town is a fraction of the UK equivent. I love the sea, the sun, good food and wine, a slower more laid back lifestyle and things I can afford. Excellent roads, good communications, fast efficient transport services....
That's why I am in France - but I do still like my homeland - just do not want to live there any more
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kds
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Trouville,
Seems a shame to be so bitter and you so young. You have a serious case of "the Politics" - we don't have much of it round here.
Call me when you are next around and I will take you to half a dozen pubs within ten miles which serve local real ale (or Somerset cider) and make you welcome. I shall let you pay as I know you would wish to contribute to our economic revival.
I shall be easy to recognise as I shall be the white one !
Do try and stay cool - life really isn't that serious.
Ken
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Seems a shame to be so bitter and you so young. You have a serious case of "the Politics" - we don't have much of it round here.
Call me when you are next around and I will take you to half a dozen pubs within ten miles which serve local real ale (or Somerset cider) and make you welcome. I shall let you pay as I know you would wish to contribute to our economic revival.
I shall be easy to recognise as I shall be the white one !
Do try and stay cool - life really isn't that serious.
Ken
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trouville
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Its not that but i just see that as in the USA theirs no one really able to govern standing for election. Voters are left to choose the least bad,as for our "leader" he wants to rack vengence on areas of society HE dosent agree with. Just imagin your in charge with reall power and hate your neibour-----There still are pockets of whats left of Britain left but reducing and no one wants to see whats happening,
Britains like a wonderful wooden yacht with worm-and no one who wants see how bad it is---In fact some Germans who had bought such a boat came back from Greece and dident want to pay for comingout --owners commitee--- It sank i saw it going down and told the capitanerie who got the pumps in, but there was quite some loss as St Tropez dosent have a big crane and the "heavy" crane had to be orderd that cost more than if they had arranged everything and not saved in the wrong way--gordon brown like
I wish you a pleasent life and continued good bier! Now i will pour my self a small glass of good French wine from the Aude(wine from the var a bit sour and St Tropez is one of the worst!!!but tourist buy it. I just get the lables)
I also miss Sunday lunch but no to much as its bad for you!!! But very good to eat
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Britains like a wonderful wooden yacht with worm-and no one who wants see how bad it is---In fact some Germans who had bought such a boat came back from Greece and dident want to pay for comingout --owners commitee--- It sank i saw it going down and told the capitanerie who got the pumps in, but there was quite some loss as St Tropez dosent have a big crane and the "heavy" crane had to be orderd that cost more than if they had arranged everything and not saved in the wrong way--gordon brown like
I wish you a pleasent life and continued good bier! Now i will pour my self a small glass of good French wine from the Aude(wine from the var a bit sour and St Tropez is one of the worst!!!but tourist buy it. I just get the lables)
I also miss Sunday lunch but no to much as its bad for you!!! But very good to eat
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mikewilkes
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Re: It\'s up to you to choose..NB
Read with interest the replies. Missed the start because I have been away from the machine for the last four days travelling.
Here's my twenty cents worth:
You have to try some things to see if you like them.
Make up your own mind with your own experiences.
You can try, and still return if you wish, provided you dont throw away the key to the padlock on the UK gate.
Some of us do not wish to come back there to live, some of the ones who leave cant wait to get back.
You live in a country that gives you freedom of choice so try it.
Dont knock it until you do.
Go for it girl rather than think for the rest of your life " I wonder if...."
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Now back home with my mistress and SWMBO of course !!!
Read with interest the replies. Missed the start because I have been away from the machine for the last four days travelling.
Here's my twenty cents worth:
You have to try some things to see if you like them.
Make up your own mind with your own experiences.
You can try, and still return if you wish, provided you dont throw away the key to the padlock on the UK gate.
Some of us do not wish to come back there to live, some of the ones who leave cant wait to get back.
You live in a country that gives you freedom of choice so try it.
Dont knock it until you do.
Go for it girl rather than think for the rest of your life " I wonder if...."
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Now back home with my mistress and SWMBO of course !!!
kds
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Gee - I know I am getting on a bit; but I hadn't planned on a "bier" just yet !
Ken
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trouville
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is that not how you spell beir bier?? looks ok? any way i meen that (in the UK) eXpensive brown stuff in a glass. i heard it cost 10 shillings a pint now??Thats Gordon blair for you!! tax tax and more tax to help the poor in Africa---i dont have enough money either??
I would like to retern but at£124 Calias dover cant afford it, and last time i had my boat up in honflure and left direction England after two hours sailing everything went in reverse and i ended up back up the river to Honflure and having to continue up river untill i ran aground and fog decended, I could hear the people in the Pub but the for was so bad it would have been silly to try to go there.
I wonder why the port closed its doors??
Very odd sailing up there twice a day i could antifoul but is this a new secret way of preventing people getting back to the UK without taking the ferrie? to take all the water away? wonder where it goes???
Or is that why so many have arrived in the med?? In fact the last time i was in the UK i left Ipswich for southend and ended up in Jersey !! And ive never found out how to get back--ummm very strange
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I would like to retern but at£124 Calias dover cant afford it, and last time i had my boat up in honflure and left direction England after two hours sailing everything went in reverse and i ended up back up the river to Honflure and having to continue up river untill i ran aground and fog decended, I could hear the people in the Pub but the for was so bad it would have been silly to try to go there.
I wonder why the port closed its doors??
Very odd sailing up there twice a day i could antifoul but is this a new secret way of preventing people getting back to the UK without taking the ferrie? to take all the water away? wonder where it goes???
Or is that why so many have arrived in the med?? In fact the last time i was in the UK i left Ipswich for southend and ended up in Jersey !! And ive never found out how to get back--ummm very strange
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trouville
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Hope this works now i keep getting a error message(like trying to get into the UK)
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Because of Georgia's chronic energy crisis, blackouts continue to darken Tbilisi with some regularity, particularly in the winter. Be prepared for airport delays if a prolonged outage occurs. Though blackouts have, in the past, disabled the airport's guidance beacon, no serious accidents have occurred here. Two local carriers - Georgian Airlines and Air Georgia - have hubs at Tbilisi, from which they serve various regional destinations. Larger airlines serving the airport include British Airways, Swiss Air and Turkish Airlines; Aeroflot provides service to Tbilisi from destinations throughout the former Soviet Bloc.
The highway that connects Georgia and Russia along the Abkhazian coast via the Caucasian Range tunnel is closed. Other road entry points include the route via the Georgian Military Highway, which runs through the Dariali gorge and through to Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan in the south. Travellers report that bribes are often expected at border crossings. One suggestion is to travel with a couple of travellers cheques, claiming they are the only money you have; they're useless to the guards.
Three large ports (Batumi, Poti, Sukhumi) are located on the Black Sea coast of Georgia. Batumi and Poti are the points of departure for cargo ships leaving occasionally for Odessa, Sochi, Trabzon and Istanbul. While the days of thumbing a ride on a cargo vessel are largely over, you might get lucky if you have something to give in return. If you're hoping to arrive by ship,the trans-shipment points for Georgia-bound craft are Genoa and Piraeus. Have a back-up plan.
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There are domestic flights available between Tbilisi's Central Airport and Kutaisi, Butami and Senaki. If you're near the mountains, you might find helicopters used, but they're as expensive as you would imagine.
Aside from Tbilisi, roads generally are in poor condition and lack shoulder markings and center lines. Driving at night can be especially dangerous, and there have
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Georgia
Getting There & Away
Because of Georgia's chronic energy crisis, blackouts continue to darken Tbilisi with some regularity, particularly in the winter. Be prepared for airport delays if a prolonged outage occurs. Though blackouts have, in the past, disabled the airport's guidance beacon, no serious accidents have occurred here. Two local carriers - Georgian Airlines and Air Georgia - have hubs at Tbilisi, from which they serve various regional destinations. Larger airlines serving the airport include British Airways, Swiss Air and Turkish Airlines; Aeroflot provides service to Tbilisi from destinations throughout the former Soviet Bloc.
The highway that connects Georgia and Russia along the Abkhazian coast via the Caucasian Range tunnel is closed. Other road entry points include the route via the Georgian Military Highway, which runs through the Dariali gorge and through to Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan in the south. Travellers report that bribes are often expected at border crossings. One suggestion is to travel with a couple of travellers cheques, claiming they are the only money you have; they're useless to the guards.
Three large ports (Batumi, Poti, Sukhumi) are located on the Black Sea coast of Georgia. Batumi and Poti are the points of departure for cargo ships leaving occasionally for Odessa, Sochi, Trabzon and Istanbul. While the days of thumbing a ride on a cargo vessel are largely over, you might get lucky if you have something to give in return. If you're hoping to arrive by ship,the trans-shipment points for Georgia-bound craft are Genoa and Piraeus. Have a back-up plan.
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Getting Around
There are domestic flights available between Tbilisi's Central Airport and Kutaisi, Butami and Senaki. If you're near the mountains, you might find helicopters used, but they're as expensive as you would imagine.
Aside from Tbilisi, roads generally are in poor condition and lack shoulder markings and center lines. Driving at night can be especially dangerous, and there have
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trouville
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I think somthing went wrong with my postè!!!!
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