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| Rioting Threatens France's Tourism Image | |
| 2005-11-08 | |
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #15 There's also a shuttle bus from the Mall to the Air & Space Annex at Dulles, Regnad and Besoeker. Frankly, I think the SR-71 Blackbird is more impressive than the Enola Gay. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2005-11-08 21:34 |
| #14 Poland and the Czech Republic (Amadeus was filmed in the Prague city center). The Hungarians have the odd idea that they can charge Paris prices for things... or at least they used to. Austria is lovely, although their German was impossible for me to understand in the villages, and it is only 50 km from Vienna to the Czech border towns. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-11-08 17:10 |
| #13 If it's a European vacation you're looking for, try Poland or the Czech Republic. Or Austria and Hungary. Switzerland doesn't have a riot problem, either. Of course, every able-bodied Swiss man has a rifle.... :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-11-08 14:07 |
| #12 Ditto Regnad. The only cost at Dulles is for parking, $ 12. The Enola Gay's engines have just undergone a 1000 hour overhaul, and she's got news tires as well! Just an update bit for the Iranicals. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2005-11-08 11:30 |
| #11 Chamonix doesnt get good snow until Spring. |
| Posted by: bk 2005-11-08 11:22 |
| #10 I reccomend the San Juan islands and North Cascade National Park. |
| Posted by: bk 2005-11-08 11:22 |
| #9 The Smithsonian - Air and Space Museum. Ignore the revisionist stuff they might have lying about. This place can keep most historically aware folks occupied at least a week. Awesome place. |
| Posted by: Regnad Kcin 2005-11-08 10:57 |
| #8 Or the Rockies, or the Grand Canyon, or Washington DC or ..... |
| Posted by: lotp 2005-11-08 10:30 |
| #7 Paris. Pfaugh. The Parisians even spit on other Frenchmen. Easily the most obnoxious folks in Europe, and that's no easy trick. Stay in the south, or go to Italy, or the Spanish Riviera... |
| Posted by: mojo 2005-11-08 10:15 |
| #6 I remember traveling on the TGV on my last trip to Paris, sitting in first class, when an immigrant teen came through the cabin demanding -- asking is simply not the right word -- money. It was stunning to watch as everyone opened their wallets. |
| Posted by: Curt Simon 2005-11-08 09:25 |
| #5 Tourism receipts of $37 billion in 2003 are nothing to sneeze at. It is may be France's first or second largest earner of foreign currency. Also interesting is that in 2003 Spain surpassed France as the largest foreign tourism expenditure country in the world. With its wine industry hitting the skids, France can ill afford to have tourism crash. And it couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of schmucks (A5089 and JFM excepted). |
| Posted by: Speremble Chelet2496 2005-11-08 08:47 |
| #4 But the burkas in this fall's collections are incroyable! |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2005-11-08 08:22 |
| #3 Let them eat cake - as long as it is halal. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2005-11-08 08:09 |
| #2 But,Honey the"City of Lights"is so much more romantic now that they sre using the light from burning cars.Don't worry about lung damage from the toxic smoke it will pass when we get back to Los Angles. |
| Posted by: raptor 2005-11-08 07:47 |
| #1 LOL, Fred! Who cares about the French tourism, lol? |
| Posted by: .com 2005-11-08 01:58 |