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From: Norman Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 9:41 AM
Subject: RE: [ql-users] Are we alive
: >> Ron Dunnett wrote:
: >> Everybody on holiday i think Tony
:
: Well, I was in Paris for 5 days.
: What can I say - it was grey, dull,
My impression of London 15 year ago
: wet, rainy
That is the case for about 18 months now
: and the streets are paved with dog sh*t !
A big problem that our president Chirac never managed to
solve when he was mayor for 20 years. A big number of his
electors are grandmothers with dogs.
: When you eat in a restaurant (which I can never spell !) All you get is
: absolutely engulfed in fag smoke. It appears that Parisiennes (is that
their
: collective name ?) cannot get through a meal without a full pack of 200
: fags. And it it those unfiltered jobbies as well.
French girls smoke too much. About good restaurants, you should
have asked me. There are some of them, either expensive and good, or
better, not too expensive, preserving the old way of living.
:
: Paris in Springtime - don't make me laugh.
: What a dump !
If you choose Easter, then you have big chances to have
cold rainy wheather.
: I'd rather have been working.
:
: Norman.
:
: PS, Get the impression I was serioulsy not impressed ?
: I wasn't.
:
: PPS. Any Paris residents lurking/listening - don't take it personally, but
: Paris is not as 'romantic' as it is made out. Sorry.
You are right. But I feel that this is the case in all the big cities,
and there are interesting places in Paris, in all those big cities.
: PS. Didn't see a single QL in all the time I was there !
I would have shown you mine (bought november 1984)
Arnould
