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Ron Erickson
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Hello mates!

I'm in the UK! I spent the yesterday and most of today in London. I just got to my hotel in Bournemouth. My reservations are made for my room to go to the convention. I'm looking forward to meeting all of you that are coming.

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Hi!

Bournemouth. How exciting

So, how's the Britain treating you? Enjoying watching the BBC? Driving on the left?

Hope you have a nice time.

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Excellent news WOLF. You should look forward to probably being annoyed by me.

Where are you staying.

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Wolf has entered the country. You'll be easy to spot, Wolves became extinct here in the seventeenth century

Hope you have a good trip, see you next weekend at the Con!

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Good timing. See much of the fireworks? Nice how the weather reverted to form just as you got here (cold and really wet).

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Quote: "Nice how the weather reverted to form just as you got here (cold and really wet)."


We had a nice October...but Summer was still cold and really wet!

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Remember, you drive on the LEFT side of the road, and the way you find left is to make your hand into a L shape. Remember that from kendergerden?

Anyway, you have my envy, you lucky, uhm, pup.

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lol

I'm getting on pretty well. London was OK, I did the "Original Bus Tour" which was fun. I got to see a lot of the sights of London in a couple hours.
I don't dare drive yet. I doubt that I will try it while I'm here. No thanks.
...and I'm use to this kind of weather. It is just as "nice" in Pittsburgh lol
I didn't see much of the fireworks on Friday night. I was recovering from jet lag.
I had my first British beer yesterday. It was very good. I didn't think that I would be able to stomach warm beer, but I quite liked it. It was at some OLD pub/resteraunt that was older than my country. You had to duck while standing, else you would have a sore head.

Today, I'm heading up to Birmingham (I think), then down to South Wales tomorow. I should be back in Bournemouth tomorow night. I doubt that I'll have internet until tomorow night. I'll post again then

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Posted: 7th Nov 2005 09:15 Edited at: 7th Nov 2005 09:15
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Quote: "It was at some OLD pub/resteraunt that was older than my country."

Quite a few things in England are, thanks to the Romans, and the Britons before them...

Must also give thanks to the Vikings too...

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Quote: "I'm heading up to Birmingham (I think)"


Excelent, that is the best part of England, you will love the industrial feel of this place

I have one of the few jobs out of the chain making factories, working with computers instead


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WHY are you not visiting the best part of the country (Manchester)

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Quote: "Today, I'm heading up to Birmingham (I think), then down to South Wales tomorow"


South Wales is up Wales is that bit that hangs off the left of the country and is full of sheep and grass.

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Quote: "WHY are you not visiting the best part of the country (Manchester)"

*Cough*

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Quote: "I don't dare drive yet. I doubt that I will try it while I'm here. No thanks."


Just wondering - is this a common sentiment? I've heard it before from foreigners (Swiss, I think) saying they don't dare drive on the other side. I know when we go abroad we always do, there isn't that much different? (just everything reversed)

By the way - this is the plane geek coming out in me. Who did you fly with? LGW or LHR? (or even STN )

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yay your coming to brum - you must go to the bull ring, and, like the majority of tourists i've seen, sit on the bull


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http://www2.b3ta.com/birmingham/

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Haha. That reminds me of when I went to England in 2002 with my parents, and my dad jumped at the opportunity to drive on the wrong (right?) side of the road. Almost every time we walked out from our rented home to the car, my mom would go to the right side and dad to the left--- then they'd have a laugh and switch sides. They seriously did this almost every time, and we were there for a week

There was also this frightfully funny time where we were driving and this car coming at us kept flashing their lights at us. We were wondering what his problem was until we realized we were driving on the right side of the road straight at him!

I think it's normal for us to be freaked out about driving in England, especially all the roundabouts you blokes have. The huge ones are freaky because not all of us know the roundabout rules! I heard there are only a handful of roundabouts in our entire country, and you guys have them at almost every intersection, or so it would seem.

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It's quite easy - just get on and go around until you spot your exit. Then get off. (of course, by that time you'll have gone around several times )

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Ugh, England is crappy.

Its boring and nothing ever happens... except it has me in it .

oh and... OMG im back everyone !11 one one twelve eleven


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Posted: 7th Nov 2005 20:40 Edited at: 7th Nov 2005 20:41
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Quote: "I had my first British beer yesterday. It was very good. I didn't think that I would be able to stomach warm beer, but I quite liked it. It was at some OLD pub/resteraunt that was older than my country. You had to duck while standing, else you would have a sore head."


Ahhh yes! You need to try and get into proper English Ales! We brew some of the most interesting and tasteful beers in the world yet everyone seems to be satisfied with these identical European lagers. Most people don't get Ale the first time around but it's something that grows on you, and what's best is there are hundreds of small breweries up and down the country each producing very different and interesting beers . People don't realise there's more than just lager and bitter, try everything, IPA, Stout, Mild, Pale Ales, Dark ales, EVERYTHING! "Black Sheep" and "Theakston's Owd Parculiar" are a couple of favourites and good beers to drink for first timers.

Wow! I've gotten a bit carried away there, sorry about that!



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Bournemouth. How exciting

So, how's the Britain treating you? Enjoying watching the BBC? Driving on the left?

Hope you have a nice time."


LMAO! But you're true!



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Quote: "South Wales is up "


[Smug]But it is down from Birmingham which is where he will be first[/Smug]


Great Britain would be Amazing Britain if it wasn't for idiots like you bringing down the average!
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I wanted to post that myself, but I didnt want to be smug

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[SMART]But up from Bournemouth...depends how you read it[/ASSES]



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Quote: "Must also give thanks to the Vikings too..."



You're always welcome.


Anyways, enjoy the stay in England. I've never been to England before(except a two hour stay in Heathrow ).

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Quote: "able to stomach warm beer"
Where the hell did you go? Ah. De olde countryside. Sod that for a laugh... Went in a pub the other day from like 1600 or so. Warm beer tastic, and everyone must have been hobbits at the time as you kept hitting your head on sodding low wood beams...

Quote: "not all of us know the roundabout rules"
Don't worry most people don't. Heh, even my dad had to do an emergency stop when I first came down here to live (come from middle of nowhere) on one of those seriously large roundabouts (with lights and everything!), and he was a driving instructor!

Quote: "LGW or LHR?"
LHR all the way. Everything else is a bit provisional in comparison....

Quote: "Wales is that bit that hangs off the left of the country and is full of sheep and grass."
Don't go dissing my lovely.... and south Wales is really England. Don't forget it saes, or I burn your house down....

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Quote: "You're always welcome."

Yes, did quite a bit for ye olde Englande - shame about the pillaging though...

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Ach, I think *we* can forgive a bit of invasion, empire building, and general mass murder/ genocide.

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Yes, I think so too...

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LOL

Thanks for all of the comments. I'm back in Bournemouth again. It's been a busy couple of days work. I didn't see much in Birmingham or South Wales except from the highway. And YES, I meant "down" to South Wales FROM Birmingham. And it isn't so much the driving on the other side of the road that bothers me, it is all of those damn roundabout. I have a good sense of direction, but they really throw me off for some reason. Well, I'm off to dinner. I'll post more later!

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How are you enjoying the delightful British weather ?

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It's not that different from "sunny" old Pittsburgh. lol
Truthfully, the weather is very similar to back home. This is mild, normal stuff

We were supposed to get a lot of rain in South Wales today. Luckily it didn't come before we left. Unluckily, it looks like I may have to go back to South Wales on Friday.

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Quote: "highway"
Heh, apart from a fat old bloke sorta linked to the Pink Panther singing hymns on a sunday (or back when highwaymen said "Stand and Deliver") then that will be the "motorway". Oh, and stuff that motorway, take "the biggest ring road in the world" for a bit of a laugh (M25). Actually you wouldn't have missed it as it surrounds London... unless you went by train. Yuck....

Quote: "This is mild, normal stuff"
This is the best we've had it for like ever apparently. I actually didn't need 10 layers of clothing or medical aid when I went outside at midnight on bonfire night.

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Quote: "I'm in the UK!"

is the food really crap?

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Quote: "Actually you wouldn't have missed it as it surrounds London... unless you went by train. Yuck...."


I went by train from London to Bournemouth

Quote: "is the food really crap?"


No, it is quite good really. Of coarse since I'm the customer on this business trip, I am getting taken to some nice places.
I had my first English "fish and chips" last night. Tonight we went to an excellent Italian reteraunt within walking distance of my hotel.

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Forget everything and go to teh toally roxxxxoorrrzzz York, they say there's 365 pubs there (one for every day of the year), and loads of stuff about the Vikings, it'll rox ur sox. 1337.

Ofcourse if you're too busy (why anyone would ever be too busy to go there is beyond me but...) at least try a full english breakfast, not healthy, but damn tasty.


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I've had a "full english breakfast" every day that I've been here. While it is very good, I'm getting a little bit tired of it. My cholesterol has got to be through the roof.

By the way, I forgot to mention before, I flew into LHR and I fly out of LGW, so I'll get a taste of BOTH

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Quote: "I've had a "full english breakfast" every day that I've been here"
Did you have black pudding with it? If so then you can practically feel your arteries clogging up right there and then. Top stuff.

Oh look the sun is out. But it's bloody freezing (ok slightly off, but still 10 degrees.. brrr...)....

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while you are here ask someone about the TV licence when I was in the US that went down a storm at a party I was at, most people had never heard of such a thing or how it was enforced, caused a lot of hilarity.



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Well, its a joke here too...

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Quote: "By the way, I forgot to mention before, I flew into LHR and I fly out of LGW, so I'll get a taste of BOTH "


Cool. I suppose coming you came with BA, Virgin, United or American.

Going out, well all the other American carriers are at LGW.

Quote: "I had my first English "fish and chips" last night. "


I haven't had that since - well when I was around 5 I suppose

I've had a "full english breakfast" every day that I've been here. While it is very good, I'm getting a little bit tired of it. My cholesterol has got to be through the roof.

How are you finding the bacon? Whenever I have had breakfast in America, the bacon has been some weird stuff that cracks when you apply pressure and had fat dripping off it. Looks like it's been uber over cooked.


Nice to know you're enjoying it. If you really want spectaular scenery, come up here. Lake District, highlands of scotland, real LOTR

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For those people who are interested in "English Food" and aren't sure what it is, there are really two levels to it:

1. The dirt cheap stuff usually involves frying anything you can get your hands on - sausages, bacon, eggs, bread(!), mushrooms, tomatoes, black pudding (or "blood sausage" as the americans call it) - your typical "full english breakfast".

2. Super ultra expensive stuff. You usually take a very high quality cut of meat, served with a side of vegetables - very plain stuff, but the flavour comes from the meat and the way its cooked. I can't think of any examples, because I go out of my way to make sure I don't end up in such a restaurant.

I've not done a good job on #2 there, but if someone can fill in the gaps, be my guest.

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Note that the bread in example 1 is usually fried.

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I flew in with Virgin Atlantic from Newark, New Jersey. I leave with Continental to Newark.

I haven't had the black pudding yet. I have yet to see that.

I found out what I've been drinking: English Ale. I had a bit too much tonight with dinner. It is a bit slow typing right now. lol. burp.

I have tomorow off from work. I plan to do some "christmas shopping" for the family. Bournemouth has a crap load of shops. I got lost walking around tonight. I left about 5:00 pm and walked constantly until about 9:00 pm. Then I went to dinnere. MMM.... good steak in a spicy red wine sauce. AWESOME. Now I'm tired, half kicked and somewhat bored. lol

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Quote: "Now I'm tired, half kicked and somewhat bored. lol"


Turn the TV and watch something! (what channels you got? just the usual BBC1/BBC2/ITV/C4/C5?) Savour the short ad breaks, and lack of lawyer commercials.

Although, there seem to be a spate of debt consolidation ads on these days. Pretty annoying.

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@adr: thats the worst description of British food I have ever read and it`s totaly wrong, theres more to British food than fry ups and Egon Phony wanabees, a REAL ploughmans lunch or a Cornish pasty for eg are awesome, a proper Breakfast is grilled, poached or fried accordingly and includes fresh buttered bread and a good cup of tea, far better than anything I have tasted anywhere else, you realy need to eat out more and go for real food rather than the plastic they sell in supermarkets (why is it the British know nothing about the realy good quality food in the UK)

@Wolf: enjoy your shopping, glad you liked it over here, we plan to convert the rest of the world to driving on the right side of the road shortly, at least you aren`t in Paris getting your hire car torched by some rabble, oh! and take care with English mustard, it`s a LOT stronger than the stuff you get in the US, use sparingly.



if there is one thing I can NOT tolerate, it`s intolerant people.
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Dude, you go to Cambridge?, great place, the part I live in is full of chavs, but closer to the center it gets more decent, but not many people are happy which is why I skip around the city centre giggling when I'm around people Also if you have, you seen this group of religious guys who always preach there, when my brother came out of a Nightwish concert they called him a devil worshipper lol

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I forgot to comment about the bacon question before. I like the bacon over here and the bacon at home. The bacon here is sort of like fried ham. The bacon at home is meant to be greasey, crisp and horrible for you. lol

I really haven't watched much TV. I get like 4 or 5 channels at the hotel. If I turn it on, it is just for noise.

Well, I have to go phone the family. That is the worst part about being here. Not seeing your kids and wife for over a week sucks.
I'm so lonely. lol

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Posted: 9th Nov 2005 23:27 Edited at: 9th Nov 2005 23:29
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Quote: " I get like 4 or 5 channels at the hotel"
Yikes. Backwatertastic. Although come to think of it a hotel I was in the other day in Wimbledon had only something like 8 (minus the dirty ones). Suppose you get used to the hundreds Sky chucks at you after a few years.

Heh, my parents are now living in Cyprus, and just to get the bog standard terrestrial channels (ones listed above) they have got a 3.5 metre dish. Ok, so they could get the full load, but it costs tonnes over there.

Quote: "The bacon here is sort of like fried ham"
Ang on. I like my bacon soft with little grease, but 99% of English (I'm Welsh even if I was born in Cambridge don't you know...) people seem to like crisp as hell bacon. Yuck. Might as well eat wood. Hmmm. That doesn't sound as good as it did in my head... replace wood with chipboard... better now.....

Quote: "I'm so lonely"
Not suprising. Isn't Bournemouth full of 90 year olds this time of year?

Cheers

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