A week in the UK
12 October 2008, 03:30 PM
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A week in the UK
Weather = Mostly bad (can't expect much at the time of year).
Service = Mostly bad (some excellent but most below par).
Food = Pretty good.
Booze = Expensive.
Hotels = Expensive for what you get (but good enough).
Smiles on the locals = Non existent.
British Airways (Club World), I'm surprised to say = Excellent
Terminal 5 = Very good and got my bag on the flight (avoided a hat-trick of failure for BA)
Cheer up FFS, smile a bit, it's not all bad
At least the food and BA are OK!
Discuss/comments
UK =
Service = Mostly bad (some excellent but most below par).
Food = Pretty good.
Booze = Expensive.
Hotels = Expensive for what you get (but good enough).
Smiles on the locals = Non existent.
British Airways (Club World), I'm surprised to say = Excellent
Terminal 5 = Very good and got my bag on the flight (avoided a hat-trick of failure for BA)
Cheer up FFS, smile a bit, it's not all bad
At least the food and BA are OK!Discuss/comments
UK =
12 October 2008, 03:46 PM
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Are you prepared to smile 
What's going on with the heating in the UK? It was Baltic and still no heating in supermarkets etc
No Money or what?
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12 October 2008, 04:00 PM
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As for the supermarkets..........they can't keep up........if it's a miserable day, the heating is still off from the previous day when it was sunny. Then they turn on the air con full blast..........next day it's cooler so we all freeze!
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Weather = Mostly bad (can't expect much at the time of year).
Service = Mostly bad (some excellent but most below par).
Food = Pretty good.
Booze = Expensive.
Hotels = Expensive for what you get (but good enough).
Smiles on the locals = Non existent.
British Airways (Club World), I'm surprised to say = Excellent
Terminal 5 = Very good and got my bag on the flight (avoided a hat-trick of failure for BA)
Cheer up FFS, smile a bit, it's not all bad At least the food and BA are OK!
Discuss/comments
UK =
Service = Mostly bad (some excellent but most below par).
Food = Pretty good.
Booze = Expensive.
Hotels = Expensive for what you get (but good enough).
Smiles on the locals = Non existent.
British Airways (Club World), I'm surprised to say = Excellent
Terminal 5 = Very good and got my bag on the flight (avoided a hat-trick of failure for BA)
Cheer up FFS, smile a bit, it's not all bad
At least the food and BA are OK!Discuss/comments
UK =
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I thought Terminal 5 was brilliant when I came through there last month. Best baggage service I have ever had. By the time I got off the plane and into the baggage reclaim my bag was ready. Trains to Central London were excellent. Dunno about you coolangatta but I stayed in a 5-star hotel in Central London and it was very nice indeed...then had a Pizza Hut lunch as some things you just miss when you are an ex-pat and PH pizzas are one of them (believe it or not!).
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I thought Terminal 5 was brilliant when I came through there last month. Best baggage service I have ever had. By the time I got off the plane and into the baggage reclaim my bag was ready. Trains to Central London were excellent. Dunno about you coolangatta but I stayed in a 5-star hotel in Central London and it was very nice indeed...then had a Pizza Hut lunch as some things you just miss when you are an ex-pat and PH pizzas are one of them (believe it or not!).
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Weather = Mostly bad (can't expect much at the time of year).
Service = Mostly bad (some excellent but most below par).
Food = Pretty good.
Booze = Expensive.
Hotels = Expensive for what you get (but good enough).
Smiles on the locals = Non existent.
British Airways (Club World), I'm surprised to say = Excellent
Terminal 5 = Very good and got my bag on the flight (avoided a hat-trick of failure for BA)
Cheer up FFS, smile a bit, it's not all bad At least the food and BA are OK!
Discuss/comments
UK =
Service = Mostly bad (some excellent but most below par).
Food = Pretty good.
Booze = Expensive.
Hotels = Expensive for what you get (but good enough).
Smiles on the locals = Non existent.
British Airways (Club World), I'm surprised to say = Excellent
Terminal 5 = Very good and got my bag on the flight (avoided a hat-trick of failure for BA)
Cheer up FFS, smile a bit, it's not all bad
At least the food and BA are OK!Discuss/comments
UK =
Get plenty of smiles and friendly conversations from locals and tourists in this type of environment We have some of the best food / chefs / restaurants in the world (though the French may argue to the contrary). I think it's great, such a diversity of choice from a simple pie and chips down the pub to a full gastronomic experience, it's all good.
Booze might be expensive but we've got some of the best beer in the world. Talking about real ale here not that gassy, chemically enhanced, cr*p that passes for lager in this country. Only Belgium comes close in the beer stakes.
So pretty much sums up for me why I love it here so much, going for a long walk in our amazing countryside in some occasionally challenging weather, returning to a nice warm pub with a blazing log fire for a hearty feast washed down with a few pints of the finest ale money can buy. Perhaps I'm not normal
Haven't found anywhere else in the world that compares yet and I've done a fair bit of travelling.
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So pretty much sums up for me why I love it here so much, going for a long walk in our amazing countryside in some occasionally challenging weather, returning to a nice warm pub with a blazing log fire for a hearty feast washed down with a few pints of the finest ale money can buy. Perhaps I'm not normal
13 October 2008, 02:13 PM
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The weather is part and parcel of living here. If you don't like it then tough. Tramping up a Welsh mountain side in the pissing rain is character building Get plenty of smiles and friendly conversations from locals and tourists in this type of environment
We have some of the best food / chefs / restaurants in the world (though the French may argue to the contrary). I think it's great, such a diversity of choice from a simple pie and chips down the pub to a full gastronomic experience, it's all good.
Booze might be expensive but we've got some of the best beer in the world. Talking about real ale here not that gassy, chemically enhanced, cr*p that passes for lager in this country. Only Belgium comes close in the beer stakes.
So pretty much sums up for me why I love it here so much, going for a long walk in our amazing countryside in some occasionally challenging weather, returning to a nice warm pub with a blazing log fire for a hearty feast washed down with a few pints of the finest ale money can buy. Perhaps I'm not normal
Haven't found anywhere else in the world that compares yet and I've done a fair bit of travelling.
Get plenty of smiles and friendly conversations from locals and tourists in this type of environment We have some of the best food / chefs / restaurants in the world (though the French may argue to the contrary). I think it's great, such a diversity of choice from a simple pie and chips down the pub to a full gastronomic experience, it's all good.
Booze might be expensive but we've got some of the best beer in the world. Talking about real ale here not that gassy, chemically enhanced, cr*p that passes for lager in this country. Only Belgium comes close in the beer stakes.
So pretty much sums up for me why I love it here so much, going for a long walk in our amazing countryside in some occasionally challenging weather, returning to a nice warm pub with a blazing log fire for a hearty feast washed down with a few pints of the finest ale money can buy. Perhaps I'm not normal
Haven't found anywhere else in the world that compares yet and I've done a fair bit of travelling.
It is, after all, my homeland.Beer is a + point for sure, however there are many good beers world wide, we (UK) do not have a monopoly.
Weather is pretty dire, too much rain and not much differential between the seasons. I get proper summer and real winter here
Main prob in the UK is the lack of smiles
You'd think there was a financial meltdown or something 
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Main prob in the UK is the lack of smiles You'd think there was a financial meltdown or something
I'll give you a smile for flying BA though - pays my wages
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