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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 22 July 2007 - Volume 03</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_roger.thijs@euro-support.be" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc." <<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be">
roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Travel"</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Since yesterday Saturday (being a Belgian national
holiday) risked to be a lost day, so, as many other Belgians I left the country
for a day trip. Friday evening (or night) I tried to get a cheap last minute
rail ticket for London.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">On the Eurostar website they listed out rates starting at
67.50 euro (<strong>135 return ticket</strong>) but when switching to the
purchase pages they could offer nothing under 258 (or <strong>516 euro
return</strong>). I had given up and replanned for northern France, when I
croschecked on the Belgian Railways web pages and could still get a return
ticket for 135 euro there. The basic difference is that you have to pay for your
sandwiches if you absolutely want to eat during the 150 mins trip.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">The train arrives momentarily in Waterloo station (will
be St Pancras shortly), and upon arrival everybody spurts to the tube
ticketing windows and machines, where you see queues of up to 50 people,
most of them not really knowing what to do. A must for all frequent visitors is
to invest 3 pound in an Oyster card (a prepaid purse card) and recharge it at a
quiet moment somewhere downtown (or pre-arrange things over the internet). (<a href="http://www.tfl.gov.uk/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.tfl.gov.uk/</a>)</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">I actually went to Londen for book-shopping. I attended a
seminar on 3G wireless communication in Oxford a couple of weeks ago (<a href="http://www.euro-support.be/oxum.pdf" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.euro-support.be/oxum.pdf
</a>).
It is difficult to buy technical books over the internet, since you really have
to check the content and the level before buying. </font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">When I was younger I toured around in the Russell square
area for this kind of tasks, since there were quite some interesting
university bookstores at the time.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Now I have a fixed pattern (I gues with aging one looses
flexibility and creativity):</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- First the tube to Picadilly Circus for the 7 level (from -1
to +5) <strong>Waterstones</strong> book store (203-206 Piccadilly) (One of the
floors was overcrowded with kids, since some Potter actors in silly clothes were
signing books.) (<a href="http://www.waterstones.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.waterstones.com/</a>)</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- Next the tube to Oxford Circus and a walk trough East Oxford
Street and Charing Cross road. This gives two <strong>Borders</strong> stores
one in each of these streets, an other <strong>Waterstones</strong> in Oxford
Street, and a bookshop where I always find interesting stuff:
<strong>Blackwell's</strong> on Charing Cross road (<a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp
</a>).
Not forgetting the many second hand book shops in the Charing Cross Road area,
where one always find hard to find books on local history or regional
culture.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">When doing a day trip to Londen, calculate always some spare
lost hours for heavy rain. One can use these for taking some food. Be prepared
that the Mac's become overstuffed with wet bodies during rainy time. You cannot
move there, don't speak about eating. So plan your places: the 5th floor
restaurant in the Waterstones bookshop at Piccadilly is too far for rain
fugitives. So is the M&S restaurant in Oxford street, since one has to
choose between waiting 10 mins for the elevator or zigzagging to the staires at
the end of the ground floor, and zigzagging back to the restaurant on the 1st
floor. The reward: a quit seat, eatable food for a normal price (They serve even
Belgian Duvel beer in the Waterstones restaurant).</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Other than buying technical srtuff, I could not resist to buy
some books about languages:</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- Marton J. Ball, <strong>The Celtic Languages,</strong>
Routledge, London, ISBN 0-415-26060-X (GBP 29.99 at Blackwells), 682 <a href="http://pp.is/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">pp.is</a>
a reprint of a book first printed in 1993. I guess it is old stuff and what it
tells about e.g. revival efforts for Cornish and Manx may be outdated. <em>Has
anybody knowledge of a more updated comparative overview (space and time) of the
Celtic language body??</em></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Also at Blackwell's I also bought this curious
combination:</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- Charlsie Childs: <strong>Improve your American English
Accent</strong> (3 CDs with a little 45 pp. booklet, in a DVD case), Mc Graw
Hill, ISBN 0-07-142809-7 (GBP 13.99)</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">and</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- Linda James & Olga Smith, <strong>Get Rid of your
Accent</strong>, London, Business & TechnicalCommunication Services, Ltd,
ISBN 0-9553300-0-9, 142 pps with 3 CDs at the back in a pocket. (GBP
19.95)</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">To my feeling the first is a bit theatrically overdone
US-English, the second gives boaring RP-English. I guess the later is
helpfull for giving foreigners a standard, but not helpfull for
getting acquainted with and understanding the street varieties on the Brittish
Isles.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">On the way back I was surrounded by kids from a school from
the London area. I guess they were all around 12. The group was quite
homogenous: they were all black. I don't know for how much the school systems in
the UK are factually segregated. Anyhow these kids started with a couple of
bags of chips (crisps) each, till one of them found out that in coach 6 there
are more chips for sale. So I guess they finally got enough energy for the
football game they planned somewhere in Belgium. (I don't know where they
store all these chips in the train - "chips" really is big
business!!)</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">In the morning trip one gains an hour due to the time
difference, and in the evening one pays the price and arrives at home in the
middle of the night.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Regards,</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Roger<br><br>----------<br><br></font>From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
sassisch@yahoo.com
</a>><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span><br>Subject: Travels<br><br>Hi, Roger!<br><br>I take it this was supposed to be a posting. However, minus the book details it has the makings of an article (in this case a report about a specific trip) for our "Travels" site (
<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/">lowlands-l.net/travels/</a>) in that it might motivate other "Continentals." Please think about it and let me know.<br><br>Thanks for sharing your information, as always.
<br><br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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