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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"><a href="mailto:clarkedavid8@aol.com">clarkedavid8@aol.com</a></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Holidays" 2009.05.04 (06) [EN-ES<br><br></span><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid blue; padding-left: 3px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
My
suggestion: spend your vacations in Mexico this year! It's a lovely
country with lovely people, and what you read and hear is overblown.<br>
<br>
Saludos cordiales,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Someone once told me that you are less likely to get hassled in Latin
America than in muslim countries, but more likely to get your throat
cut (although admittedly that was before 9/11).</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
David Clarke</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Holidays</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Well, David, luckily </span><b style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">we</b><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> here at LL-L do <b>not </b>think in such a stereotyping, denigrating manner.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Seattle, USA</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Holidays" 2009.05.04 (06) [EN-ES]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Unfortunately our Foreign Office has issued advice against all but
"essential" travel to Mexico, which means any travel insurance we have
would be void. They'll probably lift it soon as they don't like to
interfere with travel more than they have to.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Paul<br><br>----------<br><br><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From: </span><span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Mike Morgan</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:mwmosaka@gmail.com">mwmosaka@gmail.com</a>></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
Subject: </span><span class="gI">LL-L "Holidays" 2009.05.04 (06) [EN-ES]<br><br></span>Sr. R/R ha escribido:<div class="im"><br>On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Lowlands-L List <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com" target="_blank">lowlands.list@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
<div style="text-align: center;">My
suggestion: spend your vacations in Mexico this year! It's a lovely
country with lovely people, and what you read and hear is overblown.</div>
</blockquote>
<div> </div></div>
</div><div>I second that suggestion ... though i MAY not make it this
year! (MAY be heading for the Horn of Africa instead... fingers crossed
and re-crossed ... and hoping NOT to be double-crossed!)</div>
<div> </div>
<div>We all have our favorites ... mine happens to be the Yucatan (centering around Merida NOT Cancun!) ...</div>
<div> </div>
And, ONE of the extra pluses is still being able to rent a
(beat-up) old VW bug JUST LIKE the one you learned to drive on (in my
case, my elder brother's) all those years ago ... ahhh, nostalgia!<br><br>mike || U C > || мика || माईक || マイク ሚካኤል<br>
(( Michael W Morgan, PhD ))<br>linguist STILL temporarily at large in Bom Bahia<br>+++++++++++++++++<br>በቅሎ ግዙ ግዙ አንድ አሞሌ ጨው ላያግዙ</div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><br></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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