Posted on 01/20/2014 9:45:41 PM PST by robowombat
I’ve read about India and seen it on tv for practically all my life, but as P.J. O’Rourke observed, everything is different when you smell it.
Sometimes I wish I could afford to go places, but I think I’d be disappointed, compared to seeing them in magazines and videos.
” but I think I’d be disappointed,
And sometimes you’d be enchanted as I was with Copenhagen.
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I liked Amsterdam, but I’d never given it any thought until my mother decided that was where we were going. She liked Scandinavia, too.
I have read comments like this written by British civil service and military types 150 years ago saying the same thing albeit in a bowdlerized manner. The excrement flakes from centuries blown about by the winds during the incredible heat of the ‘dry season’ was a major reason to move women and children to various hill stations until the heat broke and the rains came.
Good points.
“I’ve read about India and seen it on tv for practically all my life, but as P.J. O’Rourke observed, everything is different when you smell it.”
We have enough honest Indians here in NJ that would warn you off from going to India.
“Sometimes I wish I could afford to go places, but I think I’d be disappointed, compared to seeing them in magazines and videos.”
I know what you mean; a co-worker went on an Alaska cruise, and when he returned he said it never measured up to what he imagined it would be...
My mother and her friends did an Alaska cruise. She said it was okay, but she’d seen plenty of killer whales at Sea World, and scenery is just scenery. The Upper and Lower Danube (separate trips) was her favorite cruise.
The differences between Pakistanis and Indians...
http://defence.pk/threads/difference-between-pakistanis-and-indians.26030/
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