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Andy44 said:
That sounds like the kind of thing that could only happen in Silicon Valley. Except that it's LA, which is a few hours south, so I guess it could also happen in a Hollywood movie...about Silicon Valley.
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Or in any other place, where middle management is just a title, not a job description.


I maybe do PLM right now, but even I can't imagine any customer wanting the system to be more powerful than he is.
 
Spotify is so terrible at targeted advertisement, I think they're doing it on purpose to annoy you into subscribing :lol:
 
More cruise news.
What ho George,

Temperature has dropped considerably here, only 18 deg C and cloudy today. Back in Hungary now, a place called Mohacs, we went for a stroll around town this morning. The ship took on stores, they really work ALL the crew. Even the Captain and the piano player were humping boxes, made me feel tired just watching them.

We have another 5 or 6 stops before we finish in Vienna, Bratislava is in 3 days, looking forward to that one.

I was surprised to find that they do not need to top up the fuel, apparently they filled up in Vienna before we joined, and that is more than enough for the whole journey.

Sorry to disappoint, didn't bring my wet suit so no water skiing.

Time for lunch, it's all go.

Toodle pip
Les
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If anyone finds this tediuos, let me know and I'll stop, probably...

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Well... it ain't a second Mosella, but its interesting for reading up about the Danube outside Germany. Didn't know about the Iron Gate Valley, pretty interesting landscape.
 
Les did get a Nobel Prize for Literature for his "Letter from Scunthorpe" series.
That's what he tells me anyway.


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I think they have a tight itinerary. No chance of a diversion to...that place.

His good lady is from Czechoslovakia(as was) and he regularly used to drive there from the UK. Exciting times in the 80's at the various borders. Sometimes took days to get through.

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Notebook said:
His good lady is from Czechoslovakia(as was) and he regularly used to drive their from the UK. Exciting times in the 80's at the various borders. Sometimes took days to get through.
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You tell me. I had relatives in the GDR, just 20 km away from our home. Had to drive 20 minutes to the border crossing Marienborn, spend 2-6 hours at the border, and then drive 20 minutes away from the border over a SUV suspension test track. Had really nightmares a child about the border checkpoint, it was a really dystopian place. Still can feel it when driving past the memorial

Today its just 20 minutes and the roads on their side of the former border are still better than on ours...
 
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Its a while since they drove to Prague, usually coach or plane now. I'll ask what route he took.
Do remember he said there were long lines of mostly lorries at the crossings, not many cars. That would have been in the 70's. Changed a lot of course as time went on.

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Urwumpe said:
You tell me. I had relatives in the GDR, just 20 km away from our home. Had to drive 20 minutes to the border crossing Marienborn, spend 2-6 hours at the border, and then drive 20 minutes away from the border over a SUV suspension test track. Had really nightmares a child about the border checkpoint, it was a really dystopian place. Still can feel it when driving past the memorial

Today its just 20 minutes and the roads on their side of the former border are still better than on ours...
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During the year I spent in Cottbus, I made a day trip to Berlin at one point to see the Brandenburger Tor. I was quite surprised to discover the US embassy sitting right on the east side of the gate.
 
I knew about Bleeping, I didn't know that it was so close to Braunau. That part of Austria can't seem to get a break.
 
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More cruise news.

If anyone finds this tediuos, let me know and I'll stop, probably...

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Don't get me going about Hungary. I'm not chauvinistic, I have many Hungarian friends, but maaan, their services are crap. There are rest stops on the M5, with hotels
which don't accept credit cards and the only cash they accept is in Forints...Made a reservation at another hotel, off the highway, but , although the reservation was valid, the hotel was closed. It was a "very" fun night, that one
 
I suppose a river cruise is a good way to get a view of a country. Guaranteed accommodation, unless you miss the boat!
Haven't been to any of these countries. When I got the chance to travel it was the Far-East that fascinated me. Suppose it was the old Empire connections and it was as far away from the UK as I could get.
Would like to visit Europe, last time was about 50 years ago on a school trip.

Unfortunately Europe is off-limits till we get the Brexit thing fixed...

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Notebook said:
Unfortunately Europe is off-limits till we get the Brexit thing fixed...

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Better come over as long as you can. :lol: Don't worry, despite the bad reputation of British tourists I am sure, you can still come over the channel even after the Brexit. You might have to swim maybe.
 
Sadly travel is not possible for me at the moment. Hopefully sometime. Would like to see all the Balkans/ Black Sea countries. We had very little news from there when the previous owner was in charge.
I think Les and Ruzenha are making up for it. Usually get a few dozen transparencies to look through when they come back...

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