It's just off Ave. de la Grande Armée which I'm sure you know is the continuation of the ´Champs Elysés on the far side of the Arc de Triomphe. It's just about 10 yds. into the side street, the name of which escapes me. I must add that this was 20 years ago though they were always jam-packed any time I went there which was quite a few times, so I'm assuming they're still in business. They opened at 7 pm and people would start queuing from 6pm to get seats. The main course needless to say is a hot roast beef served with a very decent sized plate of pommes allumettes, plus the side salad. Oh and the sauce on the meat is kind of mustardy and scrumptious. It's weird to see the entire restuarant eating the same main course!
venere08: Honestly, I can't possibly be the only other non smoker around here. So, where are they all?
Well there's little old me. As previously posted I puffed my last Marlboro over 20 years ago. Incidentally it was in the Assiete au Boeuf restaurant in Paris. Anybody else ever eaten there? It's a very unusual eatery in that there's only one main course with the same little lettuce and pine nuts on the side, though there's a selection of delicious deserts including Ile Flottante and Peche Melba.
Great to hear you've been to Arran. I've been there a few times, Lamlash, Blackwaterfoot etc. It's less confusing if you look at a map and see that it's a long way round to cover what's really a fairly short distance as the crow flies. That was my point I guess. I remember once talking to my cousin on the phone (she lives near Glasgow) and she remarked that her husband had just left by car for Perth. But he'll be back tonight, she said. I was puzzled because I remember that as a day-long trip one-way which I took by train when I was a teenager. Then I realised that it's just a couple of hours on the motorway. Similarly if there were a tunnel linking N. Ireland with Kintyre Glasgow-Belfast would be a piece of cake. Well it's never gonna happen.
btw I was in Plovdiv the other day. Unfortunately I had major problems with my car and got to know a couple of repair shops. Didn't get to visit your new mall either but went to Praktiker instead!
Didn't know that. Sorry. Can't have any more. Had 2 cans Becks with dindins and big day tomorrow building my bathroom.... Had a long day today burning grass on my land and hosing my fruit trees to stop them catching fire! Effin knackered now and will hit the sack early I think. Awesome weather.
Yeah let's say you're in Machrihanish on the Mull of Kintyre (Machaire Shanais in Gaelic) and look west you can see N. Ireland. To get there you have to go a curious route (I've done this trip but not the N.Ireland part and a nice journey it is too), just to Glasgow. You have to do a fair bit of driving and take 2 ferries, one from Claonaig to Lochranza on the island of Arran and one from Brodick on Arran to the Scottish mainland at Ardrossan. Then you drive down the coast from Ardrossan to Troon, and from there there's a ferry to Larne and from there to Ballycastle (a little over 200 miles though in fact the distance from the nearest part of the Kintyre peninsula to the N. Ireland mainland compares to the Channel tunnel linking France with England!!!). Anyone interested can check this out on map24.com by entering Machrihanish and Ballycastle, then click on Calculate Route!
Very sane post but nothing will change. People buy what they see advertised on TV and billboards, no matter how absurd, no matter what blatant deception is in the advertising. Bottles of "face-lift" products, endorsed by TV personalities and Hollywood stars, guaranteed to be even more effective than previously. "Chocolate" sweets for children and sugary so-called "cereals" advertised at breakfast time. The economic well-being of entire countries now depends largely on consumer spending, people maxing out their credit cards to get stuff they are persuaded they need.
I agree completely and I've personally been hopping mad a coupla times in my life and who knows, if I could have bought a gun at Wal-Mart aka Asda, what might have happened.
I've saved, now let's see, 23 and a half years multiplied by 365 multiplied by 3 quarters of a pack (of 20) a day. No idea what ciggies cost but I'd say a nice car!
So have you noticed any dividends like your mouth stopped tasting like the bottom of a birdcage?
I don't read the tabloid press, never have done, never will. The crap on the front page that I see in shops gives me a good idea of what's inside. What morons read it, I ask myself?
Well I've no idea what he's doing now - hope he's in the land of the living! I deliberately didn't mention the name of the airline in question. Hint: they recently pranged one in the land of the tulip and the wooden clog.
It's true that it's one more regulation and that takes away another freedom, like helmets for motorcyclists and seat belts in cars, etc., especially since not wearing either of those items does no harm to others. But cigarette smoking is such a disgusting habit to non-smokers, particularly since these have their sensory organs unimpaired. Therefore I applaud the ban. At the same time it's important to remember that once again a section of the population is telling the rest what to do and what not to, so we should be wary of that. Maybe we could limit future bans to a trade-off. For each new ban, un-ban an existing ban, like helmets or seat belts?
When deciding whether to fly with a particular airline, it's a good idea to reflect on what level of training the maintenance crews might have under their belts, so to speak. I once knew a guy from Turkey who worked for Swissair, and once we were on a domestic flight from Istanbul to Izmir, a short hop. Anyway I noticed he was quite nervous and said to him "Didn't you used to work for this airline?" "Yes that's why I'm nervous!" "I thought you told me the pilots were well trained." "Yeah it's the maintenance people I worry about."
An Italian court has jailed a Tunisian pilot who paused to pray instead of taking emergency measures before ditching his plane, killing 16 people.
The twin-engined Tuninter ATR-72 turboprop aircraft was flying from the Italian city of Bari to the Tunisian island of Djerba on 6 August 2005, when it ran out of fuel and came down in the sea eight miles off the northern coast of Sicily.
Out of the total of 34 passengers and five crew on board, 23 survived. Many had to swim for their lives, while others clung on to floating pieces of the fuselage.
The Italian National Air Safety Board (ANSV) found in 2007 that the plane had run out of fuel because it had failed to take on enough before leaving Bari.
It said this was the result of a faulty fuel gauge, which had been installed the previous day by the maintenance arm of Tunisair, owner of Tuninter.
Ground crew had installed a fuel gauge designed for the ATR-42, which is similar to the ATR-72 but has smaller fuel tanks, the ANSV found. The same conclusions were reached by the manufacturer.
Prosecutors said that after both the plane's engines cut out, the pilot succumbed to panic, praying out loud instead of following emergency procedures and then opting to crash-land in the Mediterranean instead of trying to reach the nearest airport.
But to get back to Prez. Sarkozy. I did think it remarkable, if the report is correct, that he is taking the trouble, given the massive workload of any head of state, to put an end to the lie that the French were living since the war, and no doubt many started believing it, that the French somehow liberated themselves from German occupation. There was scarcely any mention made by De Gaulle of the Allied war effort to liberate France. How farcical is that!
Well everybody's scared of Putin, including yours truly. I just hope the world gets through the Putin years without major confrontation or conflagration!
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RE: The Smoking and Honesty Thread, cont...
It's rue Le Sueur but I couldn't find anything about it on Google so who knows? Maybe they did close.