Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

neverdespairgirl

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Where should I go?

Looking for rustic, rural charm, lots of cheap (although preferably drinkable) wine and good food, and sunshine.

Somewhere in Europe.

Hoping the Nice People can pool their ideas and suggest somewhere tempting?

Somewhere in Bulgaria, not including Sofia. Or Romania, not including Budapest.

lostinrates

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4626705


Post seven the typo gets even funnier. I love its not me, but its very sweetly funny I think.

zagubov

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Where should I go?

Looking for rustic, rural charm, lots of cheap (although preferably drinkable) wine and good food, and sunshine.

Somewhere in Europe.

Hoping the Nice People can pool their ideas and suggest somewhere tempting?

Slovenia or the Croatian coast?

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Pet peeve number 127.

My observations of library staff is that they don't really want to make any eye contact and want to ignore you and shuffle books/put books back ... and hope that people sort themselves out with the self-serve PCs.

They certainly never have conversations with people, in fact most of the time they look blank and disengaged... and seem to be doing lots of monotonous work very slowly.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

My observations of library staff is that they don't really want to make any eye contact and want to ignore you and shuffle books/put books back ... and hope that people sort themselves out with the self-serve PCs.

They certainly never have conversations with people, in fact most of the time they look blank and disengaged... and seem to be doing lots of monotonous work very slowly.

Oh, at our library I have the opposite problem, and one of the reasons I have dropped off going, is the really lovely librarian who makes a beeline for me when all I want to do is browse in piece. She's so nice I don't want to hurt her feeling by being too frosty, and I bet she's great for most people...but she will keep making suggestions and that's not really how I choose books....my method is more like dowsing:D

chewmylegoff

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Where should I go?

Looking for rustic, rural charm, lots of cheap (although preferably drinkable) wine and good food, and sunshine.

Somewhere in Europe.

Hoping the Nice People can pool their ideas and suggest somewhere tempting?

The Maldives

I can't really help as I hardly ever go to Europe these days for anything other than skiing and irritating stag dos.

I did go to a very nice wine appellation in the south of France last year http://domainesaint-hilaire.com/index. It was rustic with rural charm and there was lots of wine. I thought the (English) owners were a little stuffy though. Not really a place for more than a couple of days either.

zagubov

Some european Islands? Canaries? Sardinia? Wasn't allthesses in Malta recently?Azores? Madeira?

Enjoyed Crete recently. Prices aren't coming down for dining out but the free desserts, liqueurs etc. they add make it great value. Actually after your recent posts about watching what you eat, maybe that's not such a good suggestion.

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

I went to get dog food and brussel sprouts.

That's probably a bit of a passion killer actually...sorry, I'm in a hurry, I'm craving some brusells sprouts'

Brussels in May?

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

Brussels in May?

I know, I know, but I was craving them so badly. And that us why I had to go out.......we didn't have any. You know when you fancy something and nothing else will do? That was sprouts yesterday and today......


They were delicious.

I am kind of wondering if I Might have more for breakfast

Spirit_2

silvercar wrote: »

No, just typing to fast. So if his name was James (which its not) I typed Jamse. Would probably not be noticed, but too risky not to sort.

OH has Visa for Russia in his passport. He was recently travelling via Moscow and his name had been mis-spelt on his booking. He expected a long wait at the counter and a lot of problems with Aeroflot. They were extremely helpful and arranged changed booking details to smooth his journey throughout.

Another negative sterotype busted.