CPT Trips

Yep! I saw this guy in the Bayonne terminal. 

2 hours ago, gnome12 said:

And I got it backwards, it should have been "gh" as in enough, not 'f".

2 hours ago, TheKingD said:

A much more fun word to talk about is Dagnabit!  Or Pshaw!

… I just discovered that I spelled dagnabbit wrong.

6 minutes ago, gnome12 said:

How do you pronounce "ghoti"?

fish

"f" and in enough, "o" as is women, "ti" as in nation.

Dagnabit, you beat me to it. 
 

Friend who learned English as an additional language always said the English has more exceptions than it has rules. 

20 hours ago, franski said:

The prairies have some interesting ones as well...  Flin Flon, Moose Jaw, Moosonee, Medicine Hat, Okotoks...  My daughter lives in Cranberry-Portage... often just called "Cranberry".

 

Fran

Reminds me of the 74&75 Flyers hockey team players home towns. 

1 hour ago, Kristelle said:

The only thing possibly different is that the dress code on river cruises seems to be more casual - so that might make it easier to decide what is not neccesary to bring.

 

PS you could try asking this in River Cruise forum, more regular river cruisers there.

We’re friendly over here on the river cruise board - https://boards.cruisecritic.com/forum/115-river-cruising/

DW and I typically tour and dine in same type clothes on our river cruises. Long pants, maybe capris if warm and collared shirt, long or short sleeve depending on the season. Nothing fancy, although she often takes a nice top. We take sturdy walking shoes for touring and comfortable loafers for TSA and aboard ship. 
 

Some of the trans Atlantic flights are quite strict on size and weight of carryons, so observe the limits posted on the website. 

Looking forward to the Boxing Day football schedule. 

And here’s hoping that our host is a DeadHead. By the way, the seller wanted $280 for the shirt. 

4 hours ago, notamermaid said:

Just to digress a little. Question about the Audi slogan. @Canal archive. Vorsprung durch Technik.

You would need to put it in a translation program. I do not think there ever was a translation for marketing purposes. I would say it means freely "being ahead due to excellent technical performance". It is so iconic that it has a German Wikipedia page:

 
Remember this? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_advertising

14 hours ago, Daisi said:

 

 

Ok, I was thinking of ones more around Lancaster area near Bird in Hand. 🙂 I still think Nfld has all places beat though with Dildo, which is named after a thole pin. 

 

Do you really think that beats (and it isn’t photoshopped)

On 12/21/2023 at 2:38 PM, UDChE89 said:

There are a fair number of German place names in the US with the most common one being Berlin

Our post office address here in NJ. 

8 hours ago, Daisi said:

 

 

Yes, there are certainly some "interesting" names for towns in both Canada & the USA. I know Newfoundland and Labrador, and Pennsylvania have some very good ones. 🙂

 

One of my favorite place names in Pennsylvania is King of Prussia. 

On 12/10/2023 at 10:21 AM, ural guy said:

The Technik Museum in Heidelberg, we'll probably walk over and do that on our own as well.

Speyer?

Most recent Christmas decorations we saw . . . at our hotel in Aswan. 
 

Indeed, it was awesome. Full disclosure, sails were up only for a short time. Although the ship is not motorized, it has a diesel generator on board and is pulled by a tug. 13 crew, four for the “hotel” and nine for the mechanical. 

Oops, forgot the ship. 
 

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The Nile is not like the European rivers we cruised. No commercial traffic at all. 
Dinner al fresco at the site of a small cantina, meal cooked on ship and served by ship’s crew. 
 

41 minutes ago, mahdnc said:

You probably thought I forgot about you.

Yep, I was having my doubts 😉. Thanks for remembering . . . this is just what I wanted to know. And the ladders were what I was hoping for, I hate the ones with all round metal steps. 

On 12/1/2023 at 9:59 AM, ural guy said:

East German border guard checked our bags,

In my experience in the ‘70s there was no interaction between the western allies military and East German officials. The only person to person contacts on the US duty train were between the US Train Commander and translator with the Soviet officer on duty and translator to formally process the passengers. An armed MP dismounted the train but had no part in the processing. 
The MP and Soviet enlisted men might have brief unofficial interactions, swapping Marlboros for various uniform items. That was mostly during colder weather when long overcoats were part of the uniform of the day. Good cover for the trade items😉

We are going, just wit some apprehension . . .

On 11/28/2023 at 9:30 AM, notamermaid said:

Anyone remember (from stories or having done that trip) the underground stations that were never stopped at because they ran through East Berlin?

I remember it well.

We (US military personnel including their dependents as well as British and French too) were not permitted to ride on trains that passed through those stations so it was just easiest for us to not use those lines. The U-Bahn was run by West Berlin and was almost entirely in the western sectors except for those few ghost stations
Berlin’s other rapid transit system operated throughout all of the city and some of the surrounding area in East Germany (DDR). It was operated by the DDR’s Reichs Bahn, even those lines and stations in the west. It was off limits to all the western allies military personnel because we didn’t formally recognize the authority of the DDR. Many West Berliner’s refused to use it as they didn’t want hard currency going to the DDR.

Tru

1 hour ago, Omax4 said:

If a pharmacy tech is discussing drug interactions with customers that is beyond their scope and illegal 

True. But it does happen. I’ve had questions answered by a tech, only got the pharmacist after requesting one. 

From a visitor’s perspective, book both a tour and a performance (do that in advance) at the Sydney Opera House!

If you plan to snorkel or dive from Cairns, go with one of the smaller boats (100 pax or so) that “anchors” rather than a larger boat or a tour that goes to one of the artificial islands. 

We leave for Egypt next month for a 13 day tour. We too were tempted to cancel and frankly I am still apprehensive. It was good to hear your positive experiences!
We have be reading similar reports on a private OAT Facebook group. 
The Nile portion of our trip is on a “yacht

It has been on DW’s bucket list “forever.”

Who thought they were Crossing the Delaware?
 

We were in Christchurch in October (land tour). We took this tour - https://www.kotane.co.nz - and enjoyed it. It’s only about an hour which left plenty of time for lunch at - https://riverside.nz - and then a visit to - https://quakecity.co.nz