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Jun 14th, 2000, 04:47 AM
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Author: ilisa ([email protected]) <BR>Date: 6/14/2000, 8:33 am ET <BR> <BR>Message: <BR>Where: Southampton, England <BR>Status: Single, but getting married on 15th July 2000 !!!!!!!!! <BR>Occupation: Senior Analyst Programmer ... in other words general dogsbody !! <BR>Hobbies and likes: travel, Southampton football club (soccer), researching travel, dreaming about travel ... hmmm oh yes travel !! <BR>Dislikes: guns, violence, racism and bigotry, <BR>Goals: To enjoy my marriage/honeymoon/have loads of children ... well ok 2 !! just enjoy life to the full !! <BR> <BR>Mark <BR> <BR>
Jun 14th, 2000, 05:03 AM
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No that was not supposed to happen - Lets try again............ <BR>Where: New York - specifically Long Island <BR>Status: Female <BR>Occupation: Investment Banking <BR>Hobbies and Likes: Travelling (specifically European), eating out, playing with my 2 nieces, the beach, physical fitness (i'm a gym rat), movies, plays, museums, gardening, music (Springsteen!!!!!!), New York, reading (give me a good thriller), dogs. <BR>Dislikes: Rude people, people who never experienced Paris and say "oh I'll never go there they are so rude to Americans", shopping in Macys (they are the worst salespeople),bad service in expensive restaurants.
Jun 14th, 2000, 08:09 AM
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where: near Sacramento <BR>status: aged 43, married, 1 pre-teen daughter (help!) <BR>occupation: teacher (so I'm free!) <BR>hobbies and likes: this forum, books, summer, obviously European travel <BR>dislikes: cigarette smoke, poopy travel companions <BR>fears: flying <BR>message to all: thanks so much for all the great advice and suggestions
Jun 14th, 2000, 08:31 AM
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Where: Atlanta <BR> <BR>Status: 31, married, no kids. <BR> <BR>Occupation: Investment Banking <BR> <BR>Likes: Traveling with my wife, Margaret, my ATM card when it works, dinner and a nice bottle of wine in a newly discoverd neighborhood restaurant, college radio (88.5 in Atlanta). <BR> <BR>Dislikes: Having to support fiscally irresponsible people, single drivers in SUVs, smelly French cheese.
Jun 14th, 2000, 12:21 PM
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Message: <BR> <BR>Where at: New Jersey, and I'm from the South! <BR> <BR>Status: Happily married (26 years) male <BR> <BR>Occupation: VP Sales (financial services company) <BR> <BR>Likes: Chateaneuf du Pape, nice mannerly people, experiencing something different from my Southern, Southern Baptist roots...like Palm Sunday services in Notre Dame, great beers of the world, adapting to travel differences, Tuscany and Italian cooking, Florence and hill towns, Munich and laid back style, long train rides in Europe, friendliness of the people of Scotland, beauty of Austria...etc <BR> <BR>Dislikes: rude, obnoxious travelers, people that go to Europe and complain because it's not like the US, well DUH!, <BR>when the good guys lose and of course Al Gore and Bill Clinton!
Jun 14th, 2000, 12:37 PM
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Where: Philadelphia <BR>Status: Female, married, 26 yrs old, no kids, 4 cats <BR>Occupation: Business Architect <BR>Hobbies and likes: Reading, traveling, all animals, spending time with husband and family, discovering new restaurants <BR>Dislikes: narrow minded selfish people, people who dislike animals
Jun 14th, 2000, 03:03 PM
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Where at: Currently living in Louisville, working in Cincinnati, and soon to be moving to the Cincinnati area <BR>Status: Female, 30, single <BR>Occupation: Analyst for a software company <BR>Hobbies and likes: Foreign travel, cooking, reading, tennis, snow skiing, and history <BR>Dislikes: Not having a lot of vacation time! <BR>Goals: Travel to Europe at least once a year.
Jun 14th, 2000, 08:43 PM
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Where: Honolulu <BR>Occupation: Legislative Office Manager, mom, environmental activist <BR>Enjoy: these lovely islands, this forum, travel, la langue française y la cultura española, culinary expeditions, martial arts <BR>Dislikes: hmm...not having enough vacation time, and that the Concorde doesn't fly into Honolulu <BR>
Jun 15th, 2000, 09:38 AM
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Where: hinterland of Arizona <BR>Who: retired banker married 48 years <BR>Like: our grandchild, people with spirit of adventure, travel to distant places, coming home, hot showers, interesting conversation. <BR>Dislike: young people who think older people have nothing to offer, older people who think young people have nothing to offer, liver, snobs, ill-fitting shoes, people who judge only by appearances, the accumulation of money for its own sake, right-wingers and religious bigotry, people who always take their vacation at the same place ("we have our cottage in Wisconsin and wouldn't think of going anywhere else"), laziness, hot weather (it's 106 here today).
Jun 15th, 2000, 10:16 AM
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Where: NYC area <BR><BR>Status: 50ish and in my prime <BR><BR>Occupation: writer/tv correspondent <BR><BR>Likes: most everything except sailing, gambling, bridge--especially soft adventure, the arts, historic sites/sights, great food and wine, scenery, laughter, friendship <BR><BR>Dislikes: lack of risk-taking, non-curious types, status quo, bigotry.
Jun 24th, 2000, 07:53 PM
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Where at - Virginia <BR> <BR>Status - Married 12 years; no kids <BR> <BR>Occupation - Hairdresser; going to college for career change <BR> <BR>Likes - Cooking, crafting, movies, reading, self-deprecating humor, helping people on the U.S. forum board, regularly relocating (husband in the military) <BR> <BR>Dislikes - People who don't say "thank you", "excuse me" and "please", the price of gasoline, having to hem all my pants, people who talk in movie theaters <BR> <BR>Goal - To someday travel to Europe, armed with all of the great advice I've been reading on this board 
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Jun 24th, 2000, 10:40 PM
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Where: Vancouver, B.C. <BR>Status: female, married, two kids <BR>Occupation: self-employed <BR>Hobbies & likes: reading, walking, chocolate, watching daughter play softball and travel (especially to Venice) <BR>Dislikes: intolerance, news programs <BR>that must drone on and on about breaking events - just summarize with updates.
Jun 25th, 2000, 06:14 AM
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Where: Chicago Suburb <BR> <BR>Status: Male/Married / 2 sons in college <BR> <BR>Occupation: Asst. Chief local Fire Dept. <BR>Also work with student exchange progam as area rep. <BR> <BR>Hobbies: Enjoy golf but not too godd at it. Learning from my exchange students. <BR> <BR>Likes: Quiet time and solitude. Mowing my grass. My job. My family. <BR> <BR>Dislikes: Large crowds (but I am going to Rome this summer), traffic, pushy people, and fanatics on any subject. <BR> <BR>
Jun 25th, 2000, 06:14 AM
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Where at: San Antonio TX <BR>Status: Female, married 31 years to a guy who was in the AF for 21 years, lived in Europe 10 years during that time, raised 2 boys, older now, also mom to 12 foreign exchange students over last 10 years who also call me mom <BR>Occupation: piano teacher in evenings, works at military installation during day creating briefings for high ranking visitors <BR>Hobbies and likes: collecting snowglobes from places I've been, Pomeranians, reading about travel, traveling, reading historical novels and suspense fiction novels, playing piano, going to the theater to see plays and musicals <BR>Dislikes: most new TV shows, lazy, ignorant people, high gas prices, current president and his staff <BR>Goals: to pay off the house and bills, save money and quit my day job so I have some free time, also to get in more Europen travel while I still have that extra income <BR> <BR>
Jun 25th, 2000, 07:07 AM
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Where at: Country town in Western Australia. <BR>Maritial Status: Very Happily married for 15 years with four children. <BR>Likes: Being a Christian Lady, having a purpose and a peace in my life, passionate about Italy and Italians (I married one!!) needlework, calligraphy, saxophone music, reading next to the fire, my husband, thoroughly enjoying the Fodors forum for all the information for our 'Sogno Italiano' this Autumn... just my hubby and me...Sigh... <BR>Dislikes: Mediocrity, Chauvinism, Hard heartedness.... <BR>**THANKS for all your wonderful advice!!**
Jun 25th, 2000, 07:16 AM
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Where: Connecticut <BR>Status: Female <BR>Occupation: Research psychologist at Yale <BR>Hobbies: playing with my Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever puppy, traveling (of course), trying to create the dishes that I have eaten in Italy, Reading. <BR>Dislikes: hearing people say "thank you" in English when in a non english speaking country, Rick Steves, always being in debt, my infertility <BR>Goals: To get pregnant and carry full term with a health child, rent a place in Europe on the water with that child, my husband and our dog. My husband, who works at BIC (pens etc..)to get a job at one of their European plants so that he can get his BMW motorcycle which I promised him if he does.
