From: "C.B.Tomkinson" <CBTOM@sdu.umist.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 11:21:45 GMT Subject: Touring Foreign Parts CC: staff-development@mailbase.ac.ukYork, England, should prove no stranger to you - at times it seems to be just like a Disney set. Americans are not only welcome but probably form the majority of people that you will meet on the street. Not only are they tourists but the local incidence of listening stations, early-warning radars and other spooks means that a fair number of them live around there.
If you want to sample the real England, why not hire a car? Over here they run on petrol - which is very expensive - but you'll soon get used to that. Journey out to the coast and sample the fleshpots of Bridlington and Skegness, Cleethorpes even. for a more sedate pace why not visit the charming fishing resort of Grimsby or the quaintly named Scunthorpe? Better still, travel east to Kingston-upon-Hull where a fleet of ferries will whisk you away to the European continent. To paraphrase one of York's well-known Swiss chocolate manufacturers:
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From: Andrew Cooper <LIB6ARC@uk.ac.leeds.novell.library> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 12:24:03 GMTGlad to know that UMIST policy does not yet extend to giving Hoffnung-style misleading advice for tourists ("Try the famous echo in the British Museum Reading-Room", "When entering a tube-train it is customary to shake hands with all the occupants", "Women are not allowed on the upper decks of buses. Should you see one there, politely ask her to descend" ....)