Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#1
As you may be aware the lovely MSC Lirica cruise liner is in today and while out meandering around the shops I was delighted to find quite a few of its passengers perusing the immediate vicinity of St Marys Church. Feeling buoyant about the sudden influx into our midst, I even managed to muster a smile, well for one or two of them I didnt want to go mad.
But my euphoria was short lived. Walking along another few yards I distinclty heard a female american accent in plaintive mode cry...
"This is what happens when you go it alone, you miss out on soo much"
Well thats it word for word.
Clearly the woman was disappointed not to have opted for the tour bus whisk off.
Are we doomed. Should we just accept defeat. Have we got nothing worthy of visitation?
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#2
Paul you should have whipped them round to Boland Towers for afternoon tea and cakes - would have gone down a treat with our US cousins!
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#3
Aye we're doomed, doomed Captain Mannering, joking apart they only have to go up to the Castle and have a wonderful time, just catch the next cable-car to save on their energy
Guest 654- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#4
Dover has a lot to offer, a world famous castle/cliffs
lovely seafront
hills with great scenery
plenty more heading into town and pier area
friendly people
churches in themselves are nice to look round
Dover's steeped in history
who was this women!!!!
I spotted some german sounding people in town enjoying Dover so there you have it
I wouldn't move.
#5
But it is as I recorded a while ago on this site - if you wander into Dover from the seafront with the eyes of a tourist, there is nothing to tell you what a fabbo place it is!!! I love it, but I live here and have taken time to get to know it - if I was just popping up from a cruise ship I wouldn't see anything to tell me about the exciting things.
Guest 654- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#6
point taken
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#7
Some time ago I was in Castle Street. A coach stopped. The tour guide got off and as the passengers alighted he said something like "Dis ist der Dover Schloss". They took their pictures, got back on board and went. Minutes later the same thing happened with a load of Japanese.
Perhaps that is all Dover is, just a photo opportunity!
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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#8
I'm practising that Terry for my trip to Germany, Ich bien a Berliner,dis ist berlin,or is that french
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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#9
Funnily enough they only German words I speak are travel words,hin and zeruck,Gleis,Ruckfart,banhof,but having the chance to go to Germany next month when my friends come here,I have had to book our flights on Air Berlin,and book the trains in Germany,thier reservation system is much better than our,and I should know!
You put in where you want to go and it works out the times and platforms lets you reserve the train and even issues the tickets on line,the only good thing about our system when you want to do most of this is that nice man at the train station,now whats his name are yes me...!
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#10
I still think the best question put to me by two German backpackers whilst standing on the railway bridge on Folkestone Road was a great one, as in 'Vo ist der bahnhof?'
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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#11
JHG - When JFK made that famous speech he didn't understand why people laughed. In Berlin a Berliner is a doughnut.
Barry - Perhaps they were looking for the U-Bahn not the S-Bahn! Mind you that might have been in the days before the Electrostars. Perhaps they thought that the 4-CEPs were part of a vintage railway.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#12
Terry that's funny! I think Harry may have put this one up on the Joke page in the distant past, An American tourist asked why was Windsor Castle built on the Heathrow flightpath?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#13
i always think that a good phrase when abroad is the local equivalent of "officer, that man has stolen my handbag".
ok, just me then.
Guest 654- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#14
Dover has a lot to offer, but its keeping the tourists here is the problem