Yippee, leave of absence to travel...
in [UK Motorcycles]
|
Prev: HG Pants, is it me or are they "pants" ?
Next: FOAK: Brembo brake parts (Long & may contain rant)
From: Mark Olson on 6 May 2010 12:08 Ace wrote: > On Thu, 6 May 2010 17:19:56 +0200, doetnietcomputeren >> Whaa? Plenty of US microbrewery beer is very drinkable. > > No. Some of it verges on the OK, but in general it's not a patch on > decent European lagers or proper English ales. "_Some_ of it verges on the OK" So, there are no outstanding high quality microbrewed beers whatsoever in the US?
From: YTC#1 on 6 May 2010 12:14 On Thu, 06 May 2010 14:00:46 +0100, Champ wrote: > On Thu, 6 May 2010 13:22:10 +0100, "Hog" <sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> > wrote: > >>I don't know why you wouldn't want to tour the US though. Amazing >>landscapes and lovely people. > > There's a few bits I wouldn't mind seeing. > > People are people tho - there's good and bad everywhere. I generally shy > away from the "people in [x] are lovely|awful" type of statements. Take UKRM as an example -- Bruce Porter XJR1300SP, XJ900F, GSX250, Pegaso 650 Trail POTM#1(KoTL), WUSS#1 , YTC#1(bar), OSOS#2(KoTL) , DS#3 , IbW#18 ,Apostle#8 "The internet is a huge and diverse community and not every one is friendly" http://www.ytc1.co.uk There *is* an alternative! http://www.openoffice.org/
From: YTC#1 on 6 May 2010 12:17 On Thu, 06 May 2010 14:05:18 +0200, doetnietcomputeren wrote: > On 2010-05-06 13:36:07 +0200, YTC#1 <bdp-spambin(a)ytc1.co.uk> said: > >>>> If you do 3 months, get a Visa incase you go over 90 days. >>> >>> Or, just make sure you cross one of the land borders during your stay. >> >> Urban Myth > > It isn't. yes it is. > >> Your 90 days start from entering the continent, crossing to Canada does >> not restart it. > > Really? UK passport hlders enjoy a visa waiver status with "The North > American Continent" now? I don't think so. They don't *but* the US imigration will not start the counting again unless you leave the continent. > > It worked okay for me. When I became unemployed, my L1 visa became > immediately invalid and I was out of status. A quick jaunt to Vancouver > for a few days meant turning in the I94 and when I re-entered, I did so > on a visa waiver with a new stamp, despite having a L1 visa page that as > far as CBP was aware was entirely valid (they had no way of checking > that I became unemployed the day previously). This was at the advice of > a very expensive attorney. Mexico would also have been fine, however, > the swine flu was just blowing up and they were closing the borders. Ok, I'll believe you > >> Lots of tales at the HU website. > > I'll go by my own experience and that of the attornies that were > advising me at the time. > >> We went into Canada, they checked all our docs etc, when we came back >> into the US we flashed the Visa and they didn't even glance twice at >> it. > > Sure, that's a good way, if you plan on getting the visa and going > through all the bollocks up front, which is worthwhile if you are > definitely staying longer than 90 days. Got one now, so happy. > > If you don't intend to stay longer than 90 days, using a border crossing > will get you out of trouble. As it turned out we were there 94 days > >> But when we flew back out, they checked the dates. Over staying in the >> US is frowned upon, they will let you out, but might not let you back. > > Well duh. Its not worth taking the chance. There was a cuple caught up in visa issues at Washington last year, they then made it worse by trying to cross again at another point less than 48 hours later. -- Bruce Porter XJR1300SP, XJ900F, GSX250, Pegaso 650 Trail POTM#1(KoTL), WUSS#1 , YTC#1(bar), OSOS#2(KoTL) , DS#3 , IbW#18 ,Apostle#8 "The internet is a huge and diverse community and not every one is friendly" http://www.ytc1.co.uk There *is* an alternative! http://www.openoffice.org/
From: Andy Bonwick on 6 May 2010 14:07 On Thu, 6 May 2010 12:22:41 +0000 (UTC), crn(a)NOSPAM.netunix.com wrote: >Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: >> >> For snowboarding? I did toy with an idea of a trip to Kamchatka once, >> but decided against. My other Russian trip, being in the Caucaus >> mountains, doesn't count as Asia, I don't think. > >Hmmmm - I thought the Caucausas are the boundary so it would depend >on which side of the mountain watershed. >But ICBW. I can't be arsed to look at a map to check but Mt Elbrus is generally accepted as being the highest mountain in Europe whereas Mt Blanc is the highest in *Western* Europe. I felt cheated after I'd walked up Mt Blanc only to be told it wasn't the highest in Europe. Note the use of the word walked as opposed to flew up.
From: Champ on 6 May 2010 14:45
On Thu, 06 May 2010 19:07:28 +0100, Andy Bonwick <nospam(a)bonwick.me.uk> wrote: >I felt cheated after I'd walked up Mt Blanc only to be told it wasn't >the highest in Europe. Note the use of the word walked as opposed to >flew up. Did you start at sea level? -- Champ We declare that the splendour of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo neal at champ dot org dot uk |