Maggie's Farm

We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

Our Recent Essays Behind the Front Page

Much Sorry with Delays
Birth, Death and All That Stuff in Between
How to Honor Labor Day, Every Day
My Yom Kippur Miracle (Repost from 2010)
Good intro to fly casting
Peach update, with pie
NYC update
Easy for you to say: To the elites on mass immigration
For NYC on 9/11, Sailors' Snug Harbor
Pickled Peaches
Water Shoes
Labor Costs in U.S.
Your "identity"
Good news about The Great Courses
Uses of Hot Pepper Jelly/Sauce, Chutneys, and Jams
A Saturday Drive to Litchfield County, CT
How to Pick a Kayak
Civilized: Fruit forks and knives
Loads of kayaking on Cape Cod
Psychology Experiments' Questionable Results

Categories


All categories

Quicksearch

Links

Blog Administration

Open login screen

RSS Readers

Add to Google

Subscribe with Bloglines

Saturday, September 11. 2010

Mrs. BD plans a fantasy winter trip


A fantasy trip, that is. NetJets to Vienna. Five days at the Hotel Sacher with opera tix etc. Then onward maybe to Bucharest and Budapest. And why not Trieste, then down to Venice? Or tack on five days of skiing at Innsbruck or Zermatt? Those nice NetJets pilots will be there whenever needed, and the copilot will load and unload your skis and luggage and mix your drinks for you, and a car and driver will be waiting for you on the tarmac.


It's like I said about boats...


I don't need to go back to Venice, but the rest seems fine to me. That's why I buy Powerball tickets. Foolish not to.

Posted by Bird Dog in Our Essays, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 14:25 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

Trackbacks
Trackback specific URI for this entry

No Trackbacks

Comments
Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

Powerball a 'voluntary tax' that one can appreciate...
#1 dorf on 2010-09-11 17:41 (Reply)
If it flies, floats or f*&%#, it's cheaper to rent it.
#2 ss on 2010-09-11 22:03 (Reply)
I can fly to most of these cities from my local airport for about $100 return, not in luxury mind you.
#3 Thud on 2010-09-12 06:19 (Reply)
If Budapest, then Szobor Park, where the Hungarians wisely put all that socialist art out in the suburbs in somebody's back yard rather than destroying it. A fine way of mocking its pretensions.

I'd like to help the Romanian tourist industry, but there's not much to see in Bucharest. Fly into Cluj instead.
#4 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2010-09-13 01:17 (Reply)
I took the train from Istanbul to Romania in 1994. The idea was to spend a couple days in Bucharest, then get out to Transylvania. I was in Bucharest for one hour -- literally -- and couldn't stand it. Worst place I've ever been, and I've been to a lot. Went to the train station, said get me on the next train to Sibiu. Spent the week in Sighisoara and had a magical time.
#5 Clubbeaux on 2010-09-13 02:43 (Reply)
See? Like I said. Transylvania is part of Europe. The rest of Romania, not so much.
#5.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2010-09-14 17:30 (Reply)

Add Comment
(Your e-mail will not show in your comment)

By commenting on this site you agree to the site rules listed here. Email
addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for email notifications.

Quick reference guide: [i] italics [/i], [b] bold [/b], [u] underline [/u],
[url] (web address) [/url]. More tips here.

Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (*word*), underscore are made via _word_.
E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications.

To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly.
CAPTCHA

BBCode format allowed
 
 
A Chris Southern Consulting website.