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Posted by Jacqueline Church Jun 6, 2008 |
This Top Ten list from Reuters caught my eye. But maybe that's because I don't have much of a view right now. Top Ten Restaurants with a view, includes two in Dubai and one in Beirut, one in Tel Aviv, one in Turkey. Looking at the recent world events, I'm thinking that adds up to about 50% of the list being located in countries that carry US State Dept Traveler's Advisories.
Besides, my rule-of-thumb, based on my highly scientfic two-week sprint across the US with a soon-to-be-ex boyfriend in a VW in the early 80's. Actually, I gained more than one life lesson from that trip, And at least one food rule. The food related lesson has to do with the restaurants that advertise their view. Avoid them. 9 times out of 10 they're hawking the view because the food stinks.
What the US State Dept doesn't tell you in those Traveler's Advisories is that 11 days in a Jetta with a soon-to-be-ex boyfriend is much more hazardous to your health and his than a trip to the Middle East. But, if you happen to be visiting Dubai or Beirut anytime soon, please let me know how you found the view and the food of the restaurants recommended by Reuters. Maybe the rule needs amending.
The other life lesson involved the hubris of two young New Yorkers learning what it means when Colorado State Troopers tell you NOT to attempt a mountain passage in a certain amount of snow without chains or an emergency requiring passage AND chains.
The corrollary is that if the diner waitress tells you her dog threw up from looking out the car window down the cliffs on that pass, it probably IS pretty steep....