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Subject: Re: OT Non SF Recommendations..
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 09:37:38 -0400
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On 9/4/2024 3:51 AM, D wrote:
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> 
> On Wed, 4 Sep 2024, Titus G wrote:
> 
>> On 4/09/24 10:31, William Hyde wrote:
>> snip
>>> My first day in the US I wanted to eat at a restaurant across the street
>>> from my hotel in Maryland.  As I got to the end of the hotel driveway I
>>> was confronted with nine traffic lights.  I ate at the hotel.  In fact,
>>> I never left the hotel except by cab.
>>
>> My first day in the US late last century was spent in Disneyland. We
>> decided on a Mexican restaurant close to the hotel in the Disneyland
>> area. Although the traffic wasn't heavy, the footpaths and surrounds
>> were filthy, poorly maintained and empty of pedestrians. Despite the
>> short distance we took a cab back to the hotel and did not attempt to
>> walk anywhere local again.
>>
>> My favourite reads in recent decades include your recommendation of
>> Robertson Davies' trilogies and Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet.
>> Do you have two or three more to recommend? Thank you.
>>
> 
> I recommend Chicago or Boston. Both, in my opinion, are excellent 
> walking cities!

So is Manhattan. So much stuff to see, and decent public transport
when you've decide you've walked enough.

Once, for no particular reason, I spent an afternoon walking the
entire length of Broadway, about 12 miles.

pt