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Vegetarian seeks tasty food in Western Europe

embrangled — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:57:04 -0800

What tasty foods should an adventurous vegetarian eat in the UK and Western Europe? I eat eggs and dairy, but not meat and only rarely fish. I'm not overly uptight about trace animal products or stock. I'll be travelling through England, The Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany. These countries aren't generally known as hotbeds of vegetarianism, but I'd still like to try as many interesting local foods as I can.

A meat-eating friend has been joking that I'll starve - I'm more optimistic, so help me prove him wrong. I'm not worried about what I'll eat, but I'd like to expand my culinary horizons beyond "That one vegan cafe in the hippy district". Which quintessential European meals and snacks just happen to be meat-free?

How can two Seattle residents best go about looking for jobs in London?

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:46:37 -0800

How can two Seattle residents best go about looking for jobs in London? My wife and I have been talking about moving to London for a while. Ideally, we'd like to both find jobs in London, live there for 2-3 years, then move back to the U.S.

We would like to have jobs and be living in London 1 year from today. We love Seattle... we just want an adventure before we have a baby.

- What has been your experience with finding (or not finding) a job in London?
- What should we expect with regard to potential time lines, snags, red tape, and pitfalls?
- What tools to job searching/networking have you found useful?
- What government agencies/government connections did you use in your quest? (i.e. if your Senator/Congressman was a good friend, could he/she help speed things along, side-step hang-up, and/or
- We want to live in London... not a 1-hour Tube ride from Central London.
- What have I not asked that I need to know?

Our employment backgrounds:
She is 26, I am 28. My background is business (primarily sales & marketing) and I've been fairly successful, despite my age. Her background is architecture, though she's looking to switch her focus to humanitarian efforts. Potentially working with organizations as a project manager for different efforts.

Our current combined income: $105,000/year (pre-tax)

What's a great vacation spot between London and Brussels?

canine epigram — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:20:56 -0800

Help me plan a connecting leg in my winter trip to Europe! My wife and I are going to visit friends in London for a week and then traveling onward to Brussels to stay with another friend. What are some great ideas for places on the way from the first to the second that might make for a great stop-over for a few days of just the two of us? We're going in February because that's what works for the friends who will be hosting us on either end and we can afford it. It was my hope that the two of us might visit somewhere neat and different in between for a few days if at all possible.

(We've both been to Paris and will probably be visiting it again with our friend from Brussels so that's off the list.)

So lay out your suggestions for wonderful spots betwixt the two cities that we can get to easily. I imagine we'll be taking trains from one city to the next. Bonus points for romantic, unique, or picturesque even in winter.

If you don't have any ideas for that, I wouldn't mind hearing suggestions for the area around Brussels (I've heard that by itself it's not much to look at). I've been to London a few times and know all the big sights but my friends are newly arrived there and might want to check some of them out.

Recommendations for European holidays with a 19month old in tow?

blacksky — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:17:56 -0800

Recommendations for European holidays with a 19month old in tow? We live in the UK, and are looking for recommendations for holiday destination in mainland Europe that are toddler friendly, yet affordable.

Specifically which hotels/apartments have you stayed in with your toddler that you felt was well equipped and welcoming for little ones.

More generally, what are your experiences with resort holidays vs the more free-range type holiday with toddlers in tow?

Although we're open to package/resort holidays, in the past, we've booked our own flights, hotels, transfers etc in places like the south of France, or northern Italy and thoroughly enjoyed that kind of freedom. We are particularly worried about the availability of things like high chairs, cots, car seats etc to borrow/rent so we don't have to lug them around with us.

Lookout Europe, here I come

barrakuda — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:20:01 -0800

What are some good job search websites/engines for Europe? I'm interested in jobs in international affairs, public relations, business and finance, advertising and marketing. I'm mostly looking for resources for Germany, Belgium, France and the UK, but pan-European websites are good too.

Webhosting in the UK/EU, honest advice needed

thelost — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:16:42 -0800

I'm looking for honest views/reviews of UK/European web hosting. I know it's easy to google, however there is so much spam and disinformation regarding hosting that I got sick of trying to find anything regarding it. I need your help! I am looking for honest websites that provide independent, unpaid for reviews of web hosting in the UK/Europe.

I would also be interested in hearing peoples personal experiences of web hosting.

I currently have my sites hosted with hostcolor and my experience has been beyond awful, although at the moment everything is thankfully fine. If it were just my site it would be ok, however I made a professional site for a friend and for several months after it went live we were plagued by various nightmarish problems; It became pretty embarrassing.

Talking technical I have several requirements.

* Unix/Linux Hosting.
* PHP/Mysql (multiple databases)
* POP/IMAP
* 1Gig Webspace Min.
* 10-20+gb monthly transfer
* Multi-domain
* FTP, SSH would be a definite plus but not essential

You get the basic set up.

I'm absolutely sick of webhosting sites which are just fronts for hosts scratching each others backs, pimping their products, so any advice is appreciated!

Moving to Europe?

kaseijin — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 08:18:23 -0800

Interested in possibly moving abroad in a few years, either to the UK or to France... I am currently a graduate student looking to attend medical school starting next year. My girlfriend is a French teacher. We have been mulling over the idea of living abroad after I finish school, but Google gives me so many vastly different suggestions and answers as to be near useless.

Does anybody, either European national or US ex-pat, have any suggestions on moving to UK or France? I know she can find a job fairly easily, but how would it be for me as a future physican? What sort of exams are there, etc? Is there a demand there? I quite like the pace of living and attitudes of the people there, and could get along fine on a personal level, but I am worried about employment abroad.

What was the first match played using Football Association rules?

Dreamghost — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:53:01 -0800

What was the first match played using Football Association rules?

US Playstation games USSR

GrumpyMonkey — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 07:18:19 -0800

Is there a difference between US and European playstation games? I want to get games for my nephew and brother-in-law who live in Moscow but my sister says that games bought here (the US) will not play there. I have googled and asked at a bunch of stores and have gotten many different answers. Has anyone here had any experiences with this? They could not use that playstation that they got here and had to get a new one over there but I thought that had more to do with the voltage and type of television.

Euro-Based PayPal

krisjohn — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 20:16:20 -0800

Is there a euro-based alternative to PayPal? I'd like to get back into the on-line auction scene, but I don't want to have to deal in US$ because they're too all over the place.

Transmissions

twine42 — Fri, 21 May 2004 16:00:35 -0800

Every manual transmission car I've ever driven makes a strange high pitched whining noise when going in reverse at more than about ten miles an hour. They don't make the same noise at the same revs in any forward gear. So why the difference? These are UK / European transmissions if that makes any difference.

3 Weeks in Europe

emptyage — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 09:54:32 -0800

Let's say you're spending three weeks in Europe late this summer. The first week is in Denmark, the third is in Ireland. Where would you spend the second? You'd like to go somewhere off the beaten path (in other words not Paris, London, or Amsterdam), but don't want to spend too much time in transit. You'd rather go somewhere rural than urban, you have a limited budget, and you'd prefer culture to castles and cathedrals. Any suggestions?

Closed captioning vs subtitling while using DVDs from different regions

NekulturnY — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:01:42 -0800

DVD question: I bought a European release of Frasier, season 1 - complete with subtitles etc. - but it seems like I'll have to buy seasons 2 -10 in the region 1 version.

Region compatibility is not an issue, but I wonder if "closed captioned" means that a DVD is subtitled, meaning: will I be able to get to those subtitles here in Europe, or do I need one of those hearing impaired set top boxes I've heard about (they seem to exist in UK and USA, maybe Canada as well)?

Do I have to pay UK duty on cigarettes and alcohol sent via post?

twine42 — Thu, 26 Feb 2004 03:15:05 -0800

A question about UK/European tax/duty and shopping abroad... I've tried asking Customs and Excise, but we got trapped in a loop where they asked me my postcode 'to help answer my question more efficiently' and then passed it on to someone else who asked the same question... So I thought I'd ask the experts.

I know that I'm allowed to bring a 'personal allowance' of booze and fags in to the country when I go abroad. And it's all because of the free trade laws across the EU. But what happens when I purchase said items by post?

Assuming it's still a small quantity for personal use, does it count as duty paid, or will I get stung for it?
And all because I fell for Rum 'Elixir' in Cuba and can't find the damned stuff outside of Spain...