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Silver550 wrote:Thank you, Kurt. That looks like a great place to stay.
Anything out in the countryside you would recommend seeing?
Oh, and I'm used to getting sick and getting robbed when I travel
Kurt wrote:The sickest I ever got from food poisoning has always been in NYC.
JamesInTheWorld wrote:Kurt wrote:The sickest I ever got from food poisoning has always been in NYC.
The sickest I have ever been from food was in Paris - Everyone always thinks that you have to worry about the chow in the 3rd world when it is probably the expensive restaurants in the 1st world that will hold onto food way past the expiration date
~JITW
The sickest I ever got was from a restaurant in London.
Kurt wrote:Many years ago while I was hitching in Ireland I got picked up by an Aussie who had done the typical Aussie thing and travelled for three years. He claimed he did foolish food things throughout SE Asia and India and never got sick at all until he got to London, when he got food poisoning so bad that he had to be hospitalized with an IV to replace fluids (which is what I had happen to me a few months ago in NYC). Food poisoning like that is incredibly traumatic because you associate the food you ate prior to the illness, which with me was Japanese noodles, but that most likely was not the culprit. But it does not matter, I cannot eat Japanese noodles anymore.
What is weird about my food poisoning was that I had all the symptoms of Cholera. Massive dehydration, details I won't mention here but you can look up. This was before the Haiti cholera outbreak and in my feverish delerium I told the doctor in the ER that I have Cholera symptoms and he assured me that was impossible...and it probably was since the antibiotic I got was Levaquin and that worked really well but is not used for Cholera. It does have the unpleasant side -effect of causing your tendons to "rupture" under strain and cost about $20 a pill.
Silver550 wrote:Actually, it was Carluccio's out at Canary Wharf, but Wetherspoon's and pretty much any curry joint are notorious offenders, aren't they? I have plenty of friends that have not had stomachs strong enough to withstand the bacterial assault delivered by those institutions.
Kurt wrote:Many years ago while I was hitching in Ireland I got picked up by an Aussie who had done the typical Aussie thing and travelled for three years. He claimed he did foolish food things throughout SE Asia and India and never got sick at all until he got to London, when he got food poisoning so bad that he had to be hospitalized with an IV to replace fluids (which is what I had happen to me a few months ago in NYC). Food poisoning like that is incredibly traumatic because you associate the food you ate prior to the illness, which with me was Japanese noodles, but that most likely was not the culprit. But it does not matter, I cannot eat Japanese noodles anymore.
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