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Most of the ladies seem to love Crepes y Waffles. I like their desserts. The entrees are fine, but not as good as the few creperies I've been to in the U.S.

Faro Granada was great, but expensive for a tacaño like me. Tizanos (sp?) was underwhelming... and expensive.

I always love Lenos & Carbon for a good heap o' meat. I find the steaks there generally better than U.S. steak joints, except expensive ones like Ruth's Chris Steakhouse.

Supposedly, the best beef in Colombia is in the cattle ranching town of Monteria. That's what my Monterian amiga told me, and I had to agree. I ordered the "lady size" = 500 g. I think, but it was well over a pound of meat, and extremely tender & tasty. I was crazy to finish it all; got a stomachache from so much beef.

Pete

If you are a steak lover the Argentine beef is excellent, especially at the nicer restaurants.  I had some huge tenderloins that were so flavorful, and very inexpensive.

Pablo

Pete

This is the corrective post I made IMMEDIATELY after posting the mistake in spelling.  My edit function does not work.  However this post was MYSTERIOUSLY deleted.  Seems the monitor of this board has joined the "good ole boy" network, or now to be called the "loser, can't get a life network".

Anyway, your original correction was not deleted, look a little closer.

    You give yourself too much credit. For me to hate you would mean that you are significant. Just a note,should you go to Cuba, you can't date the ones in the red uniforms. jim c

I think if you've got some good information for newbies than great I think everyone would enjoy reading it.  This is a free board and you're just as entitled to post as anyone else here.  

You may be the great expert you claim to be but since I don't know you from Adam and you've only been posting here for a few months, so far you only strike me as a person who likes to point out others misspellings or incorrect Spanish.  On the other hand, I've been reading Jim C for several years and although occasionly sarcastic his opinion is one that I respect and put a lot of faith in.  

I think you're mistaking the "good ole boy" network with respect.  Respect is something you earn over time, it's not something that's given freely.  A few guys like Jim C, Calivet and Pete have earned the respect of most people on the board because they've made a sincere attempt to help people and they've given a lot of good information over the years.  I don't always agree with their opinions but I've learned that not everything is black and white in this adventure of ours and honest opinions vary.

Also, I've learned that real experts don't generally try to persuade others what experts they are.  It's self evident.....

Pete

“he still maintains that women call other women "nene" in Cali, which is just not so. Now CAli James, if you want to take his advice the next time you're in Cali and call a woman "nene" go ahead, but you'll get a weird look.”

Just for the record, my novia calls me “nene” all the time, along with papi, papicito, papi chulo, and she even makes things up like “grillocito” (little cricket).  I have also heard her call total strangers “muneca” (doll).  In Latin America, words of affection are used freely and you can create them by forming diminutives typically by adding “ito” “ita”, “cito” “cita”.  Your novia will expect you to be creative and form your own words, for example, I call my novia “gusanita de mariposa” (the little worm of a butterfly).  When I say that she says “Que lindo”.  These words are very common in Latin countries and are used to create a warm feeling among friends.  

Anyway, if you're reading this Calipro, I suspect your amiga is probably fine with you calling her "nene".

Who cares, so Jim C spelled "gallina" phonetically as "gagina".  In the whole scheme of things does it really make a big difference one way or another that he spelled it incorrectly? We all knew what he was referring to and so there was no major harm done.  But your response is curious, do you truly believe that this misspelling "kills" any credibility he may have when it comes to Colombia and sharing his experiences.

If you truly believe this, then perhaps you suffer from a far bigger problem, that of making a mountain out of a mole hill.  

I jumped into this little word spelling contest because your part in it struck me as petty and vengeful and I thought I'd take a little poke at our resident expert in Spanish.  I don't really care too much about the war of words you and Jim were having before, there have been a thousand of these in the past and I am sure a thousand will follow. But the irony of you correcting the spelling of a guy you had a war with a few days before and then misspelling the phrase yourself was too much for me to resist.  I know you came back and corrected your misspelling but that doesn't change the irony for me but rather amplifies it.  You were so concerned about it that you "immediately" corrected yourself.

Johnny Cash: "The Ballad of Boot Hill", recorded and released 1958

Here lies Les Moore
Four slugs from a 44
No less, no more

And my lyrics

Here whines been there
B**ch slapped JimC, did not care
No mas, been there!

Good one beenthere, go to GREAT lengths to correct a guy's spelling, and in doing so, spell a word incorrectly yourself.  (-:

Also, what's up with the above quote, you actually hate Jim based on a few sarcastic exchanges??  You may be taking this board and yourself a bit too seriously.....

   Good to see you post once in a while.
Can't see why....the guy won't die, talk about a glutton for punishment. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. I am actually begining to feel like a bully. Naaaah !!!! he asked for it. Pretty strong post coming from you though. Suerte  jim

Steve

Pete

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