Europe section description
 

Questions about the legendary cultural capitals of Europe, from the vineyards and chateaux of the Loire Valley, the lovely villages of Oxford and Stratford-upon-Avon, the hill towns of Tuscany, and the spectacular scenery of the Alps – FlyerTalkers have been there, done that and live there with advice for all. If you have ever thought about climbing the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy, floating down the Danube River in Austria, or run with (or away from) the bulls in Spain, then these and many other threads await you.

Why are the bolded phrases in the 'Europe' description? Shouldn't posts about those topics be under the 'France', 'Italy' or 'UK and Ireland' sections? :confused:

Agree. While, of course, those are interesting sights in Europe, surely there are so many others without their own sub-forums worth mentioning.

I think those references to Stratford on Avon etc should come out immediately... all they will do is tempt people to post in the wrong forum!

Also... that description is awfully long. My "My Flyertalk" used to fit on the screen, now it doesn't any more. I think there should be a maximum of - say - two lines per forum description.

Agree with the previous posts and the grammar needs to be fixed.

The villages of Oxford and Stratford-upon-Avon?

Vineyards, chateaux and the Alps as cultural capitals?

It's a little confused.

Actually, now I look at the 'The World' descriptions that are in place, I'm not really mad keen on any of them. Surely Flyertalk is a global forum, about business and leisure travel? The descriptions make this section sound like a brochure for a if-it's-Tuesday-it-must-be-Belgium tour. While I'm sure that's part of it, I would be very disappointed if that were to become the focus for these sections.

And the advice on Flyertalk about running with the bulls in Pamplona is DON'T.

Here's a photo of North American David Jacob who got knocked unconscious recently.
http://www.noticiasdenavarra.com/edi...49.1303699.php


And this is a great photo gallery showing what it's like
http://www.noticiasdenavarra.com/galerias2008/
Some stunning shots in there, all from the past few days

Please!!! On all of them. Can't stand to see "Wagner's opera's" ;)

Quite apart from the obvious mistakes ('villages', etc) and the fact that many of these places would belong in dedicated country sections, personally, I just find the way it is written rather 'tacky' - which is certainly the opposite of what FT normally is.

Also, there is plenty of usage of the European sections from people within Europe (discussing other places in Europe) and it is certainly they who provided a high percentage of the up to date answers.

But that description is rather external to Europe sounding. In fact, mostly people would read that as a forum limited to 'doing Europe' type people....

I'd loose the description entirely.

Also, "little-known trattoria’s, ".

After taking a few days to look at them, these are the words that come to my mind about the new descriptions:

Verbose (someone suffered with a severe case of diarrhea of the keyboard).

Sophomoric.

A bad case of the "cutes".

Redundant.

Embarrassing.

The Europe description is pretty bad, but I think that the Germany and Italy descriptions are the worst. It is painfully obvious that those two were written by the same person. They make my eyes hurt.

I realize that some people put in some time and effort into this endeavor, unfortunately,the descriptions need to be reworked entirely. Next time remember the old adage, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it.". Also, it's a good idea to subscribe to the K.I.S.S. principle.

sorry, folks I am travelling. Randy changed the forum descriptions. we can work out a better one and ask randy to edit it. ;)

greetings from Normandy

chrissxb
moderator
europe forum

You just gave me the answer for the question: Who made the descriptions ?

Would questions/info/postings about Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan be found here in the Europe branch, the Asia branch, or elsewhere? It seems these countries fall into either Europe or Asia, depending who you talk to.

Thanks!

My vote FWIW is for the description to be VERY short - max two lines - so it doesn't further lengthen the page. "The World" first page is a whole lot longer now than it was pre-descriptions. It was a little over a page, then broke two, and now is heading for spilling over onto a 4th page.

Romelle

Thinking about this more now... do we actually need descriptions AT ALL?

Airline specific forums don't have descriptions, so why do we need descriptions for destination forums? The title really says it all. Europe. Germany. New York.

The descriptions don't add any value. They're just clutter.

IMHO the only forums that need a description are those where the content isn't clear from the tile, such as Travel Buzz.

So - why not just get rid of the descriptions completely?