What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?
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Urban foxes are in every city. Foxes and coyotes. You just dont see them often.
Anecdotally I would say that London specifically, rather than the UK as a whole, has either an unusually high population of foxes or a unusually bold one. I've never seen so many out in the open as there
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That's not because of an organization trying to make Finland ignore the EU legislation using strategies that then cause us to run headlong against a wall, though.
Oh yeah, that.
I love that we have nice systems, but I hate it we have so many people who are not willing to see any flaws in Finland.
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Was it that hard? The UK was the subject and NZ was mentioned as the comparison.
wrote last edited by [email protected]In a list, after an em dash, and you've got four different points in time going on on two islands. It's all technically correct, and there's only the one way to interpret it that makes sense, but "the British town" would have improved readability.
Also, it's a crying shame more people don't know about NZ animals. Some of them are pretty unique.
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„If you are thirsty
Go to Wiekevorst.
There, you have a little dog
That pisses into your little mouth.”
(no drinking water)
Wow, here everyone would try to pretend that the iconic statue isn't weird and inappropriate. There, they put up a damn poem about it.
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Do rich people in Greece import sandstone?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Good question!
I would guess not widely, just because rich people get around, and standards of luxury are more interconnected than that.
In the past, you have things like spices being worth their weight in gold in Europe, and cheap in India. Or how the Inuit prized wood because it didn't grow anywhere they lived. Aluminum was a luxury metal originally, and there's stories about Napoleon using it for cutlery as a step up from silver.
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When I was a kid I got in the local library and looked at their copies of the maps of our city going back maybe 2000 years. A few things had been there that long, the high street and the cathedral, couple of other places. You could see how the town had grown, and sometimes contracted - it got hit hard a few times by plague, fire, and war. The maps didn't go back further but the place had been occupied much longer, way before the Romans came.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Hmm, cathedral contemporaneous with the New Testament happening in the first place. Nimes?
It could be Greece too, I guess. Or maybe you're rounding up, there's more options then.
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Hmm, cathedral contemporaneous with the New Testament happening in the first place. Nimes?
It could be Greece too, I guess. Or maybe you're rounding up, there's more options then.
Another option is I'm full of shit! I just looked it up, it is Worcester cathedral and was founded in 680. I think what I put in my comment was a childhood memory that I somehow never questioned.
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Another option is I'm full of shit! I just looked it up, it is Worcester cathedral and was founded in 680. I think what I put in my comment was a childhood memory that I somehow never questioned.
That's still pretty good, Europe was yet to really recover from the collapse of Rome at that point. I'll just call it rounding up.
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Living in the Black Forest is sometimes fun.
First of all people admire the "mountains". While yes, the Black Forest is not quite flat and especially in winter it is often underestimated (we have avalanches and occasionally people die in them) it's not like they are that step and high.
At least from my perspective - I grew up in the actual alps. It would be totally different If I grew up in the Netherlands.
(And again: The nature is nice and we have wild wolves, Lynx and s few other rare animals here)The other thing people totally get excited about is "Black forest cake".
But.. It has nothing to do with the Forest... it's just a reference to its looks and was invented hundreds of kilometres away. While you can get a decent one here by now, it's still funny.So...what is the most original thing you can get here? It's the thing the tourists think that they are all produced overseas.
The cuckoo clock.
Not kidding, while a shitload of them are cheap china trash, you can actually get nice ones for a reasonable price that were still built here. (And some really really nice ones that look modern and stylish as well. I need one of those one day,but they are ridiculously expensive)Other than that: Old buildings. My last apartment had some walls that were built at a time Australia wasn't discovered by Europeans yet. My kids friend lives in a house that is 800 years old - and always belonged to the same family. The hill the local kids go tobogganing in winter very likely was already used in that capacity 2500 years ago as some archeological sites have shown.
Even my current house is 80 years old and that sometimes sounds absolutely ridiculous to friends overseas.
The hill the local kids go tobogganing in winter very likely was already used in that capacity 2500 years ago as some archeological sites have shown.
No doubt by the fossilized remains of kids that perished on the slope by hitting the trees at the bottom.
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I've only been abroad one time, and there were little gecko/lizard things everywhere, climbing up walls and scurrying across roads, and nobody cared. I was constantly fascinated but to the locals they're just kinda there.
Bonus question to anyone who visited the UK - was there anything that fascinated you but I'd be taking for granted?
Pic unrelated.
You go to some tiny, dying town and it has 700 years of history, often 1000+ years of proof of habitation before that and a majestic church that is a work of art on its own.
