How to Spot an American in Europe
May 16th, 2015, 05:29 PM
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clausar.. your first choice is right, it's German.
kerouac.. and once a year (I cannot remember the exact details), the Flemish communities which surround Brussels - geographically, the capital region is an island in Flanders - go out on the streets to form a (more or less, probably less) human circle around the capital to remind it of that fact..
leSenator... I beg your pardon, but after 30+ trips TO the US, I think I have a very good record of bringing back that capital back to your economy. And while several regions in Europe may depend on overseas tourism, I would say that also Florida had fewer malls if there was less tourism from Europe.
While, as usual, it took only a mildly silly article on the web to take a thread further South than Antarctica, I think that there is also some truth is saying that even in the presence of (or maybe because of) the ongoing economic globalization, the relationship between the "cousins" on either side of the Atlantic has changed quite a bit over the last decades. At least during those decades I have been around.
Which is no wonder, I guess, as times go by and issues of the 1950s or 1970s have little importance in the 2010s.
kerouac.. and once a year (I cannot remember the exact details), the Flemish communities which surround Brussels - geographically, the capital region is an island in Flanders - go out on the streets to form a (more or less, probably less) human circle around the capital to remind it of that fact..
leSenator... I beg your pardon, but after 30+ trips TO the US, I think I have a very good record of bringing back that capital back to your economy. And while several regions in Europe may depend on overseas tourism, I would say that also Florida had fewer malls if there was less tourism from Europe.
While, as usual, it took only a mildly silly article on the web to take a thread further South than Antarctica, I think that there is also some truth is saying that even in the presence of (or maybe because of) the ongoing economic globalization, the relationship between the "cousins" on either side of the Atlantic has changed quite a bit over the last decades. At least during those decades I have been around.
Which is no wonder, I guess, as times go by and issues of the 1950s or 1970s have little importance in the 2010s.
May 17th, 2015, 12:20 AM
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CowBoy
1st week end of september.
Funnily enough wiki présents it as a sportive event.
I've got some friends who do that, seems it is quite nice.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Gordel
1st week end of september.
Funnily enough wiki présents it as a sportive event.
I've got some friends who do that, seems it is quite nice.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Gordel
May 17th, 2015, 04:05 AM
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LeSenator must live in Disneyland, handsome princes and all.
The past 20 years of leading the West into some sort of crusade against Islam must be a figment of my imagination. Along with the 20 years before that, with the crusade against communism, all leaves much collateral debris.
Think you'll find much warm feeling swinging towards the East now. Many Europeans have given up with the "bomb them to keep our economy going" culture which seems to exist in The States.
The past 20 years of leading the West into some sort of crusade against Islam must be a figment of my imagination. Along with the 20 years before that, with the crusade against communism, all leaves much collateral debris.
Think you'll find much warm feeling swinging towards the East now. Many Europeans have given up with the "bomb them to keep our economy going" culture which seems to exist in The States.
