General Chat

I think what travel does do, as long as you really live amongst the people and meet and talk to them, is to make you more aware of other nationalities, their likes and dislikes, their quirks, why they act as they do or say what they do ................


in other words, it helps you become more attuned to other societies.


you don't get that by going on a coach tour, or staying only in a British enclave in "wherever".

You can however get it by reading books, watching real documentaries, etc ........ or even by talking to people of different nationalities in England.

Sylvia I am having a little laugh to myself, re coach tours. I won''t mention the names but someone I knew well was taking a Saga coach tour which happened to take in the area where some mutual ancestors had come from, so finding someone of the right name in the town ( there are 100s of that name in the area lol) she knocked on the door and invited herself in for tea as a 'long lost relative' ( by marriage), but was very disappointed in them because whilst they grudgingly made a cup of tea, they didn't offer her a biscuit :-)

Thanks to all for the interesting replies
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4 Sylvia

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34043523

yep, Rollo .....


we have fun in our elections


........... and there's only another 7 weeks to go before election day on October 19 :-D


Not listed in that piece is the on-going saga of the Senators elected to the Upper House (Senate) by Harper ................. somewhat equivalent to your life peers.

4 are currently either in court or waiting for their cases to go to court form various degrees of falsifying monetary reimbursements. 19 were guilty of a lower level of graft (if that is possible), re-paid the moneys and will be back in their seats.

The trial taking place right now is worthy of being turned into a comedy ............ all the PM's men who didn't read emails, were not in a room where 3 other people saw them, etc is quite amazing