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Originally Posted by DixieGal
You guys live in amazing places!
So Jellby, are you anywhere near Santiago de Compostela? That's on my "someday" list of places I want to go, but it never seems to be near any place we have been. We have a researcher here on campus who has made St. James' Starry Road his life's work. I try to go to his public lectures as often as possible.
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Oh, I'd love to go there! I've already been in Granada and loved the Alhambra. Now that my in-laws live close to there, I might go back...
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Originally Posted by griffonwing
I've always wanted to live in Wales. I love the Welsh language. I have a cd by Dafydd Iwan as well as Ceredwen. Beautiful language. I actually started learning it, but it's a tough language. I plan on starting up my practice again soon.
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Awesome language! I play an online game, and half of my characters have a Welsh "name" (aka, took a word, and translated it into Welsh). People always think I just hit the keyboard for some random strokes
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Originally Posted by Ea
Was just a vague ballbark number. It's more or less what Sweetpea said - but perhaps it'd be a bit more fair to go north-west to south-east, instead of north-south. It covers more of the country. From Skagen to Gedser there's 550 km ~6+ hours. And then we haven't counted in the island of Bornholm (south-east of Sweden) - and if we say it's the Kingdom of Denmark, instead of just the country, and include Greenland and the Faeroes, then the distances will be a bit different  |
I took a straight line, from Skagen to Hojer.
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Originally Posted by Ea
100 km equal one hour here, too, but I'd stil say that a distance is so and so km. I was in USA when I was 18 at a summer exchange program, and it was there I learned to give distance in time.
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I lived in New Mexico for a year... You'll learn to appreciate distances there
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Originally Posted by Ea
The railways in Europe is also a hot topic right now. Very tentatively discussed, but there's suggestions of building high-speed railways between the major European cities - for one reason to cut down on air traffic and thus CO2 emissions.
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Please! Rather today than tomorrow!