On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:59:56 +0100, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What really is shocking is when you look on a globe and see what a tiny
place Europe is.
Depends what you are comparing it with. It's bigger than the USA.
John
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William Robb wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Malcolm Smith"
Subject: RE: Local Gas Prices
I find that Europeans and people from the UK who have not
been here generally just don't understand this about the USA.
Things are far apart here, and for the most part we don't
have transportation alternatives.
You're right on the whole. I've had maps out in the past to point this
out
to some folk (making the point about the map showing the same scale
for each
country) who wanted to make a motoring tour of the USA in a short
break....I
now nod and agree, it's much simpler and let them find out on arrival.
A friend of ours had a fellow from England over for a visit. He
decided he wanted to see a bit of the countryside, so we took a short
drive in the country, perhaps 4 hours at highway speeds (100kph). When
we got home, he wanted to see how much of Canada we had traversed, and
was rather shocked at how little he had seen when I showed him on a map
where we had gone.
William Robb
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