[ SECRET POST #2690 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2690 ⌋

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[My Little Pony: Equestria Girls movie]


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[Star Trek: The Next Generation/Reginald Barclay]


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[Dark Souls]


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[Call the Midwife]


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[The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim]


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[The Thing. Inception. EverymanHYBRID. Adventure Time]


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Comments

Re: Things you noticed when you traveled to a different country

[kallanda_lee]

A lot, I've been to many places - anything specific you were interested in?

The tipping this in America is still weird to the rest of us, but I think I got the hang or it.

Random things:

Apparently you need to "book" train tickets in India or some parts anyway. Like days or weeks in advance.

How polite/safe one is in traffic really does depend on the country and even the city.

It still baffles me that in most places they'll understand English.

Haggling: there are places where this is common, and expected. You will pay way too much if you don't. Strangely enough, haggling sometimes works in places you don't expect it. I've once managed to haggle successfully in the USA because because the saleswoman was probably just confused by me and thought it was custom where I lived or something.

You really cant understand Hungarian even if you speak 10 other languages because nothing is similar.

Alternatively, some language families do understand each other quite well, even though they're officially other languages.

There are towns in places like Greece that are basically ghost town outside of tourist season. You can have a bustling tourist nightlife there one day, then it could be empty two weeks later.

Different countries have very different attitudes about discussing the following: religion, who you vote for, how much you make. So unless you're sure, avoid the topics.

Re: Things you noticed when you traveled to a different country

[diet_poison]

Out of curiosity, where are you from?

Re: Things you noticed when you traveled to a different country

[kallanda_lee]

I live in Belgium. I can drive for less than an our and be in another country, which is pretty cool.

Re: Things you noticed when you traveled to a different country

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Conversely, my dad once had a tale about a European (German, I think) guy he offered to drive from Sydney to somewhere like Brisbane. The poor guy was practically crawling the walls of the car because it take so damn long to get places in Australia (at least by land).

Re: Things you noticed when you traveled to a different country

[(Anonymous)]

I just looked it up - that's not THAT bad. It's like 920 km. I've done even a bit more then that in a day, though it depends on road quality. But then to European standards, I'm pretty okay with long hauls. And I have no problems sleeping in cars.

Re: Things you noticed when you traveled to a different country

[kallanda_lee]

Sorry, that was me not logged in!

Re: Things you noticed when you traveled to a different country

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I think I recall he said it was more the guy was expecting to see more than a whole stack of seemingly empty land (it probably wasn't empty, the eastern coastal regions are almost all farmland, though there's some forest stretches.

But I suppose it's a question of individual tolerances.

Re: Things you noticed when you traveled to a different country

[kallanda_lee]

A lot of Europeans do have different measures for what "far" is. I go on weekends in Holland, maybe being a 2-3 hour drive and they think that's "far". It's another thing that is country-specific: perception of space and travel time.