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One can travel without Visa. Is it so Richard Barrett?
I am not an expert on Visa(s), but I think one doesn't need a Visa to travel in EU countries.
I don't know politic much. I try not to listen too much. My opinions are too flexible. I hear people say contrary things about it.
But for thravel isn't it better not to have a Visa?
Am I wrong again?
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« Reply #16 on: 15:13:37, 27-09-2008 » |
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I am glad now that so many former East block countries joined the EU.
And why is that? Well it was nice for us to go there without restrictions and with no need to change currency, but the lady we spoke to in the Koper/Capodistria Municipal Museum told us that the cost of a capuccino in a cafe had doubled since joining the euro. She was pretty nostaglic for the days of inclusive health care and education and full employment, as well. |
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« Reply #17 on: 15:16:21, 27-09-2008 » |
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There are people in Russia who are nostalgic about Stalin's time.
In fact I am sometimes nostalgic (not about Stalin's time). Then I wake up and want to beat myself on the head.
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« Reply #18 on: 15:31:11, 27-09-2008 » |
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I am glad now that so many former East block countries joined the EU.
And why is that? Well it was nice for us to go there without restrictions and with no need to change currency, but the lady we spoke to in the Koper/Capodistria Municipal Museum told us that the cost of a capuccino in a cafe had doubled since joining the euro. She was pretty nostaglic for the days of inclusive health care and education and full employment, as well. Quite so. My point was that although those of us (including me of course) who are privileged enough to be able to travel through these countries do indeed seem to benefit from reduced hassle (even if we end up paying more in other ways), that's small beer compared to the economic impact on most of the people who have no choice but to live in them, or indeed compared to the benefits to multinational companies who can move in and increase their profits by exploiting cheaper real estate and labour. The latter of course is the real reason the EU exists. |
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« Reply #19 on: 15:59:55, 27-09-2008 » |
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I don't know anything about economic impact, but so far it was all right. There are more countries in EU which makes EU a bigger economic unit. Isn't it make it easier for companies to compete with oversee's big companies?
I hope it will be all right for economy. But how much new music and new traditions we will get.
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« Reply #20 on: 17:01:46, 27-09-2008 » |
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Without for a moment wishing to overlook the political and economic matters -
Sancho went into the bushes at the side of the road in Slovenia and when he came back he told me he had been interrupted by a wild boar. Further interrogation established that it was a wild boarlet - small with no hair as yet but tusks. It scampered back into the bushes on seeing a human, and the human zipped up and returned to the car, before Mummy Boar and Daddy Boar should return to see what had so startled the runt of their litter.
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« Reply #21 on: 17:34:04, 27-09-2008 » |
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That is good sign, don Basilio,
Now we know there is wild life there still. I once encountered elk in a forest near Moscow. We frightened each other, but there was no other harm.
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« Reply #22 on: 18:05:54, 27-09-2008 » |
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« Reply #23 on: 20:20:30, 27-09-2008 » |
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I for one would like to say how relieved I am that we weren't blessed with a picture of Sancho watering the bushes.
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« Reply #24 on: 20:59:54, 27-09-2008 » |
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He's a very modest boy. But gives wine waiters hell.
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« Reply #25 on: 08:36:12, 28-09-2008 » |
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And we went to Bayreuth. (This picture has not been modified.) |
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« Reply #26 on: 09:32:46, 28-09-2008 » |
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Possibly this photo of the Festspielhaus at Bayreuth has been a bit modified |
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« Reply #28 on: 09:37:20, 28-09-2008 » |
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Nice to read that you had a lovely holiday, Don Basilio (let's forget about Belgian motorways). I like the picture of the German street sign (by the way: Belgian street signs are horrible and never to be found on the spot where you're looking for them). German street signs are a bit different from Dutch ones:  This a modern Dutch street sign:  Paul Citroen was a Dutch artist, famous in this country for his portraits:  Portrait by Citroen of Helmuth Plessner, a German philosopher and sociologist who lived in het Netherlands after 1933. |
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"People hate anything well made. It gives them a guilty conscience." John Betjeman
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« Reply #29 on: 09:39:17, 28-09-2008 » |
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This is the original:  Thanks, Pim. There were Walkurenstrasse and Meistersingerstrasse near by. Streets signs are never visible when I want to see them, in any country. |
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