Volker Hetzer wrote:
> jeremyrh.geo@yahoo.com schrieb:
> >
> > On 26 jan, 11:02, Volker Hetzer wrote:
> >> Martin schrieb:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:41:38 +0100, Volker Hetzer
> >>> wrote: > Martin schrieb: >> On Thu, 25
> >>>Jan 2007 16:34:11 +0100, Volker Hetzer >>
> >>>wrote: >>> jeremyrh....@yahoo.com schrieb: >>>> On 25 jan, 09:24,
> >>>Volker Hetzer wrote: >>>>> My first
> >>>impression was always the dirt. >>>> Eh? Dirt? Are you Howard Hughes?
> >>>>>> No. >>> I'm simply not used of almost every road lined with empty
> >>>plastic bottles, >>> plastic bags, old fridges and whatnot. >> There
> >>>are other places in Europe where you could get used to this sort of
> >>>thing. > Possibly. I've mainly been to western europe so far. and
> >>>Italy? Around 19941996 I was impressed by the piles of rubbish
> >>>interspersed with Nigerian prostitutes on rural roads on the southern
> >>>outskirts of Rome and by the locals who dumped rubbish and picked up
> >>>prostitutes on the way to work. One prostitute used to solicit from a
> >>>battered armchair on top of a pile of rubbish.
> >
> >> Yukk. However, I don't think I said anywhere that greece is the only
> >> country with that level of dirt.
> >
> > No, but you suggested that Spain or Portugal might be cleaner than
> > Greece. From my experience, that ain't the case. Nor is it the case for
> > NL, UK, France - or indeed anywhere else.
> I've been to the UK, in fact studied there for a year and spent one short
> holiday there almost every year since then. It is /much/ cleaner.
Well, I have to say that your experienc doesn't match mine. I suggest
you take a walk round Aberdeen on trash collection day and see if your
opinion changes after seeing what the seagulls do to trash bags.
B;
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