missile launching turrets every 25 yards around every border
Don't forget the gallows.
Plague = Revenue
There used to be the 'torture museum' in the basement of Poznan Stary Ratusz. A few cities had them around Europe. Tacky 'for-profit' private museums, basically a sideshow, with reconstructed iron maidens and racks.
It's not just about money. America is great... but that's where its attractions end. Europe is small but has countless tourist and artistic attractions. For example, yesterday we went to the theater and saw a play about Columbus (glorifying the United States). Who has a theater in the town where they are on vacation in the USA?
Who has a theater in the town where they are on vacation in the USA?
How many Polish towns have a bar? LOL
I'm guessing you mean 'city' btw, because nobody goes on vacation to a 'town' unless they're doing an 'outdoors' trip, hiking and so on, or it's a beach vacation. US cities have theatres, museums, galleries, culture. Some random small Polish town will probably just have a church, Zabka, apteka, maybe a really crappy pizza/kebab place and that's probably it.
Europe earns €800000000000 per year from this plague
The broke southern Europeans would really be struggling without it. They can complain about tourism all they like but we all know it's holding up their economies.
Nice. Has a look of Krushchev era architecture after they started reducing the ornamentation of the Stalin gothic style. There are a few buildings like that in PL and even more in Ukraine?
Europe is small but has countless tourist and artistic attractions
Some parts more than others, however yes, there is usually something to see.
@Alien, with "great", you actually mean "big", "large" (gross), right? Yes, I'd agree that our size and the grandeur of our natural wonders are our biggest selling point.
Europe has an ancient culture, unbroken within one people per country for a thousand years.
Europe has an ancient culture, unbroken within one people per country for a thousand years.
Eh? Bit of a generalisation.
The English, for instance, are a gigantically mixed up, mongrel people. Harried by vikings, colonised by Romans and Normans, a language that is basically a pick-and-mix of the greatest hits of French, Latin and Germanic, hardly any indigenous folk culture left, they are pretty much the opposite of a timeless monolith. The same can be said for many.
The Greeks, though, are basically the same people who built the Parthenon and set sail with Odysseus across the wine-dark sea. You can feel the unbroken continuity of their culture, it's impressive as hell.
Plenty. Unless by indigenous you mean pre-Roman and you'll find nothing that old in PLexcept for the few stone circles that they didn't deliberately destroy many decades ago at the behest of clergy. Plenty of old traditions in the U.K., some with origins older than PL.
The Greeks, though, are basically the same people who built the Parthenon and set sail..
No, perfectly sincere. Same language they've been using for millennia, living in the same ancient cities, same musical traditions (for one) and so on. They strike me as the closest you'll get in Europe to what Lyszko is describing.
@Plague, Britain's population traditionally consisted of solely those groups mentioned, scarcely a "mongrel breed"! Nowadays, I'll grant you 'tis no longer, same for Ireland. Scotland, Wales? Not sure.
They really haven't. And about the cities, the Greek world in the past was different, the population centres were elsewhere and much of what the middle classes of modern Greece say about their cultural links to Ancient Greece are a mix of wishful thinking, mythology and cultural cringe.
To find truly unchanged and indigenous? Probably impossible, however maybe Iceland (also a genetic mix) and some parts Scandinavia might do. That and the Mari-El, and the Khanti and Mansi in r*SSia might count however they're heavily r*Ssianised.
About the Greeks, there's one group within them, the Maniot people, who are perhaps closest to the Greeks from before the Frankish kingdom.
what the middle classes of modern Greece say about their cultural links to Ancient Greece
IIRC genetic testing suggested a _very_ large percentage of Greeks are hellenized Albanians (the same way a very large majority of Hungarians are magyarized Slavs and Germans).
Europe has that America doesn't have is the ancient and medieval history and the astounding.amount of great architecture..
True. Which is why I prefer Europe for a holiday. If I ever get to the US, it would be mainly the national parks I would be interested in visiting. Love a good hike. You guys have the AT. Maybe one day I could give parts of that a go.
I will be in Poland next month but I'm certainly not looking forward to the EES delays. Up to 6 hour queues at some airports :(
I'm flying into Krakow which apparently is one of the airports with queue problems. To be honest I really wish I'd left having a trip abroad this year. I guess it mostly depends on how many flights arrive at the same time.
Me too!
Happy holidays!!
Unless you go on the buss, the back door is opened first or people are..
Lviv is nice; probably nicer than any city currently in Poland. It's got a Polish feel, and Austrian mitteleuropa feel and a Ukrainian feel. Very tourist friendly too. I was there last week.
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