It's kind of annoying at time - you go to a road, and a car will stop half-way down the road to let you cross. It'd just be faster if they went past and you walked behind them, but I regularly have cars coming to a halt and trying to wave me past :)
and the other day a car was trying to creep around the corner and ended up on the pedestrian crossing. Which meant I had to walk around the back of him. I got to the other side, he rolled down his window and apologise for blocking me :)
"Jay walking is accordingly fairly rare in Alberta, and can lead to some embarassment for the jay walker when cars suddenly stop while he or she tries to slip quickly across a city street. "
crap!! "In New Zealand, child pedestrians can be fined NZ$180 or adult pedestrians NZ$4000 for crossing a road without using a marked crossing if there is one within 20 meters, or crossing at a red light." - that's news to me!! $4000!
I heard once that there was a Russian game show (I don't know if it was true, but I like to think it was, maybe @VMAtm can answer?) but they had a show where you drove a getaway car, and had to try and outrun the police
OK so for anyone that's travelled beyond North America and Western Europe you know what I'm talking about.
Left: Romania, last year. Right: Turkey, last night.
They start popping up in the Balkans and of course they're everywhere by the time you get to Turkey and become totally unavoidable no ...
I love flying, always used to say that airports were the most exciting place for me :)
these days after ... many more flights, some aspects wear thin, but I still love them as they get me onto the planes which are then fun :)
oh we have another self promoter
good grief, 2 in the space of minutes
@adam and @car-rental-israel - if you come back to this site, I wanted to say welcome, but to let you know we've adopted a policy of deleting any answers from brand new people that are obviously self-promoting, without disclosure. You're welcome to join the site and function as a regular, but any further reference to your website should include a disclosure that you're affiliated.
" don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you. "
something along those lines ;)
but if that's too harsh, we'll ban you for a week ;) a month tops
The Great Wall (http://www.chinahighlights.com/greatwall/section/) is mainly composed of Jiayuguan Section, Badaling Section, Simatai Section and Shanhaiguan Section, of which the most famous section is Badaling Section, and Beijing has a number of famous sections of the Great Wall, which really ...
OK then...warning, this gets graphic.
The problem
North American toilets tend to be siphoning toilets - that is, the water-ways in these toilets are designed with slightly smaller diameters than a non-siphoning toilet, so that the water-way will naturally fill up with water, each time it is f...
There's always lists on the most popular countries. But in my travels, I've found going against the grain has been super rewarding - places like Chernobyl, in Ukraine, or the desert of Uzbekistan or the mountains of Tajikistan have been some of my travelling highlights.
Then reading a mostly fl...
sweet. I have a feeling it's got some problem with radians that I'm missing, but lack of sleep the last few nights has left me incapable of geographical mathematics, apparently ;)
i don't think "least visited countries" is open ended... it's totally objective... the one with the the fewest visitors. unless it's interpreted as "the 200 least visited countries in order" or something like that
@hippietrail The question is potentially answerable, the problem is the type of answers that those questions get - basically guesses without facts provided. Not the fault of the question though.
of course it's a valid grammar change - but in a question when i'm talking about the world being flat and santa/polar bears at the poles, i'm not sure grammar matters :)
I need advice on how to arrange going there.. and camp there... spend a night or two.. is there something like this? i mean a service like that offered by any agency....
OK so for anyone that's travelled beyond North America and Western Europe you know what I'm talking about.
Left: Romania, last year. Right: Turkey, last night.
They start popping up in the Balkans and of course they're everywhere by the time you get to Turkey and become totally unavoidable no ...
