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posted by [identity profile] ginnyvos.livejournal.com at 09:46pm on 02/12/2010
*grins* I love it!

O.O Holy cow! I knew my country was smaller than many US states, but that´s about 9 times as big! Wow. Just... Wow.

We manage to squeeze about 17.000.000 people on our 16.000 square miles though! :P And, if we're throwing around facts anyway, more bikes than we have people :D

Our public transport is pretty good, even if we do absolutely adore to complain about it (like now, we have maybe 2,5 cm of snow (which, is memory serves, is a little more than or about the same as one inch) and I took an hour longer to make a journey that should've lasted maybe 40 minutes).
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posted by [identity profile] clytemnaestra.livejournal.com at 01:30am on 03/12/2010
Wow that's a lot of people!! And it's awesome that you have more bikes than people :) I would love to ride mine more often, but it gets so hot during the year that I can't stand it. Lots of people do, but I can't even stand going outside during the hottest months.

I can sympathize with people getting screwy when it gets cold, though. Since it rarely rains or snows in this part of the state, people FREAK OUT when it starts raining. They drive like crazy people! They either freak out and drive so slow that they're a hazard, or the drive way too fast not realizing that their braking time isn't the same on wet roads. Bah!

So be careful when you do get your license because I'm sure that people are crazy drivers no matter what continent you live on! (I don't have a winter-themed icon, but Sensei looks cold in this one, so I guess it works!) :)
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posted by [identity profile] ginnyvos.livejournal.com at 07:14am on 03/12/2010
*giggles* works perfectly!

Hmmm it was the public transport that went all weird. You get a couple of snowflakes and suddenly it get's delayed all over the place. But yes, people also start to drive like traffic hazards. I had one of those idiots in front of my car when I was taking my driving exam. Handled it well enough I'd say! ^___^

*laughs* We have so much rain that people don't really seem to care. The idea of getting so crazy over driving in the rain sounds like a joke to me, but then I see how the Dutch drive in the snow and I completely believe you.

Hmmm I think I know what you mean about the summer being too hot. Some days in summer I hide inside here and than it's only about 30 degrees Celcius. I don't know how hot it gets there, but I'm sure it's hotter than that. I really don't handle heat well.
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posted by [identity profile] clytemnaestra.livejournal.com at 05:53am on 04/12/2010
I think if you handle a stressful situation really well - like an idiot driving in the snow - you have a pretty good chance on your driving exam. At least that's what I've heard from people here. I went through a course taught through my school, so I didn't take the official driving test, but rather the one officiated by the school teachers. So that was nice, because it was a bit less stressful than taking a driving test with a stranger! So I'm sure you got brownie points with your instructor :)

I heard that England was all clogged up because of the snow - sounds like a huge pain! And it even made the American news, so it must've been a pretty darn big storm!

I really don't know much about European geography other than the basic country outlines o.0 How close are you to the sea? Does that make it get really cold? In the summer months, it hovers anywhere from 37-44 degrees Celsius (100-112 degrees Fahrenheit) here. Gah!
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