17 May
2014
17 May
'14
11:44 a.m.
More than a few Europeans live in 500 year old
_houses_, and 1000 year
old cities. So yes, that's probably the difference in perception.
This reminds me of a little sotry...
Oxford and Cambridge Universities have some beautiful old buildigns which
attract tourists. Alas a number of tourists seem to thing that thsi is
something like a film set, rather than an acutal university with studends
studying. And this can get rather annoying...
Anyway a couple fo such toruists, who happend to be American, wandered
into one of the old colleges, went up to the porter, and said 'Is this
college pre-war?' [ARGH!!]. The porter replied 'Sir, this college is
pre-America' :-)
Incidietnaly, I've visitied old churches here, and had the amazing
feeling that I am walking where people have walked for over 700 years.
-tony