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#15 by Baldstu on 05 May, 2012 00:51
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And I wanna go to the UK. There should be a cultural exchange program for adults who want to experience other cultures. We could use ships. Meet in the middle and discuss things the other might experience. When it's over, we could meet again on the return trip to tell how our experience went. Would be awesome. Now if we could just figure out how to get our governments to pay for it.. (grin)
Yes agreed i dont think either of our governments wud cough up the readies for that . But will visit the US again , my other half is not keen at the moment . Sort of talking about Mexico -
#16 by tomgallagher on 05 May, 2012 05:47
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Mexico is a great country. A little rough around the edges but really great.
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#17 by Baldstu on 05 May, 2012 10:56
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Thanks Tom , both of us love culture and ruins and things , get very bored indeedsitting ona beach , so looking at it , never been there , a large bit of me wants to visit the US
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#18 by D.A.L.U.I. on 05 May, 2012 11:41
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Mexico is a great country. A little rough around the edges but really great.
Flash back about 15 years, wife & I go to Merida and the Yucatan, and the cab driver as we drive into town over cobblestone streets and colorful houses built right up to the sidewalks, says, "Bet you've never seen anything like this?" Poor guy, had to tell him that to us the whole town looked just like the French Quarter, Marigny, Bywater & Lower Garden District
They even had a version of our St Charles Avenue, just without our streetcars, the Paseo de Montejo, with grand mansions on either side. Over all, great place. But, we were both parts of the Spanish Colonial Empire--and it shows. The 200th is just the anniversary of our statehood, we were made part of the US in 1803, and founded in 1718, nearly 300 years ago. Not old by European and Middle Eastern standards, but respectible we think. On the light posts on Canal Street in the CBD, there are medallions on each of the four sides of the base--one says, Spanish Domination, another French Domination, the third Confederate Domination, and finally, American Domination--a strange way to put it I've always thought, "domination." Another "anniversary" for New Orleans, at least, this year too. One hundred fifty years since the City fell to the Yankees in the War of Northern Aggression in 1862.
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#19 by tomgallagher on 05 May, 2012 21:14
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War of Northern Aggression always makes me laugh. Wasn't it the South Carolinians that were the aggressors when they fired on and laid siege to the Federal military installation of Fort Sumter.